Don’t lie down on the day of spring, sit or stand up and walk: this means that spring warms the earth, this day is the moment when Yang Qi begins to rise, you should stand or sit to welcome the New Year With the arrival of the Spring Festival, it is a good habit for healthy people to welcome the Spring Festival. There are many folk customs to welcome the Spring Festival. I still support inheriting the valuable ones. It's spring today. I went upstairs to bathe in the sunshine and personally feel the warmth of the spring earth. I feel really relaxed and relaxed. I hope my friends will inherit this habit. I suggest you go to Tiandi Park to absorb the fresh air and feel the nature. , ushering in spring and seeking good luck for the new year.
Drawing spring is a traditional custom in my country, and it is also the common name for the beginning of spring among the people. It is customary to eat spring cakes during the spring break. In addition, you can also eat spring rolls, spring plates, radishes and other foods. However, There are also many taboos in the traditional solar term of spring.
What to eat in spring
1. Spring cakes
The Tang Dynasty's "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" records: "In spring, eat reeds, spring cakes, and lettuce, No. ' "Dish plate'." It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty had already begun to try spring dishes and eat spring cakes. The so-called spring cake, also called lotus leaf cake, is actually a kind of hot noodle pancake - use two small pieces of water, grease the middle with oil, roll it into a pancake, and peel it into two pieces after it is cooked. Spring pancakes are used to wrap vegetables, including cooked and stir-fried vegetables.
2. Spring Plate
Spring Plate is also called "Five Spicy Plate", which is made of five kinds of spicy lettuce. "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Five pungent vegetables are the pungent and tender vegetables of onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum, mustard, mixed with and eaten on New Year's Day and in the spring, with the meaning of welcoming the new year." This custom spread to the Tang and Song Dynasties. , gold, yuan. For example, Yelu Chucai of the Yuan Dynasty wrote a poem called "Making a Poor Spring Plate in the Spring Station", which mentioned using lotus root, peas, green onions, wormwood, leeks and vermicelli to make a spring plate.
3. Spring rolls
In addition to spring cakes, spring rolls are also a festive delicacy that people often eat in spring. Spring rolls evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring dishes on spring days. There was a kind of "rolled pancake" in the Song Dynasty, which was a transitional type between spring pancakes and spring rolls. In the Yuan Dynasty's "Complete Works of Household Necessities", there is a record of rolling spring pancakes wrapped in fillings and deep-fried before being eaten. By the Qing Dynasty, the name spring rolls had appeared.
4. Radish
After spring, the temperature gradually rises, and people’s yang energy rises step by step. The Chinese people who pay attention to food supplements have chosen radish with spicy and sweet radiance. Food with special characteristics to allow the body to adapt to the weather. Su Dongpo once wrote a poem: "The roots of the radish still contain morning dew, and the east garden is covered with frost and snow in autumn. The radish will bear children and have grandchildren." Li Shizhen praised the radish even more, thinking that "both its roots and leaves can grow, but When cooked, it can be used as sauce, soybean, vinegar, sugar, wax, or rice. It is the most beneficial among vegetables. "Radish also has medicinal properties such as expectorant, ventilation, and cough relieving." This may be the original intention of the ancients who advocated eating radishes during spring.
5. Spring bamboo shoots
When it comes to eating spring, spring bamboo shoots must be mentioned. Spring bamboo shoots are crisp, tender and delicious, and can be chewed to bring out the fragrance and sweetness. They are known as the "first vegetarian food". Eating bamboo shoots has the functions of nourishing yin, replenishing blood, resolving phlegm, digesting, facilitating bowel movements, improving eyesight, etc., and has a very good auxiliary effect in preventing and treating increased blood lipids, hypertension, coronary heart disease, obesity, diabetes, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids.
6. Honey
The sweet honey water is called "the first water of spring". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that honey is sweet in taste and enters the spleen and stomach meridians, which can replenish qi, moisturize the intestines and relieve constipation. Because honey contains a variety of minerals, vitamins, and has the function of moisturizing the lungs and detoxifying, it can enhance human immunity and is the most ideal tonic in spring. Therefore, in spring, if you can drink 1 to 2 spoons of honey every day, take it with a cup of warm water or add milk, it will have a nourishing effect on the body.
Taboos about springtime
1. You cannot return to your parents’ home
Spring is the beginning of the year. In ancient times, when a woman got married, she belonged to her husband’s family, so she could not return to her parents’ home. The luck of the mother-in-law's family is brought back to the mother's family. Then, spring returns to her mother's family. When spring comes next year, she will get married again. All these are unreasonable statements. Today, men and women have independent personalities and there is no need to stick to these nonsense. When I go back to my natal family in the spring, I will be as close to my natal family as my mother-in-law.
2. Not seeing a doctor
If you don’t see a doctor on a spring day, it means you will have no good luck throughout the year. This statement is just to seek good luck, just like not seeing a doctor on the first day of the new year. It doesn't matter if you have a minor problem and delay it for a while, but don't you want to see a doctor for a serious illness? People have the energy of the five elements, and it is a normal day for people to get sick due to the warmth of spring. Going to the doctor is a responsibility for the body. Don't be rigid in saying this. It is the last word to take good care of the disease and stay healthy.
3. Not getting a haircut
If you don’t get a haircut on a spring day, it will be unlucky to get a haircut. Regarding this taboo, it is worth considering. Hair is the vegetation of the human body. When spring comes, the vegetation is born, and it is not in line with the laws of heaven and earth to harm the newly born vegetation. Besides, there are 365 days a year, why? Do you have to choose this day to get a haircut? This habit should be adhered to. This is to remind the world that everyone must follow the five elements of nature in everything they do!
4. Don’t lie down
Because at this time the yang energy begins to rise, you should stand or sit solemnly to welcome the arrival of the beautiful moment; because at this time the yang energy begins to rise, you should stand Or sit solemnly to welcome the arrival of beautiful moments and seek good luck for the new year.
5. Don’t quarrel
Don’t quarrel, say dirty words, don’t engage in verbal quarrels, be harmonious and cheerful, and welcome the arrival of spring. This is a good tradition and a virtue. Spring is the beginning of the year. On this first day, the emotions are mixed and people tend to be emotionally unstable. If you forget your virtues on this day, I don’t know how many days you will remember in that year. This is on I would like to remind everyone to keep in mind the good tradition of our nation. The word "Spring" means that the whole year will be unlucky, troublesome, and everything will be unfavorable. Therefore, I advise my friends to adjust themselves on the Spring Day and welcome the new year happily.
6. Don’t move
Don’t move on spring days. My understanding is that this habit should be followed, and friends who are interested in Yi studies should also be careful not to choose the time of the handover, the atmosphere is mixed, and it is naturally not suitable to move. At the beginning of the year, there will be turmoil and relocation , How can we have a stable life in the new year? We must believe in the movement of the sun and the moon, the flow of the five elements, and the mysterious connotation of "one" in the number. Those who conform to the heaven and earth, and the harmony between heaven and man, will inevitably be blessed by God, and good luck will not be unfavorable.