Specialty Foods and Nutritional Methods for Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, is held at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, which is the 104th day after the winter solstice. It is one of the traditional Chinese festivals, and one of the most important sacrificial festivals for ancestor worship and grave sweeping. Below is my compilation of the special foods and ways to maintain health during Qingming Festival, I hope it can help you.

Characteristic Foods of Qingming Festival

Zi Pui Yan

Among the food for the festival in the north, there is a kind of Zi Pui Yan, which is named after Jie Zi Pui. During the Song Dynasty, people used flour and jujube paste to make swallows, and hung them on the door with willow strings to summon the spirit of Jie Zi Tui, so they were called Zi Tui Yan. Yulin, northern Shaanxi, Yan'an Qingming steamed steamed buns, also known as the old buns, like the helmet of the ancient generals, as big as half a catty to a catty, breaded with eggs or dates, there is a top, the top around the pasted face flower. The flower is a swallow, insect, snake, rabbit or four treasures made of flour. This is for the men to eat. The women eat long pike buns, and unmarried girls eat buns. Children eat Yan, snake, tiger and other noodle flowers, the boys love to eat tiger bun. This custom is still in circulation.

Green dumplings

In the south of the festival food, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas to eat green dumplings are very distinctive. According to legend, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Li Xiu-cheng was defeated by the Qing army, dressed as a farmer to drive oxen to plow the land to escape the Qing soldiers. But the Qing soldiers set up troops in the village to search, he could not enter the village, but hungry, let the villagers Zhang San to find food for him. Zhang San saw the wormwood and had an idea, so he boiled the wormwood and added glutinous rice, and steamed out the green balls to send to Patrick Lee, who had a full stomach. The story spread, and it became a new food at the time of Qingming. Later more production methods, but also more delicious. Jiangzhe area Qingming also often eat red woe and so on.

Run cake

In the southern part of Fujian Qingming eat run cake, also known as spring rolls, spring cake. The practice is to very thin pastry for the skin, to green vegetables such as bean sprouts, leeks, celery, carrots and dried beans, shredded meat and other shredded as a filling, sprinkled with powdered sugar, seaweed pastry and other powders rolled into a tube can be eaten.

Saizi

The original name of the cold utensils, originating in the Wei and Jin dynasties. Saizi is deep-fried pasta, crispy and delicious, some sprinkled with sesame seeds is better. It is said to be ring cake in "Qimin Yaojiao". Now in the south, north and northwest Uyghur, Hui people still have this food.

Qingming snail

In the South, Qingming snail has not yet reproduced, the most plump and fat, there is a "Qingming snail, against a goose" said. Qingming to eat snail meat called picking green, after eating the snail shells thrown to the roof, said the rolling sound can scare away rats, easy to raise silkworms. Can be fried with shells, can also be cooked and picked out of the snail meat cold or fried.

Festival eggs

Qingming Festival to eat eggs, known as eating festival eggs. Festival eggs are generally divided into two kinds: one is the painting of eggs, eggs, duck eggs boiled, with cress juice as a dye, depicting flowers on the eggshell. After a few days after the eggshell is peeled off, the egg white will show a blue floral pattern, very beautiful. Another is the carving of the egg, is the egg, duck eggs cooked, first with a pen in the eggshell painted with floral patterns, and then carved with a knife, the whole egg hollow, and then the egg white, egg yolks in order to take out. The fineness of the carving is marvelous, both for eating and viewing.

Ching Ming Festival health methods

First, may drink some chrysanthemum tea

Before and after the Qingming Festival, may wish to drink some chrysanthemum tea. According to Chinese medicine, chrysanthemum can clear the wind and heat, and has the effect of calming the liver, preventing colds and lowering blood pressure. And modern pharmacological research believes that chrysanthemum has the function of expanding coronary arteries, enhancing myocardial contractility and changing myocardial ischemia.

Chrysanthemum and mulberry with tea, mulberry has blood soft liver, benefit the role of the kidney moisturizing lungs, you can receive the effect of the liver and lungs with nutrition. However, it must be noted that long service chrysanthemum, too much excretion, and will make the liver wood lost nourishment, in turn, hurt the liver, so drinking chrysanthemum tea should be moderate.

