Grain rain, is the last of the spring season, in agricultural production, this time the temperature rise accelerated, precipitation increased significantly, it is the most conducive to the growth of cereal crops season. The following is my traditional food and health principles of the rainy season for you to organize, I hope to help you.

What traditional food to eat during the valley rain festival

1, eat toon

The proverb says: "Before the rain toon buds tender incomparable, after the rain toon buds raw wood body". Before and after the rain, it is a good time to eat toon, especially in the northern region, the rain to eat toon, is the most seasonal golden dishes.

2, drink Guyu tea

Folk proverb "Guyu Guyu, tea on the rain", Guyu is the time to pick tea. Valley rain before the picking of tea tender and fragrant, the flavor of the best, so the valley rain tasting new tea, along into the habit.

3, eat cilantro

"Ching Ming break snow, rain break frost", 15 days before and after the rain and the last 3 days of Ching Ming, the spleen is in a period of exuberance. Chinese medicine believes that cilantro is warm and sweet, can strengthen the stomach and eliminate food, diuretic and laxative, and have sweating through the rash, eliminating food and lowering the qi, applicable to colds, indigestion and so on. Eating cilantro in spring can disperse the cold, especially when the spring cold is the most suitable.

4, rice

Every year during the rainy season, Zhaoxing Dong village has "eat rice, playing face, sowing rice" custom. On the day of the rain, young men and women fully express their love. Young men will go to the girl's home to throw the bamboo basket, to ask for rice, to go the more people, the girl's family more face, it is the local farming culture and marriage customs of the double symbolic expression.

Gu Yu season health principles

1, usually drink more water

Drinking water can increase the circulating blood volume, is conducive to nourishing the liver and metabolic waste excretion, and can reduce the damage to the liver of the toxic substances. In addition, hydration is also conducive to glandular secretion, especially the secretion of bile and other digestive juices.

Drinking fragrant flower tea in spring can help distribute the winter accumulation of cold in the body, and promote the body's Yang Qi hair, stagnation evacuation. Drinking tea in moderation can also improve the spirit of sleepiness, but the spring should not be greedy cold drinks.

2, the diet should be light

By the winter of the cream of the flavor into the warm and bland, the diet should be warm, avoid cold. In animal food, should eat less fatty foods such as fat, because greasy food after eating easy to produce a sense of satiety, the human body will also produce fatigue phenomenon.

People with cold stomachs can often eat some ginger to drive away the cold and warm the stomach; people with asthma, you can take some ginger honey water to moisturize the dryness of the asthma; people with chronic bronchitis, you should abstain from eating or eating less spicy food. Others should not eat more spicy hot stimulating food, so as not to help the fire hurt.

3, eat more vegetables

People after the winter, most of the many vitamins, inorganic salts and trace elements intake is insufficient, such as the spring people often stomatitis, stomatitis, tongue inflammation, night blindness and some skin diseases.

Therefore, with the arrival of spring and a variety of fresh vegetables on the market, people must eat more fresh vegetables, in order to nutritional balance, health.

4, more sweet and less acid

Spring in the liver's excretory function is in one of the most exuberant season, so we have to eat some of the inhibition of the liver gas of the food, such as some of the acidic food, which has a convergence of the role of regaining the inhibition of the liver gas has a very good effect. But if the liver yin deficiency of the crowd, because less acidic food, to prevent liver qi overgrowth. Spring should eat calm food, such as jujube, not only can strengthen the spleen and stomach, but also can nourish yin and blood effect, and yam is also a good spring diet, it has a healthy spleen and qi, tonifying the role of the kidney and essence.

5, eat more fruit

Fruit is not only rich in high nutritional value plant, but also can enhance our body's resistance. Spring is part of the rainy season, the weather is unpredictable, prone to cold and flu season, eat some fruit, can help us to strengthen the body, improve immunity. For example: bananas, strawberries, apples, cherries and so on.

Food Culture of Guyu

Every year on April 20, it is a fishermen's festival in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. The festival originated from the Grain Rain Festival. In China's northern coastal areas of fishermen, over the Guyu Festival has been more than two thousand years of history, to the Qing Dynasty Daoguang years (1821) changed its name to Fishermen's Festival. Because of the rain this day, the fishermen along the coast of Shandong to pray for the blessing of the sea god, safe at sea, a good harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today's affluent Rongcheng fishermen, in the rain this day, held a grand "sea" activities, to the sea goddess toast, and then set sail to sea fishing.

In the old days, Linfen, Shanxi, the day of rain painted a Tianshi charm pasted on the door, called the "forbidden scorpion". Shaanxi Fengxiang area of the scorpion ban spell charm, printed on wood, visible demand is very large. It is printed with the following words: "In the middle of March of the rainy season, the scorpion shows off its power. Chicken with a mouth, poisonous insects into water ......", the picture in the center of the cock with a worm, and a large scorpion under the paw. There is a big scorpion under its claws. The painting has a spell printed on it. The saying that the rooster cures the scorpion has been circulating in the folklore for a long time. Magic novel "Journey to the West" fifty-five, the Monkey King piggyback can not defeat the scorpion spirit, Guanyin also know that he can not be close. So she asked the Monkey King to ask the Pleiadian Stargazer, and the result was a success. The Pleiadian Stargazer is a large rooster with two crowns. The book describes that the Pleiadian Stargazer appeared as a big rooster, and the rooster called out to the scorpion spirit, and the scorpion spirit instantly appeared in its original form, which was a pipa-sized scorpion. The rooster called out again, the scorpion spirit was soft and died on the hillside. Shandong folklore also banned scorpions. Qing dynasty Qianlong six years "xiajin county" records: "rain, Zhu sand book charm ban scorpions." The folklore of "banning scorpions" reflects people's desire to drive away pests and desire for a good harvest and peace of mind.

In ancient times, there was a "go Guyu" custom, Guyu this day, young women to go to the village string of relatives, some to the field to walk around and come back.

Southern Guyu tea picking custom, legend has it that Guyu tea on this day will clear fire, evil spirits, eyesight and so on. So no matter what the weather, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea back to drink.

Northern rain food toon custom, before and after the rain is the toon listed season, when the toon mellow and refreshing high nutritional value, there is a "rain before the toon tender as silk" said. Toon has to improve immunity, stomach, gas, diarrhea, emollient, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, insecticidal effect.

Shaanxi Baishui County, the rain festival worship Cangjie custom, "rain festival Cangjie", is since the Han Dynasty since the circulation of thousands of years of folk traditions.