The custom of Hainan Mid-Autumn Festival is to eat chicken dung to keep safe and bless?

The Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month is one of several important folk festivals in China. In Hainan, when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, people will burn paper and hang lanterns to worship their ancestors, and at the same time, they will eat a kind of food called "chicken manure vine", which is said to keep peace and increase blessings. Although the name is not very elegant, this custom has been circulating in Hainan for a long time. Today's almanac will be introduced to you.

In Hainan, Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Ghost Festival, lasts for half a month from the first day to the fifteenth day of July. People will burn paper and put lanterns in memory of their ancestors. Because of its special taste, Paederia japonica is also selected as a sacred object to ward off evil spirits in Hainan. Therefore, Qionghai people eat chicken excrement and rattan at the beginning of July every year, hoping to keep peace and add happiness.

Paederia japonica can be said to be a plant that can obviously eat by its face value, but people's impression of it is often destroyed by its unique name and smell. That's right. Paederia japonica is called Paederia japonica because its leaves have a faint smell of chicken excrement after being crushed.

However, Paederia japonica can actually be used as medicine. As a vine, Paederia asiatica likes to grow in warm and humid bushes and has strong vitality. Its leaves are rubbed by hand, and it smells like chicken excrement at first, so it is named chicken excrement vine. But I have long heard that there is a refreshing smell.

The root of Paederia asiatica has the functions of expelling wind, relieving cough, eliminating phlegm, stopping diarrhea and treating common cold. Paederia asiatica has the functions of clearing away heat, diminishing inflammation, detoxifying, moistening lung and refreshing brain, and is called ginseng by the people. Making soup with leaf powder can cure cough. Its potato pieces can cure blood consumption. Leaves can also cure dysentery, its tender stems and leaves can be steamed, and its stem juice is sweet and can be smoked! The juice of the fruit of Paederia japonica can cure the bite of poisonous insects and be applied to the affected area. It can also be used as a chilblain medicine.

In recent years, with the enhancement of people's awareness of health care, especially the understanding of the nutritional value of wild pollution-free plants, some nutritious local foods have been excavated, and little-known chicken manure rice noodles that conform to the concept of green food have been grandly boarded the commodity shelves and entered hotels.

In the past, the little-known "chicken stewed with rattan bazi" has become the most famous snack in Qionghai because it conforms to the concept of green food. 1999 was packaged and upgraded by local chefs, and even listed as one of the "famous Chinese snacks".

Now look at the slightly indecent name of chicken manure vine, but it has become an alternative snack in the eyes of tourists. Try it quickly. In Qionghai, JiTeng is a well-deserved protagonist of supper. In summer, a bowl of iced coconut juice, chicken manure and rattan seeds is cool and pleasant, sweet and soft; In winter, a bowl of hot chicken manure rake, accompanied by the fragrance of brown sugar and shredded ginger, can dispel the fatigue of the day.

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