Folklore and health tips for the Mangseo season

Mangdiao is the third solar term of summer, arriving at the beginning of June, which is the arrival of the real summer, which means that the climate at that time of the year will undergo a significant change, many places will have a lot of precipitation, the temperature will soar. Here is my compilation of folk customs and health tips for the Mangkol festival, I hope it will be helpful to you.

Mango Festival Folklore

1. Cooking yellow plum

Before and after the Mango, is the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River around the rainy season, this time is when the yellow plum is ripe, because of the yellow plum is acidic and astringent, inconvenient to the direct entrance, need to be processed before you can eat, so many of the farmers in the region have the Mango boiled plum to eat! Customs.

2. Preserved flowers will

Some areas of Jiangnan in the mango day and "preserved flowers will" custom. Local people believe that after the mango is summer, the flowers withered, the flower god abdicated, it is necessary to set up a variety of gifts for the flower god farewell. Some people also use silk to hang flower branches to show their farewell. Cao Xueqin in the "Dream of the Red Chamber" twenty-seventh wrote Mango Festival: "This day, those girls, or with petals and willow branches woven into a sedan chair horse, or with damask brocade gauze folded into a thousand banner banner, are tied with colorful threads. Every tree, every flower, all tied these things. The garden was full of embroidered ribbons and fluttering flowers." "dry banner banner block" in the "dry"

that is, shield; banner, banner, banner, block are ancient flags, banner is the top of the flagpole decorated with yak tail flag, banner and banner is similar to the banner, but the difference is that it has a colorful folding feather decorations, the block of the shape of the umbrella. This can be seen in the big families of the Mango Festival for the God of flowers going away lively scene.

3. Anmiao

Anmiao is a customary agricultural activities in some areas of southern Anhui, began in the early Ming Dynasty. Every year, after planting rice in the mango season, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, all over the world to hold the Anmiao ritual activities. Families with new wheat flour evaporation package, the surface pinch into the shape of grains, six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed with vegetable juice color, as a sacrificial offering, praying for a bumper crop, the villagers peace.

4. Mud fight

Dong young men and women in southeastern Guizhou, before and after the annual Mangshan Festival will be held. On that day, newlyweds accompanied by good young men and women, collective rice-planting, rice-planting while playing, throwing mud at each other. At the end of the event, check the results of the battle, the body with the most mud, is the most popular.

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Prevention of humidity and heart and lungs

At this time, the temperature rises, the air is humid and stuffy, and the south enters the rainy season, the heart load is gradually aggravated. Cardiac patients should be less late at night, to avoid tension, you can eat some of the heart food, such as cinnamon lotus meat jujube millet rock candy porridge, maitake cinnamon meat wolfberry chrysanthemum tea. You can also eat more spleen and dampness foods, such as barley, yam, white lentils, round-grained rice porridge.

Clothes should be washed diligently

Sleep late and get up early to properly receive sunlight (avoid direct sunlight, pay attention to heat), in order to comply with the fullness of yang qi, conducive to the operation of qi and blood, invigorate the spirit. After the mango, the afternoon heat, people are prone to sweating, clothing should be washed and changed. In order to avoid heatstroke, after the mango to often take a bath, which can make the skin loose, "Yang heat" is easy to vent. But be careful not to bathe immediately when sweating, there is an old Chinese saying, "sweating is not wet", if "sweating is wet, is born acne."

Diet should be light

The health practitioners of all ages believe that the summer diet should be light, from a nutritional point of view, the diet is light in health has an irreplaceable role. In addition, people are warned not to eat too salty, too sweet. Diet too salty, excess sodium ions in the body, will make the blood pressure rise, or even can cause cerebrovascular dysfunction. Eat too much sweet food, easy to cause the accumulation of intermediate products such as sucrose, and sucrose can lead to hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol, the serious can also induce diabetes.

Beware of heat stroke

Summer is prone to colds, known as "heat stroke" in Chinese medicine, runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing, and sometimes fever, headache, etc., and in severe cases, vomiting and diarrhea symptoms. In the diet can drink green bean soup, honeysuckle dew, chrysanthemum tea, rehmannia flowers to clear heat. At the same time, avoid eating greasy, sticky, sour, fishy, spicy food, such as glutinous rice, fried food, sea fish, sweets. Be careful with supplements, do not eat ginseng and cordyceps, zhihechuan, deer antler and other warm supplements when you have a fever, and do not eat mutton, dog meat.

Good winter treatment

Winter treatment is an important point of view of Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that in the winter commonly occurring diseases, in the summer it is necessary to pay attention to the living habits and behaviors associated with these disease-causing factors, in order to achieve the purpose of prevention. Such as various types of arthralgia and numbness of the limbs and other diseases of patients, in the summer, it is best not to wear shorts, do not take a cold bath or swimming, forbidden to sleep on the floor as well as sleeping outdoors, to avoid the wind, cold and dampness accumulated in the meridians. The first thing that you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

Manchu Festival food

1, drink plum wine

Nanjing has "cooking plum" custom, Lishui District people are still used to in the Manchu Festival bubble plum wine. In the south, every year in May and June is the plum ripe season, plum picking put at home in the shade, the day of Mangsui will be cleaned plum soak in white wine, white wine is generally selected 55 degrees, 10 pounds of white wine put 3 pounds of plums, two pounds of rock sugar for the proportion of the recipe, plum soak wine process for a month. This folklore and the Three Kingdoms allusion to "plum boiled wine heroes," quite a source.

2, eat eggs

The custom of eating eggs in the Mangkok Festival, because eating eggs in the Mangkok Festival, can bring a better significance, not only can make the family become more successful life, but also a more nutritious ingredient eggs.

We all know that eggs contain a variety of nutrients beneficial to the body elements, so eggs can help replenish the body qi and blood, and the hot climate after the Mangkasi, the human body will be the symptoms of the phenomenon of loss of appetite, and the eggs can help prevent the summer day common lack of appetite and other symptoms of the summer of bitterness.

3, drink tea

Many regions also have the custom of drinking tea in the mango, because tea in the mango, you can refresh your brain, relieve physical fatigue, for some physical illnesses also have a certain degree of prevention and avoidance, so it is also said that do not drink tea in the mango, a summer will be more difficult to get through.

4, eat Jun Tap vegetable

Jun Tap vegetable is also a traditional food in Mangsui, because Jun Tap vegetable is a kind of vegetable listed before and after the Mangsui festival, is also regarded as a seasonal vegetable in Mangsui season, and it is said that in the Mangsui eat Jun Tap vegetable has a heat and detoxification, the role of the skin, for the summer heat rash is often prevented and alleviated.