Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday, usually celebrated around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. The traditional Qingming Festival in China began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Here take a look at the food and precautions of Qingming Festival that I have organized for you, welcome to read, just for reference.
Qingming Festival food
1. snail
snail meat rich and delicate, delicious flavor, known as the "pearl in the dish" reputation. It is rich in protein eggs, vitamins and essential amino acids and trace elements, is a typical high protein, low fat, high calcium natural animal health food. The market to buy back the snail should be put to rest for three days, a few drops of sesame oil or vegetable oil in the basin, so that the snail exhausts the intestinal cavity of the muddy dirt, change the water several times a day, with a brush to brush clean, stranded tail, blanch high temperature after heating, frying, stewing through.
2. shrimp
"March yellowtail April shrimp, May Sanli stewed bitter melon." On the Qingming shrimp, there was once a poem describing this: "a night of east wind blowing rain, full of new river water long fish and shrimp". Said it is the Qingming spring rain, the river grows mouth-watering scene. Now "Qingming shrimp" is in the old and new time, the rain is enough, the new shrimp is not "scattered spring", good luck and even see the shrimp belly with shrimp seeds.
3. Mussels
It is said that, like snails, mussels before and after the Qingming Festival are the most fertile. "Drink a bowl of mussel soup in the spring, no prickly heat and no sores". A common practice in old Yangzhou was mussels cooked with tofu and mussels cooked with salted meat, so fresh that your eyebrows would fall off. All indicate that mussels should be eaten in the spring, especially before the Qingming Festival. Because before the Qingming water leeches, microorganisms have not been frequent activities, and therefore this time of the mussels is the cleanest, the meat is also the most plump, especially crispy and delicious.
4. Spinach
Spinach for the spring seasonal vegetables, with nourishing yin and dry, soothe the liver and blood, etc., on the spring due to the lack of liver due to hypertension, dizziness, diabetes, anemia, etc. have a better auxiliary therapeutic effect. Harvard University, another study found that: eat 2-4 times a week spinach middle-aged and elderly people, can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration. Anemia can take 100 grams of spinach soup. Blurred vision can take fresh spinach, sheep liver 500 grams, the water will be boiled into the sheep liver, a little roll under the spinach, and add the right amount of salt, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, can be eaten after cooking.
5. Malan head
Every Qingming season, the special flavor of Malan head is the most attractive. Many wild vegetables are grown in the spring and are most tender in the spring, like Malantou once after Qingming, it will gradually become old and chewy, so these days are the most suitable for eating Malantou. Malantou is the easiest to prepare, as long as it is mixed with dried tofu and drizzled with sesame oil. Malan head is pungent and cool, slightly cold, with heat detoxification, cool blood to stop bleeding, the effect of dampness and swelling, suitable for spring health consumption, not only to supplement vitamins, to ease the spring sleepiness, but also on the common sore throat in early spring is very effective.
6. Fern
Fern is also known as auspicious dishes, dragon claw dishes. Whenever the ice melts, spring season, it is the golden season to pick ferns. The fern is crisp and tender, smooth and gluten-free, with a warm flavor. Home can be choked, fried, brined under the noodles, made into a bun filling, etc., eating method is very much. Fern is rich in nutrients, refreshing, greasy, digestive effect, therefore, people say fern is "mountain wild vegetables", "snow fruit mountain treasures". Fresh fiddleheads have a heavy bitter flavor. Before eating, it needs to be scalded in boiling water and then dipped into cool water to remove the odor. Without this step, the fern will taste bitter. Properly prepared fresh fiddleheads have a smooth and refreshing flavor, and when mixed with ingredients, they make a rare and excellent wine dish. In addition, there is a more popular way to eat is fried shredded meat.
7. grains
Qingming Festival health to eat cereals, such as oats, buckwheat, lentils, barley, peanuts, soybeans, coffee beans, sunflower seeds and so on. These are seed plants, nutrients are very rich, especially in the Qingming health can eat more grains soup, feel free to use their favorite grains with soup, or porridge can be. Cereals can nourish the liver, in addition to annoyance, dampness, and stomach, moisturize the intestines, make up for the deficiency, enhance resistance.
8. Silver fungus
Silver fungus is a civilian tonic, but can be comparable to ginseng, bird's nest, etc., is a woman's face food. Silver fungus is often used to cook sweet soup, is a rare water seepage, blood nourishing Yin, tonic brain refreshing, beauty rejuvenation, tonifying the kidney and strong essence of health care drugs. And women with menstrual disorders and constipation can consume silver fungus soup.
9. Yam
Yam in Chinese medicine has excellent praise, because yam can prevent cardiovascular disease, keep blood vessels with elasticity, to avoid atherosclerosis, while eating more yam can avoid fat deposition, reduce the causes of obesity. In addition, there is a substance called dopamine in yam, which can expand blood vessels and promote blood circulation.
10. leek
leek has a "wash bowel grass" said, it contains more crude fiber, can enhance gastrointestinal motility, can effectively prevent habitual constipation and intestinal cancer. Qingming time, when the spring vegetables fragrant season, the human body experienced a long winter of nourishment, at this time should be intake of some seasonal fresh green vegetables, in the gastrointestinal rest at the same time, but also borrow its fiber to accelerate the body fat and toxin discharge, promote metabolism. Is a more ideal weight loss food. In addition, leeks are rich in fiber, volatile essential oils and a variety of vitamins and other nutrients, its bactericidal effect is obvious, Qingming Festival food leeks to help Yang, promote the effect of hair growth, but also sterilization, anti-inflammatory, appetite, lowering the role of blood lipids.
