Dragon Boat Festival health food and taboos

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, heavy Wu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival. Although the name is different, but the people around the custom of the festival is the same. The following is my compilation of the Dragon Boat Festival health food and taboos, I hope it can help you.

Dragon Boat Festival food

1, red beans

We can add an appropriate amount of red beans in the package dumplings. Red beans are not only rich in protein and a variety of nutrients, and it is good for water and moisture, and blood pus, swelling and detoxification effects. The summer climate is hot and rainy, red beans can help the human body water dampness, detoxification, and green beans complement each other, can be called a good summer medicine.

2, pear

Pear is rich in nutrients, can protect the liver, help digestion, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the patient daily can be appropriate intake, can help the liver condition recovery.

3, jujube

package dumplings will be put into 1-2 jujube, jujube is rich in vitamin C, with the five organs of An Qi and blood effect, is the daily choice of liver disease patients.

4, salted duck eggs

Eat salted duck eggs is also a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, salted duck eggs salty and slightly cold, can nourish yin, clear the lungs, can be assisted in relieving coughs, sore throats, toothache, drainage and other diseases. Salted duck eggs not only has a medical role, and can effectively supplement the human body in the summer salt deficiency and nutrient consumption, but also summer dietary supplements and good food Oh. Although we usually caution friends with liver disease to avoid pickled foods, but salted duck eggs can be appropriate intake, but 1 is enough, do not intake too much Oh.

5, tomatoes

Tomatoes are rich in vitamin C, lycopene, liver dysfunction patients can choose tomatoes as a daily meal.

6, Ai

Many places at the Dragon Boat Festival will also use rice flour or flour fermentation with Ai together with steamed buns. This custom is very good, because Ai contains a variety of volatile oils, with an aromatic odor, can be insecticidal, for a variety of bacteria or some skin fungi have inhibitory effect, so the ancient Dragon Boat Festival in addition to the disease to drive the plague, Ai are indispensable.

7, garlic

Garlic also has the effect of liver protection, liver dysfunction can be used to assist in the treatment of patients, but raw garlic can not be too much intake, so as not to stimulate the gastrointestinal tract, injury to the liver. Garlic fried amaranth is many families in the Dragon Boat Festival is a very favorite vegetable. Garlic has a "natural antibacterial" reputation, amaranth is sweet and cool, with heat detoxification, in addition to the efficacy of dampness dysentery, garlic fried amaranth complement each other, is the prevention and treatment of dysentery and other summer intestinal diseases indispensable good medicine good vegetables.

Little-known taboos of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Festival taboo celebrations

The most important content of the Dragon Boat Festival is to worship the ancestors. The sacrifice is inevitably sad, so this day is not suitable to say blessings to others, of course, it is not suitable to hold and participate in business, marriage, celebrations and other festive activities. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, this day is the "Yang Gong Jubilee Day", can never be chosen to do for the opening, construction, marriage, signing contracts and other important matters of the day.

2, Dragon Boat Festival day taboo river swimming

As May for the "bad month", heavy five is an unlucky day, so some places in this day taboo swimming, especially taboo to have drowned in the place of swimming. Because in the Dragon Boat Festival day "drowning ghost" the most fierce, need to find a double "return to the sun", so there are cast zongzi into the river, so that it shares the custom of free of its as a double.

3, the Dragon Boat Festival taboo eat mother's family dumplings

In ancient times, daughters married, long lived in her husband's home, it is rare to see their parents. And from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, there is the custom of returning to the mother's home at the Dragon Boat Festival. But in the Shandong area, there is a rumor that the married girl to go to her mother's home, do not have to go back to the in-laws before the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, can not be in the mother's home over the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the folk saying, "ate the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings in the mother's home, the death of the whole family is not left.

4, during the Dragon Boat Festival is strictly prohibited room

Ancient people believe that May is the month of nine poisons, and Dragon Boat Festival is the first day of nine poisons. Heaven and earth gas field is not correct, will inevitably affect the human body and mind, so such as in the nine poisonous day of intercourse room, must be in the evil poisonous injury to the body. Therefore, the ancient training strictly prohibit the Dragon Boat Festival, and the provisions of the first five from the first day of May, the woman should return to the peace, spend time in the parents' home, husband and wife separate, and this day is designated as "return to the peace of the day".

