Traditional food and health tips for the Spring Festival season

Lichun, one of the twenty-four solar terms, "Lichun" is the meaning of "beginning", Lichun is the beginning of spring, every year on February 4 or 5 when the sun reaches 315 degrees of the yellow longitude for Lichun. Below is the traditional food and health tips for the spring season that I have organized for you, I hope it can help you.

Spring Festival traditional food

1, spring plate

Spring plate, also known as the "five Xin plate", is a fine cut of five kinds of spicy lettuce plate and become. The Compendium of Materia Medica, said: "five Xin dish, is the new year's day, the spring to green onions, garlic, leeks, polygonum artemisiae, mustard pungent and tender vegetables and eat, take the meaning of welcoming the new." This custom spread to the Tang, Song, Jin, Yuan. For example, the Yuan Dynasty Yelu Chuzai has "spring day in the post as poor spring plate" poem, which said that the lotus root, peas, green onions, Artemisia vulgaris, leeks and vermicelli for spring plate.

Ningjin area with green onions, garlic, pepper, ginger, mustard cut and seasoned food, known as the five Xin plate, it can be wine with meals, but also as gifts to each other. There are also gifts of green leeks, yellow citrus.

2, spring cake

Tang "Four Seasons Treasure Mirror" recorded: "Spring, food reeds, spring cake, lettuce, the number of 'vegetable plate'." Visible Tang Dynasty people have begun to try spring plate, eat spring cake. The so-called spring pancake, also known as lotus leaf pancake, is actually a kind of hot noodle pancake - with two small pieces of water, the center of the oil, rolled into a pancake, after cooking can be uncovered into two. Spring pancakes are used to roll vegetables to eat, and the vegetables include cooked and fried vegetables.

Spring rolls

3, spring rolls

In addition to spring pancakes, spring rolls are also a festive food often eaten by people on the day of spring. Spring rolls are evolved from the ancient custom of eating spring plate on the day of spring. In the Song Dynasty, there was a kind of "rolled pancake", which is a transitional type of spring pancake and spring rolls. Yuan dynasty "home must use things class whole collection" has appeared will be rolled in spring pancakes wrapped in stuffing deep-fried after eating records. By the Qing Dynasty has appeared in the name of spring rolls.

Spring rolls practice is to use the cooked round thin pastry roll wrapped in filling, into a long strip, and then fried in a frying pan until golden brown and floating. The filling can be meat or vegetarian, salty or sweet.

4, radish

According to the Han Dynasty, Cui Shi "four people month order" book records, China has long had "spring day to eat lettuce ...... to take the meaning of the new" dietary customs, and after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the so-called "bite spring". "Bite spring" mainly refers to eat radish on the day of spring, such as the Ming Dynasty Liu Ruoyu "discretion in the Zhi - dietary good Shang Jiliao" contains: "to the next day when the spring, no noble and lowly are chewing radish," the name is 'bite spring! The name is 'Biting Spring'. The Qing dynasty Fucha Duncan Chong "Yanjing times" also contains: "playing spring is spring, is the day of the rich family more food spring cake, women and other more buy radish and eat, said 'bite spring', that can be but the spring sleepy also."

Spring health tips

Spring season Yang Qi gradual birth. And the yin and cold is not exhausted, is in the yin retreat yang long, cold to heat to the turning period, is the transition from cold to warm. Spring climate change is more drastic, the temperature difference is very large. Because from winter to spring, people's ability to resist disease and climate adaptation is weak, epidemic infectious diseases and more, a little inattention may be infected, especially immunocompromised people. Therefore, we need to pay more attention to prevention in our daily life.

First, spring health and living taboos

Spring after a period of time, the weather at first warm and cold, climate change is still large. At this time, the human body with the arrival of spring also began to become lax, the resistance to cold evil weakened, so, early spring should not be prematurely reduced cotton clothing, the old and weak dress change should be particularly cautious, not sudden reduction.

"Spring and Autumn Freeze" is a folk health proverb, winter March, grass and trees withered, frozen insects, the body's metabolism slowed down accordingly, resistance to decline, easy to get sick, but also easy to lose Yang Qi, a little wind and cold, easy to hair hangover. If you sweat at this time, you should wipe off in a timely manner, do not open your chest to let the wind blow. Spring appropriate cover a cover, can reduce the disease, especially common respiratory infectious diseases.

