The local customs of the great cold

After the slight cold, 15 is a severe cold, which is also the last of the 24 solar terms in the whole year. Although the weather is cold at this time, it will not be as cold as it is from heavy snow to winter solstice because it is near spring. At this time, people are busy throwing away old decorations, pickling new year's dishes and preparing new year's goods, because the Spring Festival, the most important festival for China people, is coming. During this period, northerners also have a very important day-Laba, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, people cook a pot of sweet and delicious Laba porridge with whole grains, peanuts, chestnuts, red dates and lotus seeds, which is an indispensable staple food for Chinese New Year. The severe cold solar terms often coincide with the end of the year, and the Spring Festival in 2009 is included in the severe cold solar terms. Therefore, in such a cold solar term, in addition to doing farm work to conform to the solar term, we have to rush about for the New Year ―― catching up on new year's goods, buying new year's goods, writing Spring Festival couplets, preparing all kinds of sacrificial supplies, sweeping away dust and wiping things, removing old cloth, preparing new year's goods, pickling all kinds of sausages and bacon, or cooking new year's dishes such as chicken, duck and fish. At the same time, sacrifice ancestors and various gods to pray for good weather in the coming year. In addition, in the cold season, people often snap up sesame stalks in the street. Because "sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher", on New Year's Eve, people scatter sesame stalks on the way outside for a walk, so that children can crush them, which is homophonic "stepping on the old". At the same time, the homonym of "crush" and "old" means "peace all the year round", which is a good slogan for New Year's Day. This also makes the great cold drive away evil and welcome auspicious festivals more intense.

Due to the transition from the Great Cold to beginning of spring, cultured families have also adapted to the seasonal changes in diet. The amount of food supplemented by the Great Cold is gradually decreasing, and more food is supplemented to adapt to the rise of everything in spring. In Foshan, Guangdong, there is a folk custom of cooking glutinous rice in a big cold pot. Glutinous rice is sweet and warm, and has the effect of keeping out the cold and nourishing. Anqing, Anhui has the custom of frying spring rolls in cold weather.

Bazhen eight treasure rice

Glutinous rice 100g, rice 100g, adzuki bean 50g, coix seed 50g, lotus seed 20g, medlar 20g, longan 20g and jujube 50g. Wash adzuki bean, coix seed and lotus seed with clear water, soak for 2 hours, and then add glutinous rice and rice. Steam over high heat and eat with sugar. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing blood and calming the nerves, and is suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and blood, such as physical weakness, fatigue and fatigue.

Qiqi stew chicken

1 broiler (about 500g), 30g of Astragalus membranaceus, 30g of Lycium barbarum, Atractylodes macrocephala10g, and appropriate seasoning. Clean the broiler, cut it into small pieces, add various nourishing Chinese medicines and seasonings such as onion, ginger, garlic and salt wine, simmer with slow fire 1 hour, eat meat and drink soup. It has the effects of invigorating middle energizer, invigorating qi, nourishing yin and strengthening yang, and enhancing the body's disease resistance, and is suitable for people with weak constitution and easy to catch a cold.

Divergent cold decoction

Egg 1, coriander 10g, onion 5g, ginger 5g, salt monosodium glutamate and other seasonings. Stir the eggs evenly, wash the parsley, onion and ginger and cut into pieces. Boil water in the pot, add a little water starch to make the water slightly thick, and then slowly pour the stirred eggs into pieces. Add coriander, onion ginger, salt monosodium glutamate and other spices, and add a little sesame oil before cooking. It has the functions of expelling wind and cold, sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, and is suitable for the early stage of mild cold.

DIY4 Yudao Han Cai

Keywords: stomach cold, heart cold and pain

Recipe 1: white pepper pot pork tripe soup

Ingredients: white pepper, pork tripe, monosodium glutamate, salt, white sesame and soy sauce.

Exercise:

1. Wash pork belly repeatedly with clear water;

2. Break the white pepper and put it in the pig's belly, leaving a little water;

3. Tie the head and tail of the pork belly tightly with thread, simmer for more than 1 hour until the pork belly becomes soft, and add salt to taste. In addition, the stewed pork belly is crisp, rotten and tender, cut into strips and put on a plate, and then sprinkled with white sesame seeds and fresh soy sauce, which is a very good cold dish.

Tips: It can be used to treat stomach cold and heart cold pain. In fact, this soup is milky white after cooking, which has unusual therapeutic and medicinal effects, and it is also delicious, and can be used as a home-cooked dish in winter.

Keywords: weak waist and knees, general weakness

Recipe 2: Stewed white radish with mutton

Ingredients: white radish, mutton, ginger, cooking wine, salt.

