This is called
Ou Chicken on the first day of August
Cook the chicken the night before, seal it in a jar and stew it. You can also add pickles and ginger sesame oil. , cauliflower, wolfberry and ginseng. Eat them all before the sun comes up the next morning. However, the person who eats the chicken must be the hostess of the house, and the woman has to sit silently on the doorstep of her house.
Put a sprig of pig food in the belly of a whole chicken. After the chicken is stewed, the taste of the pig food will also be mixed with the chicken. After the Beginning of Autumn, when the weather turns cooler, a woman eating chicken stewed with pig food and vegetables can warm her spleen and stomach, cure her illness, and her health will be good throughout the winter.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, whether you are weak or strong, autumn is a good season for dietary supplements. Chicken has the effects of warming the middle and replenishing qi, replenishing essence and marrow, replenishing the five internal organs, replenishing deficiencies, strengthening muscles and bones, strengthening the mind and calming the mind, enhancing the body's immunity, and prolonging life. It can be used for fatigue, epigastric pain, edema, etc. caused by spleen and stomach qi and yang deficiency. It can also be used to treat postpartum lactation, weakness and dizziness. It also has a good auxiliary effect on frequent urination, deafness, lack of sperm and coldness caused by insufficient kidney essence. Therefore, drinking soup and eating meat is one of the best foods for supplementation. But eating chicken as a supplement is not suitable for everyone. Chicken is rich in protein, so in order to avoid increasing the burden on the kidneys, patients with uremia should not eat it; chicken is warm in nature, so in order to avoid adding heat, patients with high fever and those with noisy stomach heat should not eat it; the content of phosphorus in chicken is high, so in order to avoid affecting iron supplements For better absorption, do not eat chicken when taking iron supplements. In addition, when using chicken to supplement, you need to pay attention to the different effects of men and women: male chicken is yang in nature and has a strong warming and tonic effect, and is more suitable for patients with yang deficiency and weak qi; female chicken is yin and is more suitable for pregnant women and the elderly and infirm. And for those who are chronically ill and physically weak.
Ouji:
The word Ou for Ouji is a pictophonetic character, and there is a word tile next to it, indicating that the utensil used for Ouji is an earthen pot. The specific method is: put a three-year-old mother into a pot. Slaughter the chicken, put the whole chicken into the pot, add an appropriate amount of water, put in Chinese medicinal materials such as angelica root, dangshen, yam and so on, seal it with mud, pile sawdust or rice bran around the pot and light it, simmer it overnight, and eat it after dawn.
On the first day of the eighth lunar month, some hometowns have the custom of eating chicken, also called the Greedy Wife Festival. In the old days, rural housewives had parents-in-law to honor, children to raise, and good things to their men secretly. If you stay, you will only suffer yourself. But on the first day of August, you can have a chicken to yourself, which somewhat reflects the husband's love for his wife. Even though it is only for one day, it also shows the important status of a woman in the family.
In some places, all the chicken on this day is given to children. It is said that eating it will bring good luck. Mostly because of the origin of giving food to children when they were poor, adults were reluctant to eat it and left it to their children.