Second, "hair" things can not eat

After spring, the body of the liver with the deepening of the spring and more and more, at the time of the Qingming to reach the most prosperous. As the saying goes, if the liver is too strong, it will have an adverse effect on the spleen and stomach, hindering the normal digestion and absorption of food, but also cause emotional disorders, poor qi and blood flow, thus triggering a variety of diseases.

Therefore, in terms of diet, it is appropriate to reduce the sweet and increase the Xin, complement the essence of qi, eat less "hair" things, eat less bamboo shoots, chicken and other liver injury food. The bamboo shoots are cold, slippery and consume gas, people have pain, their gas is more weak, and eating bamboo shoots is more gas, leading to gas deficiency aggravation, easy to cause disease. And clinically also found that eating bamboo shoots is easy to cause coughing, resulting in hemoptysis, asthma recurrence. In addition to not eating bamboo shoots, you should also eat less chicken. Chicken moving wind to help the liver fire, causing liver wood hyperactivity, eat more easy to cause chronic hepatitis and hypertension and other diseases recurrence. You can eat more yams, tomatoes, potatoes, amaranth and other foods and fruits.

Third, hypertension patients eat less liver food

Before and after the Qingming Festival is hypertension prone period, people should reduce and eliminate abnormal emotional response, empathy, keep a relaxed mood. For hypertensive patients, liver food is most avoided during the Qingming Festival. It should also emphasize a low-salt diet, cooking should be as little salt as possible, in order to light, at the same time should increase the intake of potassium, more vegetables and fruits.

In sports, we should pay attention to appropriate, choose a soft action, movement in the quiet tai chi as the first choice of exercise; avoid taking part in activities with competition, so as to avoid emotional excitement; avoid weight-bearing activities, so as to avoid holding the breath and cause elevated blood pressure, etc.

Four, the tai chi is the most popular form of exercise.

Fourth, go out trekking, "move" should be moderate

Qingming Festival and trekking, kite flying, swinging and other relaxation customs. However, trekking mountaineering must be measured. In addition to long-term persistent exercise people, this season does not advocate people greatly "move up". The elderly activity heart rate should not exceed 105 times / minute, breathing should not exceed 24 times / minute, young and middle-aged people vary from person to person.

Suffering from heart disease, hypertension, acute and chronic bronchitis, emphysema, nephritis, anemia, tuberculosis, fever, acute infections, as well as in the stone activity period of the patient, do not try to hike.

Fifth, to the Qingming work routine in advance

In order to make the yangqi better hair, people should consciously adjust their work routine, get up earlier. 7 to 9 o'clock is the epoch, according to Chinese medicine, at this time is the stomach meridian is the most prosperous, such as not getting up early will lead to yangqi wanting to send but can not be sent to the internal fire disturbing the heart, lungs, and the brain, which can lead to the human heart agitation, dry throat, dizziness, eye turbidity and other discomforts. Therefore, we should try to adjust our work and rest time forward, get up early and actively engage in outdoor activities and physical exercise, not only can stretch the muscles, smooth blood, but also can be free of heart, happy to nourish sex, enhance the ability to resist disease.

The food culture of Qingming Festival

In ancient times, the day of the Qingming Festival, there is the habit of eating "molasses barley porridge". According to "Jing Chu chronicle" records, cold food "ban fire for three days, molasses barley porridge". The practice of this congee is to grind barley into wheat paste, cook it, then mix the crushed almonds into it, and then cut it into cubes after condensing. It is eaten with a sugar mixture. "Molasses (tang)" is sugar thinning. This is the earliest recorded Qingming Festival food.

The Northern Wei Jia Si Fo in the "Qi Min Yao Shu", also introduced a Qingming Festival cold food, called "cold utensils", in fact, is a kind of sweet flour cake. "To honey water ulcer surface, if there is no honey, take the jujube cooking juice. Cow and sheep cream also get. It is also good to use milk of cows and goats to make the cake crispy and beautiful." This is also a cold food that tastes sweet and crispy.

