Activities and health preservation methods of Xiaoman solar terms
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In some rural areas, there is an ancient small custom, that is, offering sacrifices to the car god. Legend has it that "Car God" is a white dragon. During Xiaoman Festival, people will put fish, incense sticks, white water and other items on the waterwheel for sacrifice. Sprinkle white water on the ground to keep it moist and not dry.
Busy meetings in summer
In some areas, summer parties were held during the Xiaoman period, that is, market transactions, including mules and horses, grain, farm tools, cloth, groceries and snacks. The main purpose is to exchange and buy production tools, buy and sell livestock, and make full preparations for the summer harvest. It lasts about three to five days, and sometimes a troupe is invited to sing and entertain.
Look, the wheat is a little yellow.
During Xiaoman period, there was a custom in Guanzhong area, that is, the married daughter should visit her family. Just like the festival, the daughter and son-in-law go to her parents' home with gifts to express their condolences, mainly to greet their parents' preparations for the summer harvest and see if there is anything they need to help. The other is to tell my parents that there is still surplus food at home when the green and yellow are not picked up. I hope my parents can rest assured. After the summer harvest, the mother will also visit her daughter to see her work.
Silkworm sacrifice
Legend has it that Xiaoman solar term is the birthday of the silkworm god, so there are silkworm praying festivals in areas where silkworms are raised in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Since ancient times, the raw materials of rural textiles are mainly cotton in the north and silk in the south. Silk is obtained by sericulture, so sericulture is very prosperous in southern rural areas of China, especially in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
Because silkworms are difficult to raise, people usually hold a festival to pray for silkworms in April to pray for a bumper harvest. Many places in the south have "Silkworm Mother Temple" and "Silkworm Temple". During the silkworm prayer festival, sericulture families will go to these temples to worship and provide rich dishes, drinks and so on. And make it look like a cocoon with flour, and then put the "cocoon" made of flour on it with a handful of straw, hoping to have a good harvest.
Quadrilateral gyro
Before and after Xiaoman, people often eat a kind of seasonal food called "Twisting", which means that everything goes well and everything is auspicious, so it is widely loved by ordinary people.
This "twist" is actually a kind of noodles. In Xiaoman period, wheat was immature, but full. People choose some full and hard grains, cut them off, take them out, fry them in a pot, and then grind them into noodles about an inch long with a stone mill with grinding teeth. Then add sesame sauce, minced garlic, shredded cucumber and other seasonings to these noodles, and make a delicious and unique "twist".
Youcha noodles
During Xiaoman period, there was also a northern seasonal snack called Youcha noodles. People also cut the ear of wheat with relatively large particles and grind it into flour. Stir-fry the flour until it is yellow with a small fire, then take it out, put oil in the pot, burn it until it smokes, and immediately pour it into the cooked flour and stir it evenly. Finally, stir-fry black sesame seeds and white sesame seeds, stir-fry walnut kernels, peel them, chop them into fine powder, and pour them into the fried melon seeds and stir them evenly.
Xiaoman solar terms regimen
1, daily health
Developing a regular routine can make your body work as usual, go to bed early and get up early, fall asleep on time and stop staying up late. At the same time, at night, it is too cold, lamenting that the air conditioning temperature is too low, which may lead to the invasion of various rheumatic diseases. When going out to do business, don't sit on a hot car seat, or sit on a hot chair or stone, so as to avoid hot poison attacking your skin.
2. Emotional health
Emotional health preservation is very important to human health. Traditional Chinese medicine has a set of mature theory of emotional health preservation, which holds that only when emotions are in harmony can qi and blood and viscera be coordinated, thus maintaining the harmony of yin and yang. In a small school full of integrity, we should keep a good mood and a broad mind to avoid irritability and emotional heatstroke. High temperature and long sunshine in summer can easily lead to hypertension, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and even sudden death. Only by calming down can you keep healthy.
