Folk activities and health tips for the Gu Yu festival weather

Grain Rain is the sixth of the twenty-four solar terms and the last of the spring, once the Grain Rain festival is over, spring is over and it's summer. The following is my compilation of folk activities and health tips for the Grain Rain Festival, which I hope will help you.

What are the Folk Activities in Guyu

Peony Flower Appreciation

Every year during the period of Guyu, it is the season when peonies are in full bloom, and we can appreciate the most beautiful moment of peonies in this season, so it becomes a very traditional custom to appreciate peonies during Guyu. Although there is less emphasis on this festival nowadays, the custom of enjoying peony flowers is still passed down, especially in Shandong, Henan and Sichuan, where peony flowers are in full bloom, there are still a large number of tourists flocking to enjoy the beauty of peony flowers in the Grain Rain period every year.

Walking in the valley rain

The custom of walking in the valley rain is not much passed down now, but it was a very traditional custom in ancient times. Every year, on the day of the valley rain, some women would go to walk on the streets and the roads, and most of the women in ancient times seldom showed their faces, and they might go out to walk around in several important festivals every year, such as the Shangyuan Festival or the time of the valley rain. Therefore, in the past, every time the rainy season came, women looked forward to going out to walk and feel the dying spring light.

Sea Ceremony

In ancient times, during the rainy season, it was the time when the water of the spring river warmed up, and most of the fish would swim up to the shallows, and this is the time when fishermen would start to make preparations for fishing in the sea after a while, so it was also a custom for a lot of fishermen to sacrifice to the sea during the rainy season, and on this day, in order to be able to go out to the sea safely in the following year and return home with full loads of money, they would hold a sea ceremony, praying for getting a good harvest. On this day, in order to be able to go out to sea safely and return home with a full load in the following year, they will hold a sea festival to pray for the blessing of the gods in the sea. This custom may not be very common in the inland area, but nowadays it's still very common in those coastal cities or villages, especially in the Jiaodong area, which is still very popular.

Eat toon

Toon is a very delicious plant, every year to the valley rain before and after the cilantro are very lush, growth is very good, so there will be a lot of people to eat toon at this time, toon is a kind of year only eat a season of food, so every year to this time, people's homes more or less will be fried on a few plates of toon, this time of the day toon is not only very fresh, but also very high nutritional level, has a lot of functions. This time of the year, the toon is not only very fresh, but also very high in nutrition, has very many functions, and can also improve the body's immunity. There are many other customs about the rain, we may not be able to list them all, because some places of the rain is more separate customs, in other places have not seen this custom, for example, in the Miao region, may also be held in the rain climbing festival, etc.

Although we do not know what to do, but we have a lot of experience in this field.

Although we may not be able to follow all the traditional customs of the ancient times, we can emphasize the traditional festival of Gu Yu, just as we emphasize our traditional culture, and it is only when we do, that these important traditions and cultures can be passed on.

Tips for maintaining health in Guyu

Diet:

Eat less hot and dry things, you should choose to eat some low-fat, high-vitamin, high-mineral foods, such as fresh vegetables, including chestnuts, spinach, marjoram, toon, dandelion, etc.;

Eat more food that is slightly cooler, such as cucumber, gazelle, mangosteen, Amaranth, celery, radish, green beans, loofah and so on. Drink less warm black tea, drink more green tea, chrysanthemum tea and other cool tea;

Drink a cup of water in the morning

Not only can replenish the body metabolism of the loss of water, washing has been emptied of intestines, but also effective prevention of cardiovascular disease. The amount of water you need to drink is 250 milliliters.

Beware of pollen allergy

Allergic people should prevent hay fever and allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma. Special attention should be paid to avoid contact with allergens. The presence of allergic reactions to the hospital in a timely manner.

Attention to moisture

After the rain, rainfall increases everywhere, the humidity in the air gradually increased, at this time to comply with the changes in the natural environment, through the body's own regulation to make the internal environment and the external environment changes in line, to maintain the normal function of the body's internal organs.

At this time, although the temperature began to turn warm, but the morning and evening is still cooler, early and late to pay attention to increase or decrease the clothes, to avoid cold and flu. At the same time, we should pay attention to early to bed and early to rise, do not excessive sweating, in order to regulate the dirty gas.

Valley Rain Three Waiting

Ping Begins to Born: The day of the Valley Rain, "Ping Begins to Born", Ping water began to meet. Ping, water plants, and water level, so called "Ping"; drift with the wind, so also known as "drift".

Turtle Dove: Five days after the rain, "Turtle Dove". Dove is the eagle, the cuckoo bird. Liu Bowen of the Ming Dynasty has a poem: "Singing turtledoves talk about the corresponding sound of the cuckoo, and is once again on earth spring." Turnips are weeds. But "the end of the spring valley blowing feathers", dove song signaling the end of spring, when the field echoed everywhere in its "family planted grain" earnest call.

Dai Sheng descended in the mulberry: another five days, "Dai Sheng descended in the mulberry". "Dai Sheng" has long hair on the top of its head, also known as the cockatoo, which falls on the mulberry tree at this time, when silkworms will be born.

Grain Rain Recipes

Rabbit liver and egg soup

Ingredients: rabbit liver 1 - 2, 1 - 2 eggs, salt and other seasonings in moderation.

Method: the rabbit liver sliced, with cornstarch, salt, ginger, soy sauce marinade; pot of water boiled into the marinated rabbit liver, and then into the egg stirred, boiled for a few minutes, add the appropriate amount of seasonings can be consumed.

Functions: nourish the liver and eyesight, clear the liver and relieve pain, suitable for night blindness and liver fever and eye red pain.

Rabbit liver is the liver of the rabbit, its flavor is sweet, bitter, salty, cold in nature, and belongs to the liver meridian. Its main components are protein, fat, vitamin A, calcium, phosphorus, iron and so on. Rabbit liver can nourish the liver and clear the liver to brighten the eyes, most suitable for people with liver fever caused by eye blossom, eye redness and swelling pain.

swim bladder turtle meat soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of swim bladder, 100 grams of turtle meat, salt and other seasonings.

Method: cut the turtle meat into pieces, and swim bladder with the soup, add seasonings, until the turtle meat is cooked, can be consumed.

Functions: tonifying the kidney and stopping the loss of urine, suitable for kidney deficiency night urinary polyuria, enuresis, chronic nephritis.

Turtle, also known as tortoise, is sweet and sour in flavor, flat in nature, and belongs to lung, liver and kidney meridians. Turtle meat is the main tonic kidney meridian, where the kidney qi is not in the middle or kidney yin insufficiency of disease, can always eat turtle meat. The swim bladder nourishes the kidney yin, and the two play a complementary role.

Contraindication: turtle meat should not be eaten with amaranth and pork.

Goji berries stewed eggs

Ingredients: 15 grams of goji berries, 1 - 2 eggs.

Method: First, beat the egg into the bowl and stir well, add wolfberry, add a little seasoning, stewed in water can be used.

Functions: tonic liver and kidney, bright eyes, suitable for liver and kidney insufficiency of lumbar and knee soreness, impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, eye vision blurred, dizziness, yin and blood deficiency.

Contraindication: Spleen deficiency and diarrhea eat less.