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Customs of Hainan Zhongyuan Festival Eat chicken shit vine to protect the peace to add fortune?

The 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in the Yuan Festival, is one of several important festivals in China, in the Hainan region, people in the coming of the Yuan Festival will be through the burning of paper, sky lanterns, etc. to worship ancestors, but also to eat a said to be able to keep the peace and add good fortune to the food, called "chicken poop vine". This name is not very elegant, but the custom has been passed down in Hainan for a long time, today's old calendar for you.

In Hainan, in the Yuan Festival, also known as the ghost festival, half of July, from the first to fifteenth of July up to half a month, people will burn paper, sky lanterns and other ways to pay homage to their ancestors. The chicken shit vine, because of its special flavor, is also chosen by Hainanese people as a holy object to ward off evil spirits and drive away ghosts. Therefore, people in Qionghai eat chicken shit vine every family on the first day of July every year in the hope of preserving peace and adding good fortune.

Chicken shit vine can be said to be a kind of plant that can obviously eat by its face value, but people's impression of it is often ruined in the unique name and smell, yes, the reason why the chicken shit vine is called chicken shit vine is because of its leaves rubbed together, there is a faint smell of chicken shit.

But chicken shit vine is actually able to be used for medicinal purposes, as a kind of trailing vine plants, chicken shit vine likes to grow in the climate of warm, humid bushes, and the vitality is very strong. Its leaves rubbed with the hand rotten, the first smell has a chicken shit flavor, so the name chicken shit vine. But long smell has a refreshing fragrance.

The root of chicken shit vine has the function of driving away wind and suppressing cough, expelling phlegm and stopping diarrhea, and treating colds. Chicken shit vine clear heat, anti-inflammatory, detoxification, moisturize the lungs and wake up the brain, folk called earth ginseng. The leaves are pounded and powdered for soup to cure cough. Its potato pieces can cure consumption. Leaves can also cure dysentery, its young stems and leaves can be steamed, and the sweet taste of its stem juice can also be sucked! The juice of the fruits of the chicken shit vine can be used to treat poisonous insect stings and applied to the affected area. Can also be frostbite medicine.

In recent years, with the enhancement of people's health care awareness, especially the recognition of the nutritional value of wild non-polluting plants, some of the nutritious local food has been unearthed, the name is not known in line with the concept of green food chicken poop vine rice flour has been on the shelves of the commodities, into the hotels and restaurants in a dignified manner.

The past unknown "chicken poop vine Pozi", also because of the concept of green food, has become the most famous snacks in Qionghai, in 1999, after the local chef's packaging and enhancement, but also listed as "Chinese famous snacks" among the ranks.

Now look at the chicken poop vine slightly indecent name, but in the eyes of tourists have become alternative snacks, necessary for a taste for fast. In Qionghai, chicken shit vine is a night snack deservedly protagonist. In summer, a bowl of chilled coconut milk chicken shit vine poi seed, ice pleasantly sweet and sticky; in winter, a bowl of hot chicken shit vine rake, accompanied by the aroma of brown sugar and ginger, can dispel the day's tiredness.

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