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When does spring begin? What flowers?

Beginning of spring, alias January Festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day, is the first of the 24 solar terms. Beginning of spring is divided from astronomy, that is, when the sun reaches longitude 3 15. So do you know what bloom is in early spring? The following small series will answer your question.

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When does spring begin? What flowers?

What food do northerners eat in the spring?

Beginning of spring's way of keeping fit.

When does spring begin? What flowers?

The temperature is different all over the country, so there will be more or less flowers at the beginning of spring, with the most in the south. There are Chimonanthus praecox, Plum Blossom, Camellia, Chrysanthemum, Spring Festival, Rape Flower, Saussurea involucrata, Flos Magnoliae, Chrysanthemum, Begonia, Peony, Tulip, Zhu Dinghong Flower, Double-petaled Narcissus, hyacinthus orientalis Flower, Orchid, Rain Flower, Fireworks Flower, Worry-free Flower, Yellow Flower and Kapok. Canopy flower, sightseeing flower, chapped flower, rejuvenating flower, Liriodendron flower, Carya cathayensis flower, big wood lotus flower, snow peach flower, plum flower, apricot flower, pear flower, apple flower, rose begonia flower, dahlia flower, morning glory flower, primrose flower, magnolia flower, gardenia flower and hydrangea flower.

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What food do northerners eat in the spring?

1, spring pancake

On this day in beginning of spring, an important custom is "biting the spring". The food eaten in the north is spring cakes, while spring rolls are very popular in the south. Eating spring cakes and spring rolls is a good blessing to "a year's plan lies in spring" Therefore, this custom has continued to this day.

Every year in beginning of spring, Beijingers eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring". The custom of eating spring cakes has a long history. "The History of Good Diet in the Forbidden City of Ming Dynasty" records: "The day before beginning of spring, outside Dongzhimen, Shuntianfu Street, ministers and powerful warriors? On the second day in beginning of spring, everyone, regardless of rank, was chewing radish, called' biting spring', entertaining each other and eating spring cakes and vegetables. " This custom can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Guan Zhongji said that the Tang people "made spring cakes in spring, wrapped them with Artemisia annua, leeks and Polygonum hydropiper buds" and gave each other gifts to welcome the spring.

Beijing people eat spring cakes, roll them into round cakes with white flour and bake them. According to Tiaodingji in Qing Dynasty, the method of making spring cakes is to "roll dough with ham, chicken and other things, or stir-fry cabbage in four seasons for customers to eat. Crush the marinated pork tenderloin, garlic, black dates, walnuts and foreign sugar (white sugar) and roll them into pieces. " This is the way to eat in the Qing Dynasty. But now it has evolved into spring cake with sweet noodle sauce and rolled onions.

Spring cakes are used to roll vegetables, including all kinds of cooked food and stir-fried dishes. Because of the combination of vegetarian diet and various foods, it is rich in various nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium and selenium. Because it is not often done at home, it is novel and unique, which makes people have an appetite. It can nourish stomach, promote fluid production, nourish yin and eliminate dryness, and is especially suitable for the elderly and children.

When eating spring cakes, it is best to put a clean flat plate in front of everyone, put spring cakes on it, put vegetables or other stir-fried dishes, and roll them up to eat. While eating spring cakes, you can also add some soup to moisten it. Spring cakes should be served with mung bean porridge or red bean millet porridge. But if there is a bowl of hot and sour soup, or other soup, it will not work.

2. Little carrots

On the day of spring, another food that China people "bite spring" is radish. Generally speaking, it can solve the spring sleep. It can also enhance women's reproductive function, and beginning of spring radish is also called "offspring radish".

In the past, "biting the spring" was to buy a radish to eat, because radish tastes spicy, which means that the ancients "bitten the grass roots and could do anything." In old Beijing, on this day, from early in the morning, someone was carrying a burden and shouting in the alley: "Radish is pear?" No matter how poor people were at that time, they had to buy a radish for their children to bite the spring.

