What to eat on the White Dew Festival
In fact, we all know that eating seafood is prone to disease, seafood contains excessive histamine will cause people to feel unwell, a few people because of the innate lack of enzymes to break down histamine, eat fresh fish or seafood now, will cause allergies, and even induced asthma. In addition, most of the seafood cool, white dew season temperature is lower, it is not appropriate to eat more, so as not to spleen and stomach cold, induced gastric ulcer. White Dew season suitable meals are lotus seed lily porridge, ginkgo chicken, yam, etc., these diets have a clear lungs and dry, cough and asthma, nourish the qi and blood, strengthen the spleen and kidney effect.
What are the traditional foods of the White Dew Festival 1, brewing white dew rice wine
Southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang old Nanjing have the custom of brewing white dew rice wine. In the old days, when the countryside around Suzhou and Zhejiang came to the White Dew every year, every family brewed wine to treat guests, and often people brought White Dew rice wine to the city. Bai Lu wine with glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains brewed, slightly sweet, so called "Bai Lu rice wine".
It is a custom in Hunan to drink rice wine at Bailu. Every year at the White Dew Festival, families are called "soil wine" White Dew rice wine to guests, sweet and warm, the most suitable for the fall. Glutinous rice wine can promote the secretion of gastric juices, improve appetite, and help digestion; it can also promote blood circulation, which has a certain effect on high blood fat and atherosclerosis. For people who can't get through the meridians, glutinous rice wine also has the effect of energizing the meridians.
2, longan
Fuzhou has a tradition called "white dew must eat longan" said. Folk meaning, in the white dew this day to eat longan has a great complement to the body's miraculous effect. Longan is beneficial to the spleen, nourish the blood and tranquilize the spirit, emollient beauty and other effects, can treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and many other diseases. White dew before the longan each large, small nuclei sweet taste good, so white dew eat longan is no better.
3, white dew tea
The old Nanjing people are very favored "white dew tea", this time the tea tree after the summer heat, before and after the white dew is the best period of its growth. White dew tea is neither as fresh as spring tea, not soaked, not as dry as summer tea bitter, but a unique sweet and fragrant, especially by the old tea drinkers love.
4, sweet potatoes
Folk believe that white dew eat sweet potatoes can make the whole year to eat sweet potatoes silk and sweet potatoes silk rice, will not send stomach acid, so the old farmhouse in the white dew festival to eat sweet potatoes as a habit. After the white dew, living and eating should be adjusted accordingly. In the diet to food variety, to cereal-based, increase some potato food. Sweet potato dietary fiber can stimulate the intestinal tract, enhance intestinal peristalsis, laxative detoxification, especially for senile constipation has a better efficacy, but also to reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer.
5, simmering black bone white hair chicken (or duck)
Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have the custom of Bai Lu Festival. Cangnan, Pingyang and other folk, people in this day to collect "ten kinds of white" (there are also "three kinds of white" argument), to simmering bone white hair chicken (or duck), it is said that after eating can nourish the body, to wind (arthritis). This "ten kinds of white" is ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., in order to correspond with the "white dew" literally.
White dew season dietary principles
1, get up in the morning and drink more porridge, such as sugar cane porridge, bamboo porridge, ginseng porridge, raw land porridge, yellow essence porridge, and so on.
2, you should reduce pungent and increase acid, eat more sour fruits and vegetables to nourish liver qi.
3, to sweet and light moisturizing is appropriate, can eat more fresh fruits and vegetables with moisturizing lungs and dryness, such as pears, persimmons, citrus, bananas, carrots, winter melon, lotus root, fungus, sesame seeds and so on.
4, you can eat more chicken, duck, beef, pork liver, fish and shrimp and lotus seeds, jujube and other food for tonic.
5, dietary regimen to light for appropriate. Appropriate more boiled water, light tea, soy milk, milk and other beverages.
White Dew Festival Recipes
1, kumquat radish drink: kumquat 5, radish 1/2, honey. The kumquat is washed and de-seeded, mashed. Radish washed, shredded juice. The kumquat puree, radish juice mix, into the honey mix, that is to become. There is the effect of dredging the liver, clearing dryness and moisturizing the lungs.
2, Job's tears rhombus porridge: 50 grams of Job's tears, 150 grams of rhombus, 100 grams of brown glutinous rice, 5 grams of peel. First, the horn chopped a knife, into the casserole with water cooked, swung up into the cold water, and then remove the shell to take the meat, crushed into crushed rice granules to be used. Job's tears, glutinous rice soaked and washed. Wash the glutinous rice into boiling water casserole boiling, turn to a small fire simmering, add Coix Seed, Chen Pi, to be cooked until the rice blossom, and then add the rhododendron, together with the rice cooked to rice extremely rotten, porridge can be eaten when thick. There are liver detoxification, spleen and qi effect.
3, lotus seed Poria cake: lotus seed meat, Poria, maitake 500 grams, sugar, cinnamon, appropriate amount. Lotus meat, poria, maitake *** research into fine powder, add sugar, cinnamon, mix well, water and steam cake into the face. There are yin and dry, Ning heart spleen effect.
4, ginkgo berry lotus jujube soup: ginkgo, wolfberry, jujube, lotus seeds 100 grams each. On the 4 flavors with water **** cooked into a paste. There is a detoxification, nourish Yin and tranquilize the efficacy of the spirit.
5, fig stewed lean meat: 10 figs, 250 grams of lean meat, 15 grams of Chinese mountain, 10 grams of lily. The lean meat washed, cut, figs, Huaishan, lily washed, together into the casserole, add the right amount of water, first boiled over high heat, and then simmered over low heat for about 2 hours, seasoned salt into. It has the effect of clearing heat and moisturizing the lungs, strengthening the spleen and regulating qi.