What to eat at Millennium Festival?
In fact, as we all know, eating seafood is easy to cause diseases, and too much histamine in seafood can cause people's physical discomfort. A few people eat fresh fish or seafood because they naturally lack enzymes that decompose histamine, which can cause allergies and even asthma. In addition, seafood is mostly cold, and the temperature in the Millennium season is low, so it is not advisable to eat more, so as to avoid stomach ulcers caused by cold of the spleen and stomach. Suitable diets in the Millennium season include lotus porridge, gingko diced chicken and yam. These diets have the effects of clearing away lung-heat, moistening dryness, relieving cough and asthma, invigorating qi and blood, invigorating spleen and tonifying kidney.
What are the traditional cuisines of White Deer Festival? 1, brewing Bailu rice wine.
There is a custom of brewing Bailu rice wine in southern Jiangsu and old Nanjing, Zhejiang. In the past, when Bailu arrived in the rural areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year, every household made wine to entertain guests, and people often brought Bailu rice wine to the city. Bailu wine is brewed from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".
Yellow rice wine custom of Hunan Bailu. Every year on the White Dew Festival, every household entertains guests with white dew rice wine called "earth wine", which is sweet and warm and most suitable for autumn. Glutinous rice wine can promote gastric juice secretion, increase appetite and help digestion; It can also promote blood circulation and has a certain effect on hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis. For people who have no access to meridians, glutinous rice wine also has the function of dredging meridians.
2. Longan
There is a tradition in Fuzhou called "The Millennium must eat longan". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a great effect of supplementing the body. Longan has many functions, such as invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, nourishing blood, calming nerves, moistening skin and beautifying face, and can be used to treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases. A thousand years ago, longan was big, with a small sweet core and good taste. It is better to eat longan in a thousand years.
3. Bailu tea
Old Nanjing people like Bailu tea very much. At this time, the tea tree has experienced the summer heat, and it is an excellent period for its growth before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and mellow fragrance, which is especially loved by old tea customers.
4. Sweet potato
It is believed that eating sweet potatoes in the Millennium can prevent hyperacidity after eating sweet potatoes and shredded sweet potatoes all year round, so farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on the Millennium Festival in the past. After the Millennium, daily life and diet should be adjusted accordingly. In terms of diet, we should have all kinds of foods, mainly cereals, and add some potatoes. The dietary fiber of sweet potato can stimulate intestinal tract, enhance intestinal peristalsis, relieve constipation and detoxify, especially for senile constipation, and reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer.
5. Braised black-bone chicken (or duck)
Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places once had the custom of the Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (also known as "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). It is said that eating can nourish the body and get rid of the atmosphere (arthritis). These "ten kinds of white" are ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., which literally correspond to "white dew"
Dietary conditioning principles of Millennium solar terms
1, drink more porridge after getting up in the morning, such as sugarcane porridge, Polygonatum odoratum porridge, Radix Adenophorae porridge, raw porridge, Polygonatum odoratum porridge and so on.
2, should reduce spicy and sour, eat more sour fruits and vegetables, to nourish the liver.
3, it is appropriate to be sweet, you can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables that moisten the lungs and dryness, such as pears, persimmons, oranges, bananas, carrots, white gourd, lotus roots, tremella, sesame seeds and so on.
4, you can eat more chicken, duck, beef, pork liver, fish and shrimp, lotus seeds, jujube and other foods for nourishing.
5, diet should be light. Drink more boiled water, light tea, soybean milk, milk and other drinks.
White dew festival health recipe
1, kumquat radish drink: kumquat 5, radish 1/2, and proper amount of honey. Wash kumquat, remove seeds and mash. Wash radish, shred and juice. Mix kumquat puree with radish juice, add honey and mix well. Has the effects of soothing liver, regulating qi, clearing away dryness and moistening lung.
2. Coix seed water chestnut porridge: 50g of Coix seed, 0/50g of water chestnut/kloc, 0/00g of glutinous rice/kloc, 5g of dried tangerine peel. First, cut the water chestnut, put it into a casserole and add water to cook it, then throw it into cold water, then remove the shell and take the meat, and grind it into broken rice grains for later use. Soak Coicis Semen and glutinous rice and wash. Boil the washed glutinous rice in a boiling water casserole, then simmer slowly, add Coicis Semen and Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, add water chestnut when the rice blooms, and cook together until the rice is thick. Has the effects of soothing the liver, relieving depression, invigorating spleen and benefiting qi.
3, lotus seed cake: 500 grams of lotus seed meat, medlar, Ophiopogon japonicus, sugar, osmanthus. Grind lotus seed meat, Poria cocos and Ophiopogon japonicus into fine powder, add white sugar and osmanthus fragrans, mix well, and steam the cake in water. Has the effects of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, calming heart and strengthening spleen.
4, tremella medlar lotus seed jujube soup: tremella, medlar, jujube, lotus seed each 100 grams. Add water to the four flavors and cook them into a paste. Has the effects of detoxicating, nourishing yin and calming the nerves.
5. Stewed lean meat with fig: fig 10, lean meat 250g, yam15g, lily10g. Clean lean meat, cut into pieces, clean figs, yams and lilies, put them together in a casserole, add appropriate amount of water, boil over high heat, turn to low heat for about 2 hours, and add refined salt. Has the effects of clearing away heat, moistening lung, invigorating spleen and regulating qi.