Grain Rain eats Toona sinensis and lives a long life.

In northern Grain Rain, there is a custom of eating Toona sinensis in solar terms. Toona sinensis is considered as a "vegetable on the tree" and a tender bud of Toona sinensis. Around Grain Rain, it is the best season to eat Toona sinensis. There is a folk proverb: "Toona sinensis is as tender as silk before the rain." At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is a good product for cooking, mixing materials, boiling water or making soup. However, the dietary fiber of Toona sinensis buds after Grain Rain is aging, with poor taste and greatly reduced nutritional value.

Toona sinensis is not only delicious and nutritious, but also has high medicinal value. Chinese medicine believes that Toona sinensis is flat in nature and bitter in taste, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and regulating qi, moistening skin and improving eyesight, and killing insects. Can be used for treating sores, alopecia, conjunctival congestion, cough due to lung heat, etc. It can also be used for chronic diarrhea and dysentery, hemorrhoids and hematochezia, sores and tinea. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Baldness is not born: take the heart of Toona sinensis, peach and catalpa bungeana, pound the juice and apply it diligently." However, Toona sinensis is a hair product, and eating more is easy to induce the recurrence of chronic diseases, so patients with chronic diseases should eat less or not.

In addition, in the eyes of China people, Toona sinensis is a symbol of longevity. "Zhuangzi's Happy Tour" said: "In ancient times, people with big stumps took 8,000 years old as spring and 8,000 years old as autumn, which was also a New Year's Day." Up to now, there is still the custom of touching Toona sinensis by hand in Grain Rain Solar Festival to express good wishes for its longevity and happiness.

Recipe recommendation:

Toona sinensis seedlings mixed with walnut kernel

Materials:

250g of Toona sinensis seedlings, 50g of walnut kernel, proper amount of olive oil and salt.

Exercise:

Boil walnut kernel in water for 5 minutes, then soak it for 10 minute, and remove the thin skin on the surface with a toothpick; Rooting, cleaning and draining Toona sinensis seedlings; Stir Toona sinensis seedlings, walnuts, olive oil and salt evenly.

Efficacy:

Toona sinensis seedlings mixed with walnut kernel have the effects of moistening skin, improving eyesight, strengthening brain and kidney, stimulating appetite and strengthening stomach, and can be used as fetal protection food for pregnant women.