Tomb-Sweeping Day's Custom Activities
play on the swing
This is the custom of ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day in China. Swing, that is, lift the rope, move. It has a very long history. It was originally called Qian Qiu, but later it was changed into a swing to avoid taboos. In ancient times, swings were made of branches and tied with ribbons. Later, it gradually developed into two ropes, a pedal swing. Playing swing can not only improve health, but also cultivate courage, which is deeply loved by people, especially children.
play football
Bow is a rubber ball, the skin of which is made of leather, and the ball is stuffed with wool. Cuju is kicking the ball with your feet. This is a popular game in ancient Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, it was invented by the Yellow Emperor with the original purpose of training warriors.
spring outing
Also called spring outing. It was called Tanchun and Xunchun in ancient times. March is clear, spring returns to the earth, and nature is full of vitality everywhere, which is a good time to go for an outing. People in our country have always maintained the habit of going for an outing in Qingming.
plant trees
Before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring is bright, the spring is bright, and the spring rain is falling. The planted seedlings have high survival rate and fast growth. Therefore, China has the habit of planting trees in Qingming since ancient times. Some people even call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. The custom of planting trees has been passed down to this day. 1979, the National People's Congress designated March 12 every year as China's Arbor Day. This is of great significance to mobilize people of all ethnic groups in China to actively carry out activities to green the motherland.
fly a kite
It is also Tomb-Sweeping Day's favorite activity. During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people not only wore it during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of colored lanterns is hung under the kite or on the wind-stabilizing stay, like twinkling stars, which is called "magic lamp". Someone used to put kites in the blue sky, then cut the strings and let the breeze send them to the ends of the earth. It is said that this can eliminate diseases and disasters and bring good luck to yourself.
Qingming health food
1. los
Snail meat is plump, delicate and delicious, and it is known as the "pearl in the plate". Rich in protein eggs, vitamins, essential amino acids and trace elements, it is a typical natural animal health food with high protein, low fat and high calcium. Snails bought in the market should be kept for three days. Drop a few drops of sesame oil or vegetable oil in the basin to let the snail discharge the muddy dirt in the intestinal cavity. Change the water several times a day, brush it with a brush, twist off the tail, blanch it, heat it at high temperature, fry it and stew it thoroughly.
2. Shrimp
"Yellow croaker in March, shrimp in April, and bitter gourd stew in May." As for Qingming shrimp, there was a poem that said: "The east wind blows rain all night, and fish and shrimp grow in Jiangxinshui." Just the clear sight of spring rain and the mouth-watering growth of river fresh. Now, Qingming Shrimp is at the turn of the old and the new. There is plenty of rain, and the new shrimp has not "dispersed in spring". Fortunately, you can even see shrimp seeds in your stomach.
Step 3: mussels
It is said that mussels before and after the Qingming Festival are as fat as snails. "Drink a bowl of light vegetable soup in spring, no prickly heat, no sores". The common practice in old Yangzhou is that mussels burn tofu and bacon burns mussels, so that eyebrows will fall off. It shows that mussels should eat well in spring, especially before Qingming. Because leeches and microorganisms in the water did not move frequently before Qingming, mussels were clean and fleshy, especially crisp and delicious.
4. Spinach
Spinach is a seasonal vegetable in spring, which has the functions of nourishing yin, moistening dryness, soothing the liver and nourishing blood, and has a good auxiliary treatment effect on hypertension, dizziness, diabetes and anemia caused by liver yin deficiency in spring. Another study by Harvard University found that eating spinach 2-4 times a week for middle-aged and elderly people can reduce the risk of retinal degeneration. Anemia patients can take spinach100g to make soup. People with blurred vision can take 500g of fresh spinach and 50g of sheep liver, put it into the sheep liver after boiling, cook it a little, then add spinach, add appropriate amount of salt, sesame oil and monosodium glutamate, and eat it after cooking.
5. Malantou
Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, Malantou is particularly fragrant and attractive. Many wild vegetables are planted in spring, and it is also spring when they are tender. For example, once Malantou passes through Tomb-Sweeping Day, it will gradually get old and cannot be chewed, so it is suitable for eating Malantou these days. The production of Malantou is very simple, just mix it with dried tofu and add sesame oil. Malantou is pungent and slightly cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. Suitable for health preservation in spring, it can not only supplement vitamins, relieve spring drowsiness, but also be very effective for common sore throat in early spring.
6.bracken
Pteridium aquilinum, also known as auspicious dish and dragon claw dish. Whenever the ice and snow melt and spring returns to the earth, it is the golden season for picking ferns. Pteridium aquilinum tastes crisp, tender and smooth, and tastes fragrant. You can often cook, stir-fry, marinate noodles and make buns. There are many ways to eat. Pteridium aquilinum is rich in nutrition, which has the functions of refreshing, removing greasy and helping digestion. Therefore, people call bracken "the king of wild vegetables" and "the delicacy of snow fruit". Fresh bracken has a heavy bitter taste. Before eating, you need to scald it with boiling water, and then soak it in cold water to remove the odor. Without this step, the entrance of bracken is bitter. Well-made fresh bracken tastes delicious and smooth, and with seasonings, it is a rare and excellent dining table. In addition, there is a popular way to eat fried shredded pork.
