Recipes for the twenty-four solar terms

In this day folk customary to eat radish, ginger, green onion, dough cake, known as "bite spring", spring also has its own food, mainly spring cake, radish, five Xin plate, etc., in the south is popular to eat spring rolls.

2, rain:

The first can eat soybeans and soybean products: rich in protein, calcium, iron, phosphorus, vitamin B, a moderate amount of fat and a small amount of carbohydrates, very beneficial to liver repair.

The second can eat watermelon: have clear heat and detoxification, remove the annoyance of thirst, diuretic role in lowering blood pressure, rich in large amounts of sugar, vitamins and proteases. Protease can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein.

Third eat seafood: such as whitebait, yellowtail, silverfish, and crustaceans such as oysters, crabs, etc., can enhance the immune function, is conducive to the repair of damaged liver tissue cells. But choose to cook properly, otherwise it may cause food poisoning, steaming temperature should reach 100 degrees. The heating time should be more than half an hour. Patients who are allergic to seafood, then you need to avoid eating, you can eat more mushrooms, silver fungus, kelp, seaweed and so on.

3, hibernation:

Hibernation eat pear: farmers in hibernation day to eat pears, meant to part with the pests. Spring back to the earth, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy to make people dry mouth.　

Eating eggs in hibernation: it is said that because the day of hibernation to sacrifice the white tiger, and the white tiger usually fangs open mouth, only to feed the egg, full of food, it will not hurt people.

Eating fried beans in hibernation: people soak soybeans in salt water and then put them in a pot to be fried, making crackling noises, symbolizing the sound of bugs jumping in the pot when they are fried by heat.

4. Spring Equinox:

Eating spring vegetables. In the old days, there was a custom in Siyi called "eating spring vegetables at the spring equinox". "Spring vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the villagers called "spring artemisia". On the day of the spring equinox, everyone in the village went to pick spring vegetables. When searching in the field, most of them are young and green, thin, about as long as the palm of your hand. The harvested spring vegetables are usually home and fish slices "rolling soup", the name is "spring soup".

5, Qingming:

Qingming eat Ai recognized as a must-have traditional snack for Hakka people on the Qingming Festival. The first thing is to pick back the fresh and tender mugwort wash, put in a pot to cook, then fish up, drain the water, boil the mugwort water to be reserved for spare. Then the boiled mugwort will be chopped into grass mud, grass mud chopped the finer the more rotten the better. Mugwort mud chopped, with the water of cooking mugwort, plus glutinous rice flour and mix together into a ball. Then the prepared sesame, bean, peanuts and other fillings into the dough, and then sealed and kneaded into a round, long and other shapes, into the pot of water steaming for 15-20 minutes can be removed from the oven.

6, grain rain:

Grain rain before and after a period of time is precisely the toon on the market in the season, this time the toon, the new buds bloom, purple and red fat leaves flooded with tender green, oily and thick, exudes a unique fragrance, is the most seasonal golden dishes. Toon is generally categorized into purple toon buds and green toon buds, with purple toon buds being the best. Toon is rich in protein, fat, sugar and vitamin C, etc., nutrition and medicinal value is very considerable, can improve the body's resistance, has the qi, stomach, moisturizing, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and other effects.

7, Lixia:

Lixia eat Lixia rice, every Lixia the day before, the children to the neighboring households to ask for a bowl of rice, said "Touxia summer rice". Digging up some bamboo shoots, "stealing" some broad beans, using some garlic cloves. On the day of summer, the rice and ingredients will be cooked in the open air, put plums, cherries, etc. on the rice, and send it to the people who gave it to the family a few days ago, and a small bowl for the first family. Folk believe that children eat, can prevent heat stroke.

Summer rice with bamboo shoots, peas, broad beans, amaranth, and other condiments, containing the meaning of "five grains", eat five-color rice in the summer, there is a year of good health symbolism.

8, small full:

Small full eat bitter vegetables. The day of the small full of bitter vegetables show. Bitter vegetables contain protein, fat, carbohydrates and a variety of inorganic salts, vitamins and other nutrients, can clear heat, cool blood, detoxification, boils, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, constipation, colds and so on have a very good prevention and treatment; sterilization and anti-inflammatory, jaundice hepatitis, pharyngolaryngitis, bacillary dysentery, colds and fevers, and chronic bronchitis, tonsillitis and so on have a certain efficacy; but also to prevent and control diabetes, cervical cancer, rectal cancer etc..

