Recipes corresponding to the 24 solar terms

On this day, people are used to eating radish, ginger, onion and bread, which is called "biting spring". At the beginning of spring, they also have their own food, mainly spring cakes, radishes, spiced dishes and so on. In the south, spring rolls are very popular.

2. Rain:

First, you can eat soybeans and bean products: They are rich in protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B, moderate fat and a small amount of carbohydrates, which are very beneficial to the repair of the liver.

Second, you can eat watermelon: watermelon has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving annoyance and thirst, diuresis and lowering blood pressure, and is rich in sugar, vitamins and protease. Protease can transform insoluble protein into soluble protein.

Third, eat seafood: such as leucorrhea, yellow croaker, whitebait, and crustaceans such as oysters and crabs can enhance immune function and help repair damaged liver tissue cells. However, proper cooking methods should be selected, otherwise food poisoning may be caused, and the cooking temperature should reach 100 degrees. The heating time should be more than half an hour. If patients are allergic to seafood, they need to avoid eating it, and they can eat more mushrooms, tremella, kelp, seaweed and so on.

3, in a daze:

Eat pears when you are scared: farmers should eat pears on scared days, which means leaving pests behind. When spring returns to the earth, the climate is relatively dry, which makes people thirsty easily.

Eating eggs in fright: It is said that it is because the white tiger is sacrificed on this day of fright, and the white tiger will generally grin. Only feed it with eggs, and it won't hurt people if you are full.

Stir-fried beans: people soak soybeans in salt water and stir-fry them in a pot, making a crackling sound, which symbolizes the jumping sound of insects when they are tortured by heat in the pot.

4. vernal equinox:

Eat spring vegetables. In the past, there was an unbroken custom called "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". "Spring vegetable" is a kind of wild amaranth, which villagers call "Artemisia chun". On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the wild, it is often green and thin, about the length of a palm. Picked spring vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup".

5. Qingming:

Eating mugs in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional snack of Hakka people in Tomb-Sweeping Day. First, wash the fresh and tender wormwood, put it in a pot and cook it, then take it out and drain it. The water for boiling wormwood should be reserved for later use. Then chop the cooked wormwood into grass mud, and the finer the grass mud, the worse the better. After cutting the wormwood mud, mix it with boiled wormwood water and glutinous rice flour. Then, the prepared fillings such as sesame seeds, plum beans and peanuts are wrapped in dough, sealed and kneaded into a round shape and a long shape, and then steamed in a pot for 15-20 minutes, and then taken out.

6. Grain Rain:

Some time before and after Grain Rain, it was the time when Toona sinensis went on the market. At this time, Toona sinensis is budding, and its purple fat leaves are light green, shiny and thick, emitting a unique fragrance, which is the most fashionable and precious dish at present. Toona sinensis is generally divided into purple Toona sinensis buds and green Toona sinensis buds, especially purple Toona sinensis buds. Toona sinensis is rich in protein, fat, sugar, vitamin C and so on. It has considerable nutritional and medicinal value, can improve the body's resistance, and has the effects of regulating qi, invigorating stomach, moistening skin, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation.

7. Long summer:

Long summer eats long summer rice. Every day before the long summer, children will ask the first family next door for a bowl of rice, which is called "taking Xia Xia rice". Dig some bamboo shoots, "steal" some broad beans and use some garlic seedlings. Cook rice and ingredients in the open air in summer, put plums and cherries on the rice, and distribute them to the one that gave rice a few days ago, the first one with a small bowl. Folk believe that children can prevent heatstroke after eating.

Long summer rice contains condiments such as thunder bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans and amaranth. Eating five-colored rice in the long summer also means being healthy all year round.

8. Xiao Man:

Xiaoman suffers hardships. Bitter vegetable show of Xiao Man Festival. Bitter vegetables contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, various inorganic salts, vitamins and other nutrients, which can clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify, and have a good preventive and therapeutic effect on furuncle, hematemesis, nosebleeds, constipation and colds. Sterilization and anti-inflammation, it has certain curative effect on jaundice hepatitis, pharyngolaryngitis, bacillary dysentery, cold and fever, chronic tracheitis and tonsillitis. It can also prevent and treat diabetes, cervical cancer and rectal cancer.

