Traditional activities and health food of Xiaoman solar terms

Xiaoman is one of the twenty-four solar terms and the second solar term in summer. It means that the seeds of summer crops are full, but immature, just small and not full. The following are the traditional activities and health foods I have arranged for you, hoping to help you.

Traditional activities of solar terms in Xiao Man

1, grab water

There is a peasant proverb: "A villain carries three cars (water truck, oil truck and silk truck)."

It is said that dry weather is easy to occur in the small full season, so farmers use water trucks to pick up vehicles for irrigation and drainage.

Now, the waterwheel has long been replaced by advanced machinery, but the traditional culture has been preserved. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the ceremony of "grabbing water" is held every year in Xiaoman season. The ceremony of "grabbing water" was very lively. Everyone is eating wheat cakes, wheat cakes and wheat balls on the foundation of the waterwheel, and gong. Everyone stepped on the pre-installed waterwheel, and dozens of cars marched together to lead the river to the fields.

Step 2 pray for silkworms

Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are rich in soil and water, and sericulture thrives in rural areas.

Silkworm babies are very delicate and difficult to raise, so in Xiaoman season, festivals to pray for silkworms will be held in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

There is no fixed date for praying for silkworms. Any family can be held on any day, but the difference is no more than two or three days. Many places in the south have built "Mother Silkworm Temple" and "Silkworm Temple", where sericulture families will bow down and offer wine, fruit and rich dishes.

3. Look at the yellow tip of wheat

"Wheat pointed yellow, the woman according to the mother. When the shackles are removed, mother looks at the enemy. "

In Guanzhong area, daughters who got married in Xiaoman season will visit their parents' homes to meet the preparations for the summer harvest. This custom is called "Look at the yellow top of wheat".

You can't go home empty-handed Son-in-law and daughter usually bring oil cakes, mung bean cakes and apricot as gifts.

4. Xiaoman "Bitter Vegetable" is on the market.

"Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary."

If a nursery rhyme can bring us memories, then a taste can make us feel in memories. It is the custom of Xiaoman to eat bitter vegetables. At the same time, as one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China, its taste is full of historical sense.

Bitter vegetables are all over the country, which is called Patrinia in medicine. Although it has astringent taste, it is nutritious and contains many vitamins, minerals and choline. And has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials.

There are many ways to eat bitter vegetables. You can rinse it with boiling water and then use cold dishes such as vinegar and sesame oil. Can also be pickled to eat, crisp and refreshing; You can also make soup, make stuffing and stir-fry different flavors.

Small solar terms health food

1, wax gourd

It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, relieving swelling and toxic materials, promoting fluid production and relieving restlessness, and is suitable for summer heat, polydipsia, edema, dysuria, thirst quenching, drinking water, edema and dyspnea.

2. onions (surname)

It has the effects of regulating stomach, regulating qi, eliminating dampness and resolving phlegm, detoxicating and killing insects, and is suitable for chest distress, excessive expectoration and dysuria.

3. purslane

It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, hematuria, urinary fever, jaundice and gingivitis.

4, crucian carp

It has the effects of invigorating spleen and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for spleen deficiency, anorexia, weakness, thirst, edema and dysuria.

5. abalone

It has the effects of nourishing blood, softening liver, nourishing yin, clearing away heat, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis, and relieving arthralgia, and is suitable for internal heat due to yin deficiency, amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, galactorrhea due to yin deficiency, yang hyperactivity due to yin deficiency, night blindness cataract, and damp-heat stranguria.

6. Corn

It has the effects of regulating middle energizer, stimulating appetite, reducing turbidity and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for urinary calculi or edema of chronic nephritis, hypertension, anorexia, etc.

7.sorghum

It has the effects of invigorating spleen and kidney, eliminating dampness and stopping dysentery, and is suitable for children's dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea due to damp heat, and diarrhea.

8. Coix seed

It is beneficial to diuresis, dampness absorption, spleen strengthening and diarrhea stopping, and is suitable for short and red urine, edematous beriberi, rheumatalgia, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, verruca plana, etc.

9, lentils

It has the effects of invigorating spleen, regulating middle energizer, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and is suitable for summer heat-dampness vomiting, spleen deficiency vomiting, anorexia, loose stool, diarrhea and edema, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, etc.

10, Oenanthe javanica

It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and is suitable for stranguria, hemorrhage, leukorrhagia, etc.

Xiaoman health recipe

1, boiled eggs of white crucian carp

Ingredients: white crucian carp, eggs.

Ingredients: ginger and pepper.

Practice: Wash the white crucian carp, fry it until it is slightly yellow, splash a little water and pick it up. Fry the eggs into poached eggs and scoop them up. Saute ginger slices in oil pan, add appropriate amount of water, bring to a boil over high fire, boil crucian carp for a while, add poached eggs, add appropriate amount of salt and pepper after boiling.

Efficacy: eliminating dampness and appetizing.

2, melon grass carp pot

Raw materials: grass carp and wax gourd.

Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate, vegetable oil.

Practice: Peel the wax gourd, wash and cut into triangular pieces, cut the grass carp clean, and leave the tail to wash. Fry grass carp in oil until golden brown, take a casserole, put some water, and put the fish and wax gourd together in the casserole. After the fire boils, simmer for about 2 hours. This soup is white. Season with salt and monosodium glutamate.

Efficacy: calming the liver and expelling wind, promoting diuresis and clearing heat.

3, celery mixed with tofu

Ingredients: celery and tofu.

Ingredients: salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil.

Practice: cut celery into small pieces, cut tofu into small squares, blanch with boiling water, remove and cool with cold boiling water, and control the water for later use. Stir-fry celery and tofu, add salt, monosodium glutamate and sesame oil and stir well.

Efficacy: calming liver and clearing heat, diuretic and detoxifying.

4. Fried duck with green pepper

Ingredients: duck breast, green pepper, eggs.

Ingredients: yellow rice wine, salt, dried starch, fresh soup, monosodium glutamate, water starch and vegetable oil.

Practice: Slice the duck breast, wash it with clear water and drain it. Mix eggs with dry starch and salt, and mix with duck slices evenly for sizing. Remove seeds and pedicels from green pepper, wash and slice. When the pan is hot, add oil and heat it to 40% heat. Put the duck slices in the pot and spread them out with a spoon. Stir-fry until 80% cooked, add green pepper, and pour duck slices into a colander to pour oil after cooking. Leave a little oil in the pot, add salt, wine and fresh soup to boil, then pour in sliced duck, green pepper and water starch, stir-fry for a few times and serve.

Efficacy: warming the middle warmer, strengthening the spleen, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.

5. horseshoe lotus root soup

Raw materials: water chestnut and lotus root.

Ingredients: appropriate amount of rock sugar.

Practice: Water chestnut is washed and peeled, and lotus root is washed and cut into small pieces. Add a proper amount of water to the casserole, put water chestnut and lotus root into the casserole, simmer for 20 minutes, add rock sugar, stew for 10 minute, and serve.

Efficacy: clearing heat and promoting diuresis, invigorating spleen and appetizing.