Argument 2: On Halloween, ghosts go home to visit relatives through holidays. The ancient book says: man is yang, and ghost is yin; The earth is yang and the water is yin. Unfortunately, I couldn't cross the Nai River, so I dragged my soul across the river with the duck, so I ate the duck instead of the chicken.
Statement 3: Ducks are used for worship. When you worship your ancestors, you should use ducks to carry paper money and clothes across Naihe Bridge, so you must eat ducks on Halloween.
Folklore experts believe that the reason why ducks are eaten in the Mid-Autumn Festival is because the Mid-Autumn Festival is the season of ducks, which happens to be a sacrifice and duck blood is also used for worship.
Before rice was planted in the countryside, every household would buy some ducks to raise. After cutting rice, they usually put ducks in rice fields and let them eat millet and earthworms in the fields. When planting late rice, farmers began to kill ducks for the festival in order to reward themselves. As time goes on, people are used to eating ducks on this day.
Duck meat has high nutritional value. Protein, B vitamins and vitamin E have more meat than other livestock. The content of fat and carbohydrate is moderate, and the fat is evenly distributed throughout the body. Fatty acids in duck meat are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low-carbon saturated fatty acids, which are beneficial to health.
1, protect your heart Duck meat is rich in nicotinic acid, which is one of the two important coenzymes in human body and has a good protective effect on heart patients such as myocardial infarction, so eating duck meat can protect the heart.
2. Duck meat is rich in B vitamins and vitamin E, which can effectively resist beri, neuritis and various inflammations, as well as anti-aging effects.
3. Fatty acids in duck meat are only unsaturated fatty acids, and their chemical composition is similar to that of olive oil, which has the function of lowering cholesterol and is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
4. Chinese medicine believes that duck meat is cold and belongs to spleen, stomach, lung and kidney meridians, which can greatly replenish deficiency, nourish yin of five internal organs, clear away deficiency and heat, enrich blood and promote blood circulation, nourish stomach and promote fluid production, clear away heat and strengthen spleen, and can cure physical deficiency, physical deficiency after illness, malnutrition and edema.