Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What vegetables does Xiaoman eat? What does xiaoman mean? How does Xiaoman keep fit?

What vegetables does Xiaoman eat? What does xiaoman mean? How does Xiaoman keep fit?

Xiaoman's way of eating is spring breeze, bitter vegetables grow long, and wasteland is granary. It is also the season of bitter vegetables around Xiaoman, which is one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China.

Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. Sophora alopecuroides is all over the country. Medically, it's called Patrinia, Ningxia people call it Sophora alopecuroides, Shaanxi people call it Sophora alopecuroides, and Li Shizhen is called Tianxiao Herb.

Bitter vegetables, bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and tender, rich in nutrition, contain many vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol needed by human body, and have the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.

Eating bitter gourd in summer is a good way to clear away heat and toxic materials. Momordica charantia has the effects of clearing heat, nourishing blood, invigorating qi, invigorating kidney and spleen, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, and has a certain curative effect on dysentery, sores, heatstroke, fever, excessive miliaria, conjunctivitis and other diseases.

Bitter bamboo shoots are also suitable for bitter food in summer. Bitter bamboo shoots are rich in cellulose, vitamins, alkaloids and so on. And has the functions of dehumidification, diuresis, clearing away heat and vexation, and relieving summer heat and digestion.

Xiaoman is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in summer. Xiaoman-refers to the summer crops with full seeds, but not yet mature, just small and not yet full. Every year from May 20th to 22nd, when the sun reaches 60 degrees, it is in full bloom.