Although Xiaoman symbolizes the arrival of a bumper harvest, it is just the time when the green and yellow crops are not harvested. Therefore, in the past, many people had to eat bitter vegetables to satisfy their hunger. Bitter dishes have become a unique food custom of Xiaoman solar terms. There are many ways to eat bitter vegetables, such as stir-frying, cold salad, stir-frying meat, pickling, making soup and stuffing, which is an important reason for the formation of this folk custom.
Since Xiaoman, summer crops such as barley and winter wheat have borne fruit, and the seeds are gradually full, but not yet mature, so it is called Xiaoman. But at this time, because the climate will start to blow some extremely dry and hot winds, it is also one of the dangerous moments for crops.
These winds with high temperature and low humidity are not only harmful to crops, but also very easy to damage yin and body fluid, resulting in increasing body heat and "heat syndrome".
At this time, the bitter vegetables everywhere are the best choice to deal with fever. Bitter vegetables have the functions of clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. The dry and hot wind that often appears in Xiaoman often makes people suffer from dry and hot symptoms. At this time, bitter vegetables are good for the body.
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people in Ningxia like to cook bitter vegetables, wash them cold and mix them with salt, vinegar, spicy oil or garlic paste to make them cool and spicy, and eat steamed bread and rice, which greatly increases people's appetite. It is also useful to marinate bitter herbs in yellow rice soup, which tastes sour and sweet, crisp and refreshing. Some people also boil bitter herbs with boiling water and squeeze out bitter juice to make soup, stuffing, stir-fry and cook noodles, each with its own flavor.
You must blanch the bitter vegetables with boiling water first, so that oxalic acid can be removed and calcium can be absorbed. Ordinary people, patients with obesity, diabetes, icteric hepatitis, influenza, dry stool and other diseases can eat, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold can fast.
It's getting hotter and hotter after a short day. With the change of the weather, we should make timely adjustments in daily life and diet, and eat some bitter food in moderation, which not only has the effects of clearing away heat and cooling blood, but also helps digestion.
In fact, there is a huge family of bitter food. Vegetables include lettuce, bitter gourd, houttuynia cordata, bitter bamboo shoots, lettuce, Chinese kale, bitter chrysanthemum, etc., as well as dry and fresh fruits used as food and medicine, such as lotus plumule, mint leaves and bitter almond. However, it is not advisable to suffer too much, so as not to hurt the healthy qi in the human body and induce diseases.