Ching Ming dietary considerations
One: pay attention to the "disease enters by the mouth"
And the changeable weather is easy to make people cold and flu, tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia; at this time and respiratory infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, Whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, epidemic meningitis and other seasons, so we should pay attention to the weather changes, increase or decrease the clothes, as well as minimize access to the public **** place, pay particular attention to the "disease from the mouth".
Second: avoid eating "hairy things"
This season is also a variety of chronic diseases are prone to relapse, such as arthritis, asthma, mental illness, and so on, and therefore people with chronic illnesses should avoid eating easy to eat food, the so-called "hairy things", from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine refers to the movement of wind and phlegm, hair poison to help fire and evil products, such as sea fish, sea shrimp, sea crabs, pickles, bamboo shoots, hairy bamboo shoots, mutton, rooster, etc., can be appropriate to eat some cool food, so the "Cold Food Festival" also has a certain reason for health.
The appropriate food is round-grained rice, sesame, peanuts, red beans, glutinous rice, quail, goose, mussels, snails, eggs, leeks, parsley, lettuce, Chinese mountains, apples, oranges, hoofs, pears, peaches, cherries and so on. Nutritious soup is suitable for carrot and bamboo cane water, pepper boiled pork belly, chuanxiong dahurica stewed fish head, leeks rolled dog maw fish, fresh earth poria boiled pig show, salted cabbage rolled yellow sand clams, cat's claw grass boiled pork lean meat, and so on.
Three: regular diet, low salt, more fruits and vegetables
Diet must be regular, not overeating. It is advisable to eat less lamb and other acidic foods, can be appropriate to "increase sweet" that is, more sweets, in line with the spring nourishing opportunities. But obese people should correspondingly reduce sweets, limit calorie intake, eat more fruits and vegetables, hypertension in the elderly should be particularly emphasized low-salt diet, corresponding increase in potassium intake, such as more vegetables, fruits and food. These are the same healthy people to pay attention to.
Fourth: Qingming health "pre-ming tea"
The famous Ming Dynasty doctor Li Shizhen in the Qingming season health most respected is tea, especially "pre-ming tea". "Mingqian tea" refers to the new tea picked and processed every year before the Qingming Festival, there is a liver and clear eyes, phlegm in addition to the effect of thirst. As the saying goes, "spring sleep does not wake up", drinking "pre-mingming tea" has the effect of refreshing and waking up the brain, such as Li Shizhen said, "tea bitter and cold, so that people are refreshing the mind, do not faint and do not fall asleep, the function of this tea also." Tea for single fir, Iron Goddess of Mercy, Longjing and flower tea. This festival is also easy to stomach and intestinal discomfort, in recent years, people to three flowers milk rushing Pu'er tea method to healthy stomach, stomach disease people may wish to try.
Historical allusions to the Qingming Festival
Qingming Tree
This is a rainless Qingming, the first warm and cold.
Zhao, who had been sleeping for days, suddenly woke up in the early morning, and his children and grandchildren were surprised.
This is a lonely grave without a monument, and the grave soil is newly cultivated.
Qingming tree Zhao was helped to stand in front of the grave, kneeling behind her children and grandchildren. The fire paper burning in the grave kiln whistling and dancing. Like a half-century of reminiscing about that distant and familiar story.
A newlywed soon to have a pregnant wife, the beloved husband sent out of the Daba Mountain, sent to the front line of the anti-Japanese war, the turn of the war for several years, no news. However, what they found was a hand-stitched shirt full of bullet holes and a shiny medal. Mother and son did not make any request to the troops and returned to their hometown with tears in their eyes. The mother, with her eternal longing for her husband, and the son, with his lifelong regret of never having seen his father, buried a coffin with only two pieces of remains.
A lonely grave protrudes from a nameless and barren hill in the Daba Mountains, lonely and desolate. And since the grave, every Qingming, the deserted mountain next to the lonely grave will be more than a few newly planted pines and cypresses. Year after year, never stop. I don't realize that fifty years have passed. Bald mountain has long been covered by green trees, the lonely grave is always covered by pines and cypresses. The big trees in the sky and the newly planted seedlings, forming a forest belt with a clear annual cycle. Undulating mountains and forests but failed to hide Zhao's life of bitterness, ups and downs and ageless complex.
"Zhao, I'm here again, bringing our children and grandchildren to plant Qingming trees. Time passes so slowly, it's not easy to see you once a year. It's hard to see you once a year. I almost couldn't make it today, but I'm sure I'll come sooner or later. I told you that you will not be lonely and forgotten. With these Qingming trees with you, you are not alone. Time flies. In the blink of an eye, even our son has become a grandfather. Zhao brother ah, my life is also really enough ...... not to say, I know you do not like to hear that sad things. Say something else!" Zhao whispered to herself. Fire paper gradually burned out, paper ash gently flying up with the wind.
This rainless Qingming, a lonely grave around a few more newly planted pines and cypresses. One of them is a tree planted by an old woman in her eighties.
The next year's Qingming Festival was rainy, and there was a new grave next to the Qingming tree.
This is the first time I've ever seen this tree.