What traditional food does Xiaoman eat? What are the folk customs of Xiaoman?

Bitter herbs

It is said that Wang Baochuan ate bitter vegetables in a cold kiln for 18 years in order to survive. In the old society, farmers relied on bitter vegetables to satisfy their hunger every spring. Bitter bitter vegetable, better than jejunum. On the way to the Long March that year, the Red Army used bitter vegetables to satisfy its hunger and survived one difficulty after another. In the Soviet area of Jiangxi, there is a song that says: Bitter vegetables and yellow flowers are both wild vegetables and food. The Red Army ate them and went to the battlefield, heroically killing the enemy and winning the battle.

Folklore:

1, offering sacrifices to Che Shen

Sacrificing the car god is an ancient small custom in some rural areas. In related legends, Erche God is a white dragon. People put fish, incense sticks and other items on the waterwheel to worship. The most interesting thing is that there will be a glass of white water during the sacrifice, which will be poured into the field during the worship, meaning to bless the prosperity of the inkstone.

2. Sacrifice silkworms

According to legend, Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god, so when Xiaoman is in the solar term, there is a silkworm blessing festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. China's farming culture is a typical "male ploughing and female weaving". The raw materials for women's weaving are mainly cotton in the north and sericulture management in the south. Silk needs to be spun from cocoons, so sericulture is extremely prosperous in rural areas in southern China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Extended data

Xiaoman health care should pay attention to diet. People consume more body fluids in summer, so they can choose products such as lily and ebony to nourish yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst. Xiao Man pays equal attention to summer heat and dampness in season, which has a great influence on the spleen and stomach. Pay attention to clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, strengthening spleen and regulating stomach, and eat more foods that promote diuresis, strengthen spleen and nourish stomach, such as rice kernels, mung beans, wax gourd and water celery. And it should be a soup that can stimulate appetite.

It should also be noted that after the temperature rises, people often like to eat cold drinks to cool off the heat, but excessive consumption of cold drinks has a great impact on the gastrointestinal tract, and food is easy to deteriorate when the weather gets hot, so we should be alert to the occurrence of acute gastroenteritis during this period.

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