In order to avoid the occurrence of spring diseases, in preventive measures, first of all, we must comply with the changes in the climate to increase or decrease the number of clothes; the second to often open the window, so that the indoor air circulation, to keep the air fresh; third, pay attention to rest and strengthen the exercise, improve the body's ability to defend. In addition, pay attention to the mouth and nose health care. In terms of living should also follow nature, early to bed and early to rise, appropriate increase in outdoor activities, so that the body's winter state began to adapt to the arrival of spring, so that their spiritual mood and nature to adapt, and strive for physical and mental harmony, full of energy.

Second, the spring health focus on liver protection

According to the properties of nature, spring is wood, and the liver corresponds to the Chinese medicine that the liver is the main cause of emotion, so in the spring of the health is mainly liver protection, regulating the mood of the main, keep the mood is smooth, to prevent the "liver fire rise".

The mood of the heart, not only can prevent the liver fire on the over, but also conducive to the growth of Yang Qi. To guard against anger, avoid depression, to be open-minded, optimistic, and maintain a good state of mind, are conducive to the liver. Chinese medicine believes that spring should pay special attention to the liver for maintenance, in order to comply with the time of day. Therefore, in the diet to take into account the spring belongs to the characteristics of Yang Qi began to rise, suitable for eating more food with the nature of the sweet and sweet dispersal. Such as greens, parsley, leeks, onions, mustard greens, white radish, Chrysanthemum, daikon, fennel, cabbage, celery, spinach and so on with the characteristics of the sweet and dispersing.

Third, the spring health "5 words"

coat: after the spring still have to "cover"

Although the spring means the advent of spring, but the winter cold temperature does not immediately rise, at least 10 days to 15 days of The transition time. If you take off your winter clothes too early for spring clothes, it is easy to change in a cold and hot temperature changes, because of the cold is not adapted to, which leads to colds, bronchitis, arthritis and other diseases. So after the spring short also want to "cover" 10 to 15 days.

Early spring, you should know the temperature change in advance, appropriate increase or decrease in clothing.

Food: eat more warm food after spring

Spring liver, it is appropriate to eat more warm dispersal of food, such as more black beans, green onions, ginger, leeks, shrimp and other favorable yang qi hair food to seasoning; but also less acidic and more sweet, and more sweet taste of sweet and moist foods such as jujubes, lilies, pears, cinnamon, silver, radish, and so on.

After the spring spicy hot pot to eat less, mutton, dog meat, and too spicy and fried food should be eaten less, because these foods may be loss of Yang Qi, lead to fire.

Live: more open windows to keep the air fresh

The weather in early spring has just turned from cold to warm, a variety of disease-causing bacteria, viruses and subsequent growth and reproduction, in order to avoid a variety of diseases in the spring, preventive measures are essential. "Home life, pay attention to often open the window, so that indoor air circulation, keep the air fresh." Around 8 a.m., when the temperature is generally lower and the air quality is better, it is a good time to open windows for ventilation. In addition, the room should also be at least after the nap and night before opening the windows to ventilate.

line: go to the countryside walk

After the spring, may wish to go to the countryside walk, breathe fresh air, regulate the physical and mental mood.

Prevention: prevention of agitation, pay attention to mental health care

"Spring is the time when the human body liver and Yang exuberance, the mood is prone to impatience, so every year after the spring, mental illnesses patients will increase, mostly anxiety, mania, and other diseases".

Dietary principles of the Spring Festival season

1, diet light - eliminating the spring fire

Spring people are prone to fire, appearing yellow tongue, bitter mouth and dry throat, etc., so the diet should be light, avoid greasy, cold and stimulating food. People with obvious symptoms of fire can eat some fire-clearing food, such as green bean soup, honeysuckle tea, chrysanthemum tea, lotus heart in water.

2, yellow and green vegetables - spring sleepiness

"Spring sleepiness" makes people physically tired, lack of energy, should eat more red, yellow and dark green vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkin, tomatoes, green peppers, celery, etc., on the restoration of energy, eliminate Spring sleepiness is very good.

3, fine selection of food - less disease

After the gradual increase in temperature in spring, bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms have begun to reproduce, increased vitality, easy to invade the human body and cause disease. So in terms of diet, you should take enough vitamins and minerals. Tapioca, kale, broccoli and other fresh vegetables and citrus, lemon and other fruits, rich in vitamin C, has an antiviral effect; carrots, spinach and other yellow-green vegetables, rich in vitamin A, with the protection and enhancement of the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract and the respiratory organs of the epithelial cells of the function.