By the Five Dynasties period, in addition to the general cold food congee cake, but also added the production of "art" of the custom of eggs. Qingming Festival "art" eggs are roughly divided into two kinds, one is "painting eggs", that is, in the eggshell dyed with a variety of colors, similar to today's "red eggs", but the color is different. The other is "carving eggs", in the eggshell carved into a painting, which requires a high degree of skill, this egg is only for enjoyment.

Today, the Qingming Festival is known as the Cold Food Festival, because the food people eat at this time is mostly cold. "Cold Swallow" is the traditional noodle food for the Cold Food Festival, and it is said that in order to commemorate the death of Jie Zi Tui who was burned to death, the Duke of Jin ordered that no fire should be allowed for three days to cook, so the people made this kind of cold food to eat. "Cold Yan" is also called "Zi Tui Yan", can still be seen in the northern folk traces. Tokyo Dreaming Records" recorded: "with the surface of the date imprisoned flying swallows, willow branches through it, inserted in the lintel, called Zi Push Yan." The practice of this food in Shanxi and other places is to combine flour with water, pinched into the shape of swallows, steamed in a cage, eaten after the cold, so it is called "cold swallow", and on the day of the Qingming Festival, with willow threaded, hanging on the lintel in honor of the jiezi push.

There is also a noodle called "Zifu" in southwestern Shanxi, is in a big bun (big steamed bun) inserted an egg, or walnut, and then pinch out the shape of snakes, scorpions, centipedes, etc., wrapped around the egg next to the shape, made a good shape, on the cage steamed. On the day of the Ching Ming Festival, "Zifu" is used as an offering to ancestors at their graves. After the sacrifice, everyone shares the food. It is said that eating Zifu will bring happiness to future generations.

Huoxian in Shanxi and Jiaodong in Shandong, there is a kind of face food called "Snake Panpanpan", which is made into a single-head or double-head snake, steamed and cooled, and then taken to the ancestors' graves as an offering during the ancestor worship. At the time of the ritual, people take the "Snake Panpanpan" and circle around the grave first, and then eat it after the ritual. Eat to bite off the head of the snake first, meaning "to eliminate the head of the poison, to avoid disaster.

The date cake and deep-fried noodle cake is also the food of the Qingming Festival in the north, which used to be called "Zi push cake". The practice of the first flour fermentation, kneaded into a dough, made into a variety of shapes, such as swallows, mice, snakes, or simply round cake, steamed in a cage, but also cold food to commemorate the mediator Zi push.

The south is generally made of glutinous rice flour Qingming Festival food. In Zhejiang Lin'an people often use tender lotus mixed with glutinous flour, made into the shape of a dog, steamed called Qingming dog. The family has a few people to do a few, each person to eat one. Folk proverb says: "Eat the Qingming dog, a year healthy to the head." It is also an auspicious figure. In Suzhou and Shanghai, there is the custom of eating green dumplings. The Qing Jia Record" cloud: "the city sells green dough, cooked lotus root, for the residents of the Qingming ritual first product ...... now customary green dough red lotus root, can be eaten cold, still following the legacy of the fire ban." Nowadays, the green dumplings are usually made of green juice extracted from vegetables, dyed green glutinous powder outer skin, inside the bean paste and other fillings; or with green Ai and powder, steamed into Ai dumplings, also known as green dumplings. Green dumplings have been handed down to the present day, and are still charming.

People today not only use it to sweep the tomb and pay homage to their ancestors, but even in general daily festivals or weddings and funerals, you can see this food. Today, Beijing Taoxiangcun pastry store, every Qingming also have this "green dough" for sale. In Chengdu, Sichuan Province, fried rice is used to make dumplings, which are threaded and dyed with colors, called "Joyful Dumplings". In the past, there were many stores and stalls in the area from the north gate of Chengdu to the Huanxian Temple, where they were sold. The Qing Dynasty's "Jin Cheng Zhu Zhi Zi" has a poem that reads: "Huan Xi Nunnery Huan Xi Duan, when you buy it in the spring suburbs, you will be relieved of your worries. The village mash play is more beautiful than Jin Sheng Li, and there are many people who are drunk in the foot basin." This should be a vivid portrayal of the joyful group.