7. cereals
Everyone should eat cereal, such as oats, buckwheat, lentils, coix seed, peanuts, soybeans, coffee beans and sunflower seeds. These are seed plants. They are very nutritious. Especially for Qingming health, you can eat more grain soup, mix your favorite grains with soup at will, or cook porridge. Cereal food can nourish the liver, relieve annoyance, eliminate dampness, regulate the stomach, moisten the intestines, replenish deficiency and enhance resistance.
8.tremella fuciformis
Tremella is a tonic for civilians, but it can be compared with ginseng and bird's nest, and it is a good beauty food for women. Tremella fuciformis is often used to make sweet soup, and it is a rare health-care medicine for promoting diuresis, nourishing blood and nourishing yin, strengthening brain and refreshing, beautifying and rejuvenating skin, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence. And women with irregular menstruation and constipation can eat tremella soup.
9. Chinese yam
Yam is highly praised in Chinese medicine, because it can prevent cardiovascular diseases, keep blood vessel elasticity and avoid arteriosclerosis. At the same time, eating more yam can avoid fat deposition and reduce the causes of obesity. In addition, there is a substance called dopamine in yam, which can dilate blood vessels and promote blood circulation.
10. Leek
Leek is known as "intestine washing grass" and contains more crude fiber, which can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis and effectively prevent habitual constipation and intestinal cancer. During the Qingming Festival, spring vegetables are fragrant, and the human body has experienced the nourishment of a long winter. At this time, it is time to ingest some fresh and tender vegetables in the season, and at the same time let the stomach rest. You can also use its cellulose to accelerate the discharge of oil and toxins in the body and promote metabolism. It is an ideal diet food. In addition, leek is rich in cellulose, volatile essential oil, vitamins and other nutrients, and its bactericidal effect is obvious. Eating leeks in Tomb-Sweeping Day can not only help yang to grow hair, but also sterilize and diminish inflammation, stimulate appetite and reduce blood fat.
1 1, green dumplings
During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.
12, eggs
According to folk custom, Tomb-Sweeping Day has good health all year round after eating an egg. Tomb-Sweeping Day's eating eggs originated from the custom of forbidding fire in some areas in the pre-Qin period, and forbidding eating cold food for many days. Cooked eggs are a good food reserve to survive this period. Tomb-Sweeping Day can eat eggs to play on this day, which can be roughly divided into two types, one is "painting eggs" and the other is "carving eggs". Painted eggs can be eaten; And "carving eggs" is just for enjoyment.
Health taboos during Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Pay attention to "the disease enters from the mouth"
The changeable weather is easy to catch a cold, leading to tonsillitis, bronchitis and pneumonia; At this time, it is also the season of respiratory infectious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough, measles, chicken pox, meningitis and so on. Therefore, we should pay close attention to the weather changes, increase or decrease clothes, and try to go out of public places as little as possible, especially pay attention to "illness from the mouth".
Avoid eating "hair"
This solar term is also a time when many chronic diseases are easy to recur, such as arthritis, asthma and mental illness. Therefore, people with chronic diseases should avoid food that is easy to happen. The so-called "hair" refers to products that dispel wind and produce phlegm, send poison to help fire and help evil spirits, such as sea fish, shrimp, sea crab, pickles, bamboo shoots, mutton, cock and so on. And you can eat some cold food properly.
Suitable foods are japonica rice, sesame, peanut, adzuki bean, glutinous rice, quail, goose, mussel, snail, egg, leek, coriander, lettuce, yam, apple, orange, horseshoe, pear, peach and cherry. Healthy soup should be carrot and bamboo cane water, pork belly stewed with Chili, fish head stewed with Chuanxiong and Angelica dahurica, dog belly fish with leeks, pig's trotters with fresh Smilax glabra, eel with pickles, pork lean with catnip and so on.
Eat a regular diet, low in salt and eat more fruits and vegetables.
Eat regularly and quantitatively, and don't overeat. In spring, it is advisable to eat less acidic foods such as mutton, and appropriately "sweeten" that is, eat more sweets to keep healthy. But obese people should reduce sweets, limit calorie intake and eat more fruits and vegetables. For elderly patients with hypertension, special emphasis should be placed on low-salt diet, and potassium intake should be increased accordingly, such as eating more vegetables and fruits. These are also things that healthy people should pay attention to.
Qingming health "before tomorrow's tea"
Li Shizhen, a famous doctor in Ming Dynasty, admired tea most, especially "tea before Ming Dynasty". "Tomorrow tea" refers to the new tea picked and processed before Qingming every year, which has the effects of nourishing the liver and clearing the brain, resolving phlegm and eliminating polydipsia. As the saying goes, "I wake up easily this morning in spring", and drinking "tea before tomorrow" can refresh me. For example, Li Shizhen said, "Tea is bitter and cold, which makes people feel refreshed and not sleepy." Suitable teas are Chinese fir, Tieguanyin, Longjing and scented tea.