Specialty Foods and Folklore Activities of Mangseong Festival (芒种节气)

The Mangseo festival is the ninth festival of the year, which occurs between June 5 and 7 on the Gregorian calendar. The arrival of this time of the year indicates that people are busy planting seeds, it is a season for planting seeds and the temperature rises. Here is my compilation of the special foods and folk activities of the Mangkol festival, I hope it will be helpful to you.

Characteristic Foods of Mangkow Festival

1, drink plum wine

Nanjing has the custom of "cooking plums", and the people of Lishui District are still accustomed to soaking plum wine in the Mangkow Festival. 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 appear the symptoms of the phenomenon of the loss of appetite, and the eggs can help prevent the lack of appetite and other symptoms of the summer day common bitter summer.

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.

Mangshan folk activities

1, boiled plum

In the south, every year in May and June is the season of plum ripening, the Three Kingdoms, there is "plum boiled wine heroes" allusion. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, with blood purification, intestinal, lowering blood lipids, eliminating fatigue, beauty, regulating the acid-base balance, enhance the body's immunity and other unique nutritional and health functions. However, most of the fresh plums taste sour, difficult to enter directly, need to be processed before eating, this process is boiled plum.

2, Anmiao

Anmiao is a customary agricultural activity in southern Anhui Province, beginning in the early Ming Dynasty. At the time of mango planting, after planting rice, in order to pray for a good harvest in the fall, all over the Anmiao rituals are held. Families with new wheat flour evaporation package, knead the surface into the shape of grains and six animals, fruits and vegetables, and then dyed with vegetable juice color, as a sacrificial offering, praying for a bumper crop, the villagers peace.

3, send the God of flowers

Lunar February 2 Flower Dynasty Festival to welcome the God of flowers. Mangkow is nearly May, the flowers began to wither and fall, the folk more in the Mangkow day held a ceremony to worship the God of Flowers, preserved to send the God of Flowers return to the position, while expressing gratitude to the God of Flowers, looking forward to the next year to meet again. This custom in traditional culture does not exist today, but the famous novelist Cao Xueqin's "Dream of the Red Chamber" mentioned.

4, playing mud

Dong young men and women in southeastern Guizhou, before and after the mango every year to organize a mud fight festival. On that day, the newlyweds are accompanied by good young men and women, collective rice-planting, rice-planting side of the fight, each other throw mud. At the end of the event, check the results of the battle, the most mud on the body is the most popular.

5, commonly hung wormwood

Wormwood has the role of repelling mosquitoes, to the hot weather in May, bacteria breeding is very strong, is the time of the wormwood out. People will cut the mugwort back from the fields and place it in front of their homes, and some people will dry the mugwort in the sun and then light it on fire and spin it around the house for a week, and the mosquitoes will be driven away.

Mangkasai festival diet

Because of the vastness of our country, the same seasonal climate characteristics are also different. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the center of China, the rainfall increases, the temperature rises, and enters the rainy season of continuous rain, the air is very humid, the weather is unusually hot and humid. Therefore, in the mango season not only to improve the field management of the rainy season, but also to pay attention to enhance physical fitness, to avoid the occurrence of seasonal diseases and infectious diseases, such as heat stroke, mumps, chicken pox and so on.

Specific therapeutic, recipe side of the mango season.

Tomato scrambled eggs:

[Ingredients] 300 grams of tomatoes, 3 eggs, salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar a moderate amount.

[Practice] tomatoes cleaned and sliced, eggs into the bowl and stirred.

The oil pan is hot, the first eggs scrambled, into the bowl; frying pan clean, hot oil, sugar into the pan melting, the tomatoes into the pan stir fry for 2 minutes, the eggs, salt into the pan with the frying for 3 minutes, put a little monosodium glutamate out of the pot can be.

Shiitake mushroom winter melon ball:

[Ingredients] Shiitake mushroom, chicken broth, starch, 300 grams of winter melon, vegetable oil, refined salt, ginger, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil, each appropriate amount.

[practice] mushrooms hydrated, washed, winter melon peeled and washed, with a steel ball spoon dug into the ball treatment with, ginger washed and shredded.

pot into the appropriate amount of vegetable oil hot, under the ginger stir-fried flavor, into the mushrooms continue to stir-fry a few minutes, pour into the appropriate amount of chicken broth boiled, will be under the pot of winter melon ball burned to cook, thickening with starch, stir fry a few times into the monosodium glutamate, drizzled with sesame oil, you can go out of the pot.

[efficacy] tonic stomach and intestines, in addition to the birth of the Jin.

Five flavors of wolfberry drink:

[recipe] vinegar sizzling schizandra 5 grams, 10 grams of wolfberry, sugar.

[practice] schizandra and cut wolfberry into a porcelain cup, with boiling water, warm immersion for a few moments, and then into the sugar, stirring can drink.