Bitter cabbage after boiling water, cold, soup, fried food or noodles steamed food can be, such as cold bitter cabbage, bitter cabbage liver soup, stir-fried bitter cabbage, steamed bitter cabbage. Be sure to blanch in boiling water before eating, so that oxalic acid can be removed, conducive to the absorption of calcium.

9, mango:

Mango eat eggs, not only can withstand the "Resistance and Resistance" test, but also bring life to a successful conclusion. Jiangxi area also has the custom of drinking tea during the Mangseo festival, to ensure that the whole summer fresh, not sleepy. In the south, every year during the mango people will be boiled into wine to drink plums, as a way to achieve beauty, eliminate fatigue, enhance the body's immune system, and so on.

10, summer solstice:

Summer solstice to eat lettuce, cold noodles: in the past, the old Beijing has "winter solstice wontons summer solstice noodles," the saying, every year to the summer solstice you can eat lettuce, cold noodles, eat these cold food can effectively help reduce fire appetizer, promote appetite.

11, small summer:

Small summer eel. As the saying goes, "summer eel race ginseng", the old Nanjing preaching in the summer day to eat eel. Eel was born in the mud cave in the waterfront, before and after a month of summer eel is the most nourishing flavor. According to Chinese medicine, eel is warm and sweet, and has the effect of tonifying the gas, tonifying the liver and spleen, removing wind and dampness, and strengthening the bones and muscles. From the composition, eel protein content is high, iron content than carp yellowtail more than double, but also can reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood. Small summer season is the most appropriate to eat eel, can prevent summer food indigestion caused by diarrhea, but also to protect the cardiovascular. In addition, summer is rheumatoid arthritis, chronic bronchitis and other diseases in remission, eat some eel and the role of the winter and summer treatment. Summer is also a season of digestive diseases, dietary modification should be moderate, light, nutritious appropriate.

12, summer:

The summer eat grass. Many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating fairy grass in the summer. Proverbs say "June summer to eat grass, live like a fairy will not be old", grass jelly and roasted grass is also common in Xiamen people cool summer products.

13, Autumn:

Autumn eat eggplant most fire, eggplant is not only inexpensive and beautiful popular vegetables, or a kind of therapeutic good. Chinese medicine believes that the eggplant is cool, taste sweet, have to clear the heat and stop bleeding, swelling and pain, remove wind, wide intestinal gas and other functions, so in this season to eat some eggplant can reduce the fire, in addition to the autumn dryness.

14, summer:

Summer eat pumpkin beef stew. Especially suitable for lung discomfort, coughing friends, not only can prevent colds, but also moisturize the lungs and qi, cough and wheezing and moisturizing therapeutic effect.

Pumpkin is rich in carotene and vitamin E, which can improve the symptoms of autumn dryness. It can also moisturize the lungs and benefit the qi, resolve phlegm and pus, cure cough and stop wheezing, and have diuretic and beauty effects.

15, white dew:

White dew eat longan. Fuzhou, Fujian Province, there is a traditional custom called "white dew must eat longan". The folk meaning is, in the white dew this day to eat longan has a great tonic body effect. Because longan itself is beneficial to the spleen, nourish the blood and tranquilize the spirit, moisturize the skin and beauty and other effects, but also can treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and many other diseases.

16, autumn equinox:

Autumn equinox crab. Autumn equinox is the crab meat is the most fertile, but also the most nourishing time. Crab is a top-class valuable aquatic products, meat tender flavor. Not only that, the crab also has a very high nutritional value, its protein content than pork, fish are several times higher, and rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamin A and other nutrients.

There are many kinds of crabs, and there are about 600 kinds of crabs in China, which can be divided into two categories: freshwater and seawater. The most famous freshwater crabs are "hairy crabs", commonly known as river crabs, hairy crabs, and freshwater crabs, which generally mature in September and October, when the fall equinox occurs every year.