Bitter vegetables can be boiled in cold salad, soup, fried noodles or steamed, such as cold bitter vegetables, bitter pork liver soup, fried bitter vegetables and steamed bitter vegetables. Be sure to blanch with boiling water before eating, so as to remove oxalic acid and absorb calcium.

9. Miscanthus:

Eating eggs can not only withstand the test of "summer", but also bring a complete life. There is also the custom of drinking tea in Jiangxi, which can ensure that you will be refreshed and not sleepy all summer. In the south, people cook green plums into wine every year during the awning period, so as to achieve the purpose of beautifying, eliminating fatigue and enhancing human immunity.

10, summer solstice:

Eat lettuce and cold noodles until the sun in summer: In the past, there was a proverb in old Beijing, "Wonton Noodles is the sun in winter and the sun in summer". Every summer, you can eat lettuce and cold noodles on the solstice. Eating these raw and cold foods can effectively help reduce fire and stimulate appetite.

1 1, Xiao Shu:

Eat eel in summer. As the saying goes, "Monopterus albus participates in summer", and old Nanjing pays attention to eating Monopterus albus in summer. Monopterus albus was born in a mud hole on the seashore, and the summer eel is the most nourishing and delicious one month before and after the summer heat. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Monopterus albus is warm and sweet, and has the functions of nourishing the middle warmer, nourishing the liver and spleen, removing rheumatism and strengthening bones and muscles. In terms of composition, Monopterus albus has a high protein content, and its iron content is more than twice as high as that of carp and yellow croaker, and it can also reduce the concentration of cholesterol in blood. It is best to eat Monopterus albus in summer, which can prevent diarrhea caused by indigestion in summer and protect the cardiovascular system. In addition, summer is the remission period of rheumatic arthritis, chronic bronchitis and other diseases, and eating eel in summer has the effect of treating winter diseases. Summer is hot, and it is also a season with frequent digestive tract diseases. Appropriate, light and nutritious diet should be adopted for aftercare.

12, hot summer:

Eat fairy grass in summer. Many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating fairy grass in summer. There is a folk saying that "Eating Cao Xian in June is like living as a fairy, never getting old". Cao Xian bean jelly and Cao Xian are also common summer products for Xiamen people.

13, beginning of autumn:

Eating eggplant in beginning of autumn is not only a popular vegetable with good quality and low price, but also a good food therapy. Chinese medicine believes that eggplant is cool and sweet, and has the functions of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, relieving swelling and pain, expelling wind and dredging collaterals, moistening intestines and benefiting qi, so eating eggplant in this season can reduce fire and eliminate autumn dryness.

14, summer:

Eat beef stew with pumpkin in summer. It is especially suitable for friends with lung discomfort and cough. It can not only prevent colds, but also has the therapeutic effects of moistening lung and benefiting qi, treating cough and asthma and moistening skin.

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin E, which can improve the symptoms of autumn dryness. It can also moisten lung, benefit qi, eliminate phlegm and expel pus, treat cough and asthma, and has diuretic and beauty effects.

15, Millennium:

Eat longan in the Millennium. There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian called "longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of greatly supplementing the body. Because longan itself has many functions, such as invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves, moistening skin and caring skin, it can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases.

16, autumnal equinox:

Eat crabs in the autumn equinox. The autumnal equinox season is the most fertile and nourishing time for crab meat. Crab is a valuable aquatic product with tender and delicious meat. Not only that, crabs also have extremely high nutritional value. Their protein content is several times higher than that of pork and fish, and they are rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A and other nutrients.

There are many kinds of crabs. There are about 600 kinds of crabs in China. Crabs can be divided into fresh water and seawater. The most famous genus of freshwater crabs is "hairy crabs", commonly known as river crabs, hairy crabs and freshwater crabs. Generally, it matures from September to 65438+ 10, and it is in the autumn equinox every year.