Production method:

1. Wash white radish and mutton and cut into pieces for later use;

2. Put a proper amount of water into the pot, put the mutton into the pot, take it out after the mutton boils for five or six minutes, and pour out the water;

3. Change the water to boil, then add mutton, ginger, cooking wine and salt, stew until half cooked, and put the white radish into the pot until cooked.

Tips: Yiqi Buxu, moderate temperature and lower temperature. It is more suitable for people with weak waist and knees, drowsiness and fatigue, and spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.

Keywords: enhancing the immune function of the body

Recipe 3: Fried Mushrooms

Raw materials: water-soaked shiitake mushrooms are equal to fresh shiitake mushrooms, and vegetable oil, soy sauce, sugar, water starch, monosodium glutamate, salt, yellow wine, Jiang Mo, fresh soup and sesame oil are appropriate.

Production method:

1. Wash and slice mushrooms and fresh mushrooms;

2. Heat the wok, put oil, add mushrooms and stir fry, add ginger, soy sauce, sugar and yellow wine, and add water to boil;

3. Add monosodium glutamate and salt, thicken water starch, pour sesame oil, and serve.

Tips: benefit the stomach, resolve phlegm and dispel cold. This dish can enhance the immune function of the body and is more suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia.

Keywords: vitamin supplement and appetizing

Recipe 4: small white radish pickle

Ingredients: white radish, onion, minced garlic, Chili sauce, water, salt and sugar.

Production method:

1. white radish (with leafed stems) and onion are washed, drained and pickled with salt water 1~2 days or so;

2. Stir the minced garlic and Chili sauce evenly;

3. Wash the pickled white radish, drain the water, add the materials of the second method, stir well, put it in a clean container without water, and then pour the seasoning.

4. Cover and seal the container, and put it in the refrigerator for about 3~5 days until it tastes delicious and can be stored for about 1~2 weeks.

Tips: This dish is rich in vitamins, and its vitamin A content is more than three times that of broccoli, and its calcium content is four times that of spinach. It is a good appetizer.

Common medicinal diet for cold health care

Jiang mutton soup

Ingredients: 30g of Angelica sinensis, 30g of ginger and 500g of mutton.

Practice: Wash angelica and ginger with clear water and cut them into large pieces for later use. Remove fascia from mutton, wash and cut into pieces, blanch in boiling water to remove blood, remove and cool for later use. Put a proper amount of water into the casserole, put the mutton into the pot, then add the Chinese angelica and ginger slices, boil over high fire, skim off the floating foam, and simmer for 1.5 hours until the mutton is cooked and rotten. Take out angelica and ginger slices, drink soup and eat meat.

Efficacy: warming the middle, enriching blood and dispelling cold.

Hongqi Tianqi chicken

Materials: Lycium barbarum 15g, Panax notoginseng 10g, hen 1g, ginger 20g, onion 30g, Shaoxing wine 30g, pepper and monosodium glutamate.

Practice: Wash live chickens after slaughter, wash Lycium barbarum, grind 4 grams of Panax notoginseng, slice 6 grams, cut ginger into large pieces, and cut onions into sections for later use. Blanch the chicken in a boiling water pot to remove blood, take it out and drain it, then put Lycium barbarum, Notoginseng Radix, ginger and onion into the chicken belly, put the chicken in an air pot, inject a small amount of clear soup, and add pepper and Shaoxing wine; Sprinkle Panax Notoginseng on the chicken breast, cover the pot, put it in a cage and steam it with boiling water for about 2 hours, then season it with monosodium glutamate.

Efficacy: tonify deficiency and benefit blood. It is mild in nature and can be eaten by the elderly, people with chronic physical weakness, and people with blood deficiency during menstruation and postpartum.

Sweet and sour shredded carrot

Ingredients: carrot, ginger, sugar, vinegar, salt, monosodium glutamate and vegetable oil.

Practice: Wash carrots and shred ginger for later use. Heat the wok to drain the oil (the oil in the wok is cool), then add shredded ginger, stir-fry, add shredded carrot, stir-fry for 2 minutes, add vinegar and sugar, stir-fry until it is 80% cooked, add salt until the vegetables are cooked, and add monosodium glutamate to taste. Serve.

Efficacy: lowering qi, invigorating middle energizer, benefiting chest and diaphragm, regulating stomach and intestines, and calming five internal organs.

Milk porridge

Ingredients: half a catty of milk, japonica rice 100g.

Practice: Wash the japonica rice, put it in a pot and pour in water. After cooking with high fire, cook with slow fire until it is half cooked, add milk and continue to cook until it becomes porridge.

Efficacy: Runfei Tongchang, tonify deficiency and nourish blood.