17, cold dew:

Cold dew eat chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemums are in full bloom at this time, in addition to the autumn dryness, some areas have the custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine", this custom with the ascension, gradually moved to the Chrysanthemum Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemums plus glutinous rice and wine curds, and is known as "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its flavor is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing the liver, brightening the eyes, strengthening the brain, and slowing down the aging process.

18, frost:

Frost eat beef. Beef has a high nutritional value, the ancient "beef tonic gas, work with astragalus" said; "Compendium of Materia Medica" pointed out that beef can "Anzhong Yi gas, nourish the spleen and stomach, fill the weak and strong health, strong muscles and bones, edema, in addition to dampness". Chinese medicine believes that beef into the spleen, stomach meridian, is a good supplement for the spleen and stomach. And Western nutritional science that beef protein content is high, and low fat content, so the flavor is delicious, loved, enjoy the "meat in the proud son" of the name.

Beef can nourish the spleen and stomach, especially now in the fall need some stomach food, beef and kidney function, men can eat more. At the same time, you can also eat some small fried beef, stewed beef brisket, beef bone marrow stewed yam.

19, winter:

In the south of China, winter people love to eat some chicken, duck, fish, meat, and in Taiwan on the day of winter, the streets of the mutton stove, ginger duck and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families will also stew sesame oil chicken, four things chicken to replenish energy.

Northern people love to eat dumplings on this day. Dumplings have the meaning of "the time of the handover", and the winter is the day of the intersection of autumn and winter, so the tradition of eating dumplings in the winter, in the north has been passed down for hundreds of years. It is also said that when you eat dumplings in winter, you can't eat them right away after you take them out of the pot, but you have to put them one by one in a clean sieve and let them dry a little bit, so that the water drips off. This is to pay homage to the God of the land before eating, to thank him for his generous giving in the fall.

20, Snow:

Small snow eat lamb. Mutton is sweet and warm in nature and enters the spleen and kidney. Winter consumption of mutton, can be said to be two for one: one to increase the body heat, to ward off the cold, and the second is a great benefit to the deficiency of cold disease. Braised or in soup, you can maximize the flavor of lamb.

21, Daxue:

Daxue eat jujube cake. Red date cake is a kind of jujube cake, unique flavor, jujube fragrance, delicate taste, sweet aftertaste. It contains vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins and other nutrients, which can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, benefit the qi and promote fluids, but also protect the liver, increase muscle power, and nourish the face and prevent the effects of decline. Because the red date cake price is suitable, and rich in nutrients, so widely loved by the modern consumer groups, in the folk "often taste red date cake, body health spirit fresh" and "a day to eat three jujube, a hundred years old, not show old" said.

22, winter solstice:

Winter solstice eat dumplings. Dumplings are the most suitable for winter food, especially in northern China, winter solstice to eat dumplings, has been passed down for thousands of years of history, dumplings are the most representative of northern China's cuisine, which can be boiled and eaten, you can also eat steamed, people eat dumplings in the winter solstice this day means good luck, but also in many areas there are "winter solstice dumplings, summer solstice noodle" of the saying. The first time I've ever seen one, I've seen it in my life.

Soup dumplings are eaten on the winter solstice. In southern China, dumplings are the most suitable food for the winter solstice, said as early as the ancient Song Dynasty, the southern region on the winter solstice to eat dumplings custom, winter solstice day to eat dumplings symbolize the family reunion, and dumplings are made of glutinous rice ball-shaped food, which has a variety of fillings, such as black sesame and peanut butter, people can eat to supplement the deficiency, but also to strengthen the spleen and appetizers, eaten in the winter solstice, the temperament and stomach have a lot of benefits. It is good for regulating the spleen and stomach when consumed on the winter solstice.

23, small cold:

Small cold to eat Lapa congee. Xiaohan festival has an important folk custom is to eat "Lahai congee". Lahai before and after the cold season, at this time to eat a meal so rich in hot porridge, can stimulate the appetite, but also can increase the body heat, and play a role in warming the stomach and eliminating cold.

24, Dahan:

Dahan eat jujube. Small jujube has a great effect, not only can replenish blood and skin, but also has a very good effect of gas, can effectively fight the cold, in the big cold time to eat is suitable. In the jujube also contains a lot of trace elements and nutrients, can effectively improve the body's immunity, has a very good health effect.