3. Diet and health
The coming of Xiaoman solar term means that skin diseases have entered a period of high incidence, so the diet should be based on refreshing and light vegetarian food, and often eat foods with the function of clearing away dampness and heat. Such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, wax gourd, loofah, cucumber, day lily, cress, water chestnut, auricularia auricula, lotus root, carrot, tomato, watermelon, yam, snake meat, crucian carp, grass carp and duck meat. However, foods with strong sorghum flavor, sweet and fatty taste, and dampness-generating and dampness-assisting foods should not be eaten more, such as animal fat, fishy fish, hot and sour products, fried and smoked things, such as raw onions, raw garlic, ginger, mustard, pepper, pepper, fennel, cinnamon, leeks, eggplant, mushrooms, marine fish, shrimps and crabs.
4. Exercise for health
In terms of sports, Xiaoman solar terms may wish to do Baduanjin health exercise. Baduanjin does not exercise much, but it has many functions. Although you can practice in all seasons, it is especially suitable for summer. Many people will strongly feel that the temperature rises before and after Xiaoman, and there may be "bitter summer" symptoms such as being upset and not wanting to drink. Practicing Baduanjin won't sweat too much, it can calm the mood and have a cooling effect.
What traditional food does Xiaoman eat?
1. Eat wild vegetables
Eating wild vegetables is the custom of Xiaoman. Bitter vegetables are one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China. Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. Zhou Shu: Xiaoman Day Bitter Vegetable Show. The Book of Songs: Bitter comes sweet, under the sun. Compendium of Materia Medica: (Bitter vegetables) Long-term use, peace of mind and qi, intelligence and fitness, anti-aging. In medicine, sowthistle is often used to treat fever, and the ancients also used it to sober up. Sophora alopecuroides is spread all over the country, and it is called Patrinia in medicine. Kuding tea is bitter with astringency, astringent with sweetness, fresh and refreshing, cool and smooth, rich in nutrition, containing vitamins, minerals, choline, sugar, riboflavin and mannitol, and has the functions of clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying.
2. Wheat cake
Since ancient times, it has been said that Xiaoman is the birthday of the silkworm god. Because there are many silkworms in the south, Xiaoman is an important time node for the hatching of young silkworms and the growth of mulberry leaves, so it pays more attention to "offering sacrifices to the silkworm god". At this time, people will use rice flour or flour as raw materials to make wheat cakes and wheat cakes shaped like cocoons and enjoy them together, hoping for a bumper harvest of cocoons.
3. Bitter gourd
Momordica charantia is a good food in summer, which is rich in nutrients, mainly containing protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and other nutrients. Immature tender fruit as a vegetable, mature pulp can be eaten raw, cold, fried meat and grilled fish, crisp and refreshing, with unique flavor. Bitter gourd has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, clearing away heat and pathogenic factors, relieving fatigue, clearing away heart fire and improving eyesight, benefiting qi and strengthening yang. Momordica charantia contains protein in addition to bitter quinine. It is found that protein can stimulate immune cells and has anti-cancer effect.
4. Lycium barbarum seedlings
Lycium barbarum seedlings are also called wolfberry tips. Chinese medicine believes that Lycium barbarum seedlings are cool, sweet and bitter, and have the functions of clearing away heat, nourishing yin and improving eyesight. It is suitable for treating fever due to yin deficiency, thirst, hand and foot fever, liver and kidney deficiency, dry eyes, toothache due to deficiency of fire, etc.
5.dandelion
Dandelion, also known as Veronica, Dictyophora and so on. , a whole grass with roots of Taraxacum mongolicum, a compositae plant, is widely distributed all over the country. Dandelion is a nutritious vegetable, which mainly contains protein, fat, carotene, riboflavin, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dandelion is sweet, bitter and cold, and enters the liver and stomach meridians, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, stopping diarrhea, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver, strengthening stomach and lowering blood pressure.