5, Dragon Boat Festival anti-poison gas attack

The Dragon Boat Festival was also mentioned poisonous month, from the lunar calendar meteorological point of view, it is the summer solstice or so, so it is also the most vigorous days of the year Yang Qi. From the point of view of the five elements, any kind of five elements too strong or too weak, will form the evil, will be on the natural climate or personal health, constitute a threat and harm. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival on this day need to be in the door of the room, inserted Ai, inserted peach technology, inserted calamus to drive away the ghosts; fumigation of Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine and so on.

6, the Dragon Boat Festival children's taboos are very much

Dragon Boat Festival is not only a heavy five evil day, and the physical and mental health of the child is very large, so the taboos about the child is more, for example, said the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for the birth of a child; within the age of one week of the Dragon Boat Festival babies should be sent to their grandmother's home to hide the disaster; children in the Dragon Boat Festival to eat two duck eggs in the morning, and sprinkle andrographis wine on the children! to drive away insects and evil spirits, to protect health. In the northern part of the area, children have to wear incense bags to drive away the custom of peace. And children wear the incense bag can not be lost, legend has it that if a child lost wearing the incense bag, within a year there will be a catastrophe. After the Dragon Boat Festival, children should be worn by the bag of incense thrown into the water, so as to avoid fire.

The history of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival

Thousands of years of Chinese history, but also the history of the evolution of zongzi.

The first evolution was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when rice was packed in bamboo tubes and wrapped in triangular or quadrangular shapes with solitary leaves (the leaves outside the white pods), reed leaves, or palm tree leaves. In the last year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Customs" written by Ying Shuai said: "the common millet wrapped in masked mushroom leaves, to the thick ash juice to cook, so that rotten, on the fifth of May and the summer solstice to eat it." We not only learned from the practice of brown, but also know the East Han Dynasty zongzi is not only the festival of traditional food, people also often eat zongzi summer season, see the East Han Dynasty zongzi is just a common food.

To the Western Jin Dynasty, the dumplings gradually become the traditional food of the Dragon Boat Festival. During this period, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi has been very popular. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the bread in the zongzi, just millet or glutinous rice with jujube, chestnut and other things, usually in the Dragon Boat Festival in the family package.

During the Tang Dynasty, zongzi not only became folk food, but also treasured by the palace. Tang Ming Huang has a poem: "four times the flower competition clever, nine zongzi fight new." It seems that Tang Ming Huang ate zongzi, feel good, zongzi evaluation is quite high, at the same time can also let us vaguely feel the magnificent weather of the Tang Dynasty. Because of the small dumplings, even caused by the emperor's poetic elegance. Not only that, every Dragon Boat Festival in the Palace will "make powder ball, corn, stored in the gold plate", let people with a small bow shot, shot which eat which, shot not in the person shall not eat, probably the Tang Emperor's pleasure, from this song and dance to eat rice dumplings triggered by the game it. And Tang Yao He's "all the lively fishing song, wind and corner zongzong incense" poem, indicating that the zongzi has become a popular food in the folk market. At this time, the zongzi filling added into a variety of nuts, the capital Chang'an also appeared to specialize in the production and sale of zongzi store, "Geng family brown, white as jade" is the Tang Dynasty poet Duan Cheng style ate a geng store zongzi made after the evaluation.

In the Song Dynasty, the brown rice dumplings were filled with dried persimmons, ginkgo nuts, and adzuki beans. The outside is wrapped in pod leaves and potato leaves and cooked. In addition, the zongzi recipe had a "skillful zongzi" a, there is ai leaf soaked in rice and into the "ai Xiang zongzi", visible zongzi varieties at this time has gradually increased.

The Ming Dynasty, there are rice dumplings wrapped in reed leaves, rice dumplings filled with types of bean paste, pork, peach kernels, walnuts, honey and so on. The emergence of meat filling meat dumplings, so that the variety of dumplings have a new breakthrough.

Qing Qianlong era, there is a "ham dumplings" meat dumplings, so that the meat dumplings more and more varieties.