Traditional Foods and Precautions for the Rainy Season

Rain Water, is the 2nd of the 24 solar terms. Doo refers to non; the sun reaches 330° of the yellow longitude; the festival is intersected on February 18-20 of the Gregorian calendar every year. Rain is a festival that reflects the phenomenon of precipitation, which is a reflection of the ancient farming culture for the festival. Below is my compilation of traditional food and notes for the rainy season, I hope it can help you.

What traditional food to eat in the rain

1, cans of meat

Rainy season on this day, the married daughter to return to her mother's home, to send their own cans of meat, which is simmered and stewed out of the cans of meat with a small fire, meat is crispy, which also put the sugar cane, jujubes, cinnamon, goji berries and other food, stewed out of the food is sweet and nourishing, containing a child's filial piety to the old man. It contains a piece of filial piety of the children to the elderly.

2, popcorn

The rainy season Hakka also has a custom is to "account for the color of rice". The so-called "account for the color of rice" is to fry glutinous rice flowers to divine the year's rice harvest, that is, to predict the color of the rice. If the color of the rice is good, it means high yield; if the color is not good enough, it means low yield. And "color" of good or bad, depending on how much popped out of the glutinous rice flowers. Exploded out of the white flowers of glutinous rice, the more is the year of rice harvest the better; and burst out of the rice flowers less, it means that the year of harvest is not good, the price of rice will be expensive. Later, the custom of popping glutinous rice to divine the harvest, in most places began to fade, so the end of the year evolved into the popcorn for the fried pile filling custom. Qu Dajun of the Qing Dynasty, "Guangdong New Words" recorded: "Guangzhou custom, the end of the year with a strong fire to open the glutinous rice, called the gun Valley. It is called "Cannon Valley", and it is used as a filling for the heart of the pan-fried rice piles. Pan-fried heap of glutinous flour for the size of the round, fried in oil." Popcorn that "gun Valley", Gannan Hakka more called "rice gun", is now a Hakka New Year's Eve must be a festive food. This "flower" and "hair" are phonetically similar, and there is an omen of wealth. In some places, Hakka people even use popcorn to worship the heavenly official Jade Emperor and the land social official, in order to pray for heaven and earth and the beauty of the wind and rain, the family grain harvest.

3, jujubes and other spleen-supporting sweets

China's ancient famous doctor Sun Simiao said: "Spring is appropriate to save acid and sweet, in order to raise the spleen." It means that it is advisable to eat less acid and more sweet in spring. Chinese medicine believes that spring is the time when liver qi is strong, eating more sour food will make the liver qi too strong and damage the spleen and stomach, so you should eat less sour food. And people in the spring outdoor activities than in winter, physical exertion is greater, the need for heat increased. But at this time, the spleen and stomach is weak, gastrointestinal digestive ability is poor, not suitable for eating greasy meat, therefore, the heat can be appropriate by the supply of sweets. Red dates is such a flavor of spring spleen good.

4, honey

According to Chinese medicine, honey is sweet, into the spleen and stomach two meridians, can complement the gas, laxative. Spring climate change, the weather at first cold and warm, people are prone to cold. As honey contains a variety of minerals, vitamins, and lung detoxification function, it can enhance the body's immunity, is the ideal spring tonic. Therefore, in the spring, if you can drink 1-2 spoons of honey every day, to a cup of warm water or add milk to take, the body has a nourishing effect.

5, spring bamboo shoots

In the south, spring bamboo shoots have a "vegetarian first product" reputation, from ancient times to the present are loved by people. For example, Shanghai people like to eat "wolfberry spring bamboo shoots", Nanjing people like to eat "spring bamboo shoots with chicken", Zhejiang people like to eat "southern meat spring bamboo shoots".

Precautions during the rainy season

A: should not be strenuous exercise

The rainy season is still early spring season, especially in the north, is still relatively cold, therefore, should not be done too strenuously exercise in order to allow the liver to slowly and gently rise to avoid because the body's energy (in the qi) consumption is too much to lose control over the liver, resulting in a sudden outward movement of the liver. This is to avoid losing control of the liver qi because the body's energy (middle qi) has been depleted too much, resulting in liver qi running out too much all at once and symptoms such as fever and fire occurring. You can do some walking, playing tai chi and other relaxing exercises.

Second: to do a good job of spring cover

Rain water festival weather is cooler, pay attention to the temperature according to the cultivation of clothing. At the same time, do not eat too much cold food or drink herbal tea, you can eat some appropriate warmer sweets to nourish the spleen and stomach to avoid the spleen and stomach cold. As Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, said, "It is advisable to save acid and increase sweetness in spring to nourish the spleen and qi."

Three: focus on mediation diet

Rainy season, dietary regulation is based on the spring climate warming, morning and evening colder, wind evil gradually increased, common mouth and tongue dry phenomenon, for this reason, we should eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, in order to replenish the body's moisture, eat less greasy products. Can eat more jujube, lotus seed, yam, leek, spinach and so on. Northern people eat more congee for good, can be made into yam congee, lotus congee, jujube congee and so on. This season, we should eat less mutton and other warm products.

Four: to be calm and peaceful

Meditation is smooth, neither disturbing the heart blood, nor damage to the heart gas. The heart is full of energy, so you can nourish the spleen, nourish the spleen to strengthen the stomach. The weather in the spring is very changeable, we must maintain a calm and normal state of mind. At the same time, we also need to clear the mind, do not want to work, in order to maintain the vitality.

The rain is the three waiting for which are three

China's ancient will be divided into three rain: "one waiting for otter sacrificed to the fish; the second waiting for the Hongyan to come; the third waiting for the grass and trees to sprout."

The rainy season, the otter began to fish, the fish on the shore as the first sacrifice after the appearance of food; five days later, the geese began to fly back to the north from the south; another five days, in the "silent" spring rain, the grass and trees with the upward spiral of the yang qi in the ground and began to pull out shoots. From then on, the earth gradually began to show a thriving scene.

A wait, otter sacrifice fish

Otter, also known as the water thief or fish-eating. Fish sacrifice, that is, the river fish sacrificed to the sky. Rainy season, the ice began to melt, otter inside the water is easy to break the ice. Every time this time. The otter will place the fish they caught from inside the water on top of the trees, and arrange them in a circle around themselves, and they will arch their two front paws in front of their bodies, and turn around inside the circle like a prayer offering to heaven and earth and thanksgiving to nature.

The second wait, the geese come

Geese, know the time of the bird, hot return to the north, cold to Jiangnan. The weather in the south is warm, the geese began to fly back to the north from the south, migratory birds are with the heaven and earth yin and yang qi of the change and the exchange, in order to adapt to the climate.

The third wait, the grass and trees sprouting

Heaven and earth, yin and yang, the emergence of vitality, the grass and trees to take advantage of this vitality, began to sprout, in the "silent" spring rains, grass and trees will begin to pull out shoots. From then on, the earth gradually began to show a thriving scene.