17, cold dew:

Cold dew eats chrysanthemum wine. Cold dew is near the Double Ninth Festival. At this time, chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, some areas have the custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine". This custom, together with climbing, gradually moved to the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemum, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast, which was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.

18, first frost:

First, eat beef in frost. Beef has a high nutritional value. In ancient times, there was a saying that "beef tonifies qi, and the work is the same as astragalus". Compendium of Materia Medica points out that beef can "soothe the middle energizer, nourish the spleen and stomach, replenish deficiency, strengthen bones and muscles, eliminate edema and remove moisture". Chinese medicine believes that beef entering the spleen and stomach meridian is a good product for nourishing the spleen and stomach. However, western nutritionists believe that beef is delicious because of its high protein content and low fat content, and it is deeply loved by people and enjoys the reputation of "the pet of meat".

Beef can nourish the spleen and stomach, especially in autumn. Beef also has the function of tonifying kidney, so men can eat more. At the same time, you can also eat fried beef, braised beef brisket and stewed yam with beef bone marrow.

19, beginning of winter:

In southern China, people like to eat chickens, ducks and fish in early winter. On this day in early winter in Taiwan Province Province, mutton stoves and ginger ducks on the street supplemented the wedding content of winter restaurants. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken and siwu chicken to supplement energy.

Northerners like to eat jiaozi on this day. Jiaozi means "mating time", while beginning of winter is the day when autumn and winter meet, so the tradition of beginning of winter eating jiaozi has been spread in the north for hundreds of years. Others say that beginning of winter can't take jiaozi out of the pot and eat it right away. He should put them one by one in a well-washed sieve, air them a little, and then pour out the water. This is to worship the land god before eating and thank him for his generosity in autumn.

20, light snow:

Xiaoxue eats mutton. Mutton tastes sweet and warm, and enters the spleen and kidney. Eating mutton in winter can kill two birds with one stone: on the one hand, it can increase the body's heat and resist the cold, on the other hand, it is of great benefit to deficiency-cold syndrome. Braised or boiled in soup can bring the flavor of mutton to the extreme.

2 1, heavy snow:

Eat jujube cake on a snowy day. Jujube cake is a kind of jujube cake with unique taste, rich jujube fragrance, delicate taste and sweet aftertaste. Contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish spleen and stomach, invigorate qi and promote fluid production, but also protect liver, increase muscle strength, beauty beauty and prevent aging. Jujube cake is widely loved by modern consumers because of its reasonable price and rich nutrition. There is a folk saying that "jujube cakes are often magenta, healthy and refreshing" and "eating three dates at a time will not make you old at the age of 100".

22. Winter solstice:

Eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. Jiaozi is the most suitable food to eat in winter, especially in the north of China, and jiaozi is eaten on the solstice in winter, which has been circulated for thousands of years. Jiaozi is the most representative food in northern China. It can be cooked or steamed. People eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter, which means good luck. In many areas, there is a saying that "noodles on the solstice in winter in jiaozi are the solstice in summer".

Eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter. In the south of China, glutinous rice balls are the most suitable food from winter to Sunday. It is said that as early as the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of eating glutinous rice balls from winter solstice in southern China. Eating dumplings on this day means that the whole family is round and round, and dumplings are made of glutinous rice. There are black sesame seeds, peanut butter and other kinds of things in them. People can make up deficiency after eating, and can also strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite. Eating solstice in winter is good for the spleen and stomach.

23, slight cold:

Han Xiao eats Laba porridge. One of the important folk customs in the slight cold solar terms is to eat "Laba porridge". Before and after the slight cold solar terms, eating such rich hot porridge at this time can not only stimulate appetite, but also increase calories in the body, thus warming the stomach and dispelling cold.

24, the great cold:

Eat red dates in cold weather. Small red dates have a great effect, which can not only enrich the blood and beautify the face, but also have a good effect of invigorating qi, which can effectively resist the cold, and it is perfect to eat in cold times. Jujube also contains a lot of trace elements and nutrients, which can effectively improve human immunity and has a very good health care function.