Li Shizhen is full of praise for radish, thinking that it "can be eaten raw, cooked, sauced, fermented, vinegar, sugar, wax and rice, which is the most beneficial among vegetables." You see, Li Shizhen has made a radish recipe. Moreover, radish has great medicinal value, which can eliminate phlegm, ventilate, relieve cough, and even relieve alcoholism, detoxify, replenish spleen and stomach, and keep out the cold. It can be seen that eating radish is just a custom on the surface, but it is actually the experience of the ancients in nutrition, fitness and disease removal.

There is also a folk record that "radishes are on the market, but doctors are fine". Vitamin C in radish can help eliminate waste in the body and promote the metabolism of the body. Especially white radish or water radish, rich in enzymes, can promote digestion. Usually, enzymes can absorb starch in food, dissolve food accumulated in the stomach, have a good digestion effect and prevent stomach pain and gastric ulcer.

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Beginning of spring's way of keeping fit.

1, get up early and go to bed early to nourish the liver

Huangdi Neijing said: "In the spring of March, this is called Chen Zhisheng, the world is born, and everything is glorious. He lies at night and gets up early, striding to court and being delayed, so as to live, live without killing, give without taking, reward without punishment. This is the answer of spring and the way of health preservation. On the contrary, it hurts the liver? " . This means that after beginning of spring, nature is full of vitality and everything is thriving. At this time, people should go to bed early and get up early, go for a walk in the morning, relax themselves, and let their emotions grow with spring without violating it. This is the way to keep fit for spring. If this method is violated, the liver will be damaged, which is the basis of spring delivery. So in spring, the way to keep fit is to relax and adjust your mood.

2, to prevent the recurrence of old diseases

There is an old saying: "A hundred herbs germinate, and old diseases germinate." It can be seen that beginning of spring is a season with frequent diseases. The frequently-occurring diseases in spring include pneumonia, hepatitis, meningitis, measles, mumps, allergic asthma, myocardial infarction and mental illness. Therefore, patients with hepatitis, allergic asthma and myocardial infarction should pay special attention to aftercare prevention.

Don't cut clothes too early.

"No clothes in spring, no hats in autumn". The temperature in early spring hasn't warmed up yet, so don't throw away your winter clothes too early. After wearing cotton-padded clothes for several months in winter, the regulation of body heat production and radiation is in a relatively balanced state with the environmental temperature in winter. From winter to early spring, it is warm and cold, and the temperature changes greatly. If you take off your winter clothes too early, it will be difficult to adapt once the temperature drops, which will reduce your body's resistance. Bacteria attack the body, which is easy to cause various respiratory diseases and infectious diseases in winter and spring.

4. comb your hair one hundred times a day

Health theory says: "In spring and March, comb your hair one or two hundred times every morning." Combing your hair every day in spring is a good health care method. Because spring is the season when the natural yang rises, at this time, the yang of the human body also conforms to nature and has the characteristics of rising upward and outward, which is manifested in the gradual expansion of pores, vigorous metabolism and rapid growth. Therefore, combing hair in spring just meets the requirements of health preservation in this spring, and plays an important role in promoting qi circulation, relieving depression, dredging qi and blood, and invigorating yang.

5. Eat less tonic and salt.

Many people advocate winter tonic, but beginning of spring should be moderate in the later period. All the year round has the characteristics of "spring life, long summer, autumn harvest and winter storage". Born in nature, we must conform to the laws of nature. In winter, according to personal physique, it conforms to the principle of winter storage and health preservation. However, in the period after beginning of spring, the amount of tonic, whether food or medicine, should be gradually reduced to gradually adapt to the seasonal characteristics of comfort, rising and arrival in the coming spring. At the same time, it is also very important to reduce salt intake, because salty taste enters the kidney, and eating too much salt is easy to hurt kidney qi, which is not conducive to maintaining Yang Qi.

6. Eat more leeks and coriander.

In spring, Yang was born. In addition to nourishing yang, diet should also give viscera. You should eat some sweet products properly, not sour ones. Because the sour taste enters the liver, it has astringent taste, which is not conducive to the growth of yang and the release of liver qi. Food can choose spicy onion, coriander, peanut, leek, shrimp and so on. Eat less spicy food.

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