Xiaoman solar terms activities and matters needing attention
Small total solar term activity
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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.
Matters needing attention in xiaoman health care
1, stay up late less
Because after the solar term expires, the days are long, the nights are short, the temperature is high, the human body's metabolism is vigorous, the consumption is also large, and it is easy to get tired. If you stay up late for a long time, it will cause the disorder of people's physiological body and metabolic system, leading to excessive internal heat, which is easy to cause constipation, oral ulcer, sore throat and other symptoms of excessive internal heat. Therefore, in the hot summer, the effective way to prevent getting angry is to work regularly and avoid staying up late.
Step 2 pay attention to clothes
The temperature rises gradually after the small fullness, so the dress should be loose and comfortable, which is convenient for activities, cool and ventilated, and conducive to heat dissipation. Generally speaking, the smaller the body area covered by clothes, the faster the body temperature is lost, but in hot summer, don't mistakenly think that the more exposed you are, the cooler you will be, because only when the outside temperature is lower than the skin temperature will you feel cool when exposed. When the outside air temperature is higher than the skin temperature, the exposed area should not exceed 25% of the total surface area of the human body, otherwise the thermal radiation will invade the skin and become hotter.
Step 3 avoid catching a cold
After a short day, the temperature rises obviously and the rainfall increases, but it will still be cold in the morning and evening, and the daily temperature difference is still large, especially after the rain, to avoid catching a cold, especially when sleeping at night. Otherwise, the evil of cold and dampness stays on the skin and turns into heat, which is easy to cause skin diseases such as rubella and eczema; Staying in joints can easily lead to various rheumatic diseases. Although I don't usually sleep on rocks or cold ground now, air conditioning, summer sleeping mat, cold bath and short skirt may bring a lot of cold and dampness. If you accidentally come into contact with damp and cold, you can get rid of dampness by exercising or taking a hot bath.
5. Eat less cold food
After entering Xiaoman, the temperature rises, and people often like to use cold drinks to cool down, but excessive cold drinks can lead to abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases. Eating a cold diet at this time is likely to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms. Because children's digestive system is underdeveloped and the visceral function of the elderly is gradually declining, this situation is more likely to occur in children and the elderly. Therefore, we should pay attention to avoid eating too much cold food in our diet.
6. Don't lose your temper.
People tend to sweat in hot weather, but Chinese medicine has always regarded sweat as "the liquid of the heart". Excessive sweating naturally consumes heart yin, which leads to more deficiency of heart yang and makes people feel tired. This is called "eating gas by fire", that is, if the fire is too strong, the gas in our body will be consumed. Therefore, in the hot summer climate, we should always pay attention to the harm of heart fire to human body. First of all, just don't lose your temper and add fuel to the fire. In Su Wen's theory of four qi regulating the spirit, it is also mentioned that "making the will not be angry", that is, people should be careful not to lose their temper because of irritability. "If you let off your breath, you should let it out peacefully and freely, as if you were angry." .
7. Prevent skin diseases
Because of the hot and humid weather in summer, it is easy to breed mosquitoes and cause itchy skin or infection, so prevention is very important. This requires attention to family and personal hygiene. Change exposed bedding and close-fitting clothes frequently, and eradicate the "hotbed" where germs breed and spread in hot and humid weather.
8. Pay attention to food hygiene
In the full season, as the weather gets hotter, food tends to deteriorate and rot. "Illness comes from the mouth", so we should pay special attention to food hygiene. Try to avoid eating cold food, avoid eating overnight food, and stop drinking in summer to cool down, so as to effectively prevent abdominal pain, diarrhea and other diseases.
9, suitable for outdoor sports
The weather is cooler in the morning and evening after Xiaoman Festival, which is more suitable for outdoor sports, while walking, doing exercises and playing Tai Ji Chuan are the most suitable. In addition, playing chess, calligraphy, fishing and so on. It is also a good way to cultivate one's morality. In the summer after Xiaoman starts school, exercise should not be strenuous to prevent sweating from hurting Yin and Yang.
10, eat more vegetarian food.
After entering Xiaoman, the temperature continued to rise, and the diet was mainly light and refreshing vegetarian food. You can often eat foods with the functions of clearing away dampness and heat and nourishing yin, such as adzuki bean, coix seed, mung bean, wax gourd, cucumber, day lily, cress, auricularia auricula, carrot, tomato, watermelon, yam, crucian carp and grass carp.
1 1, eat less spicy, greasy and humid food.
After the small full, there is more and more rain, and the air is hot and humid, which is easy to cause diseases such as rubella, eczema and wet skin disease. Therefore, in terms of diet, we should eat less spicy, greasy and humid food. Such as raw onion, raw garlic, ginger, mustard, pepper, pepper, marine fish, shrimp, crab, cattle, sheep, dogs, geese, etc., should be properly ingested after the festival.
12, eat more "bitter"
It's better to take tonic than to eat bitterness on a hot day. In summer, many people will lose their appetite because of the heat. Bitter vegetables are not as good as "entering the heart meridian to reduce the heart fire, except the heart fire to calm the heart." People's taste buds are more sensitive to bitterness. Eating bitter food can relieve summer heat, strengthen the spleen and stimulate appetite, and promote digestion, which is exactly a multi-purpose.
What food does Xiaoman eat?
1. coix seed
When it comes to Xiaoman, people can often eat a little coix seed, mainly because it can induce diuresis, moisten the spleen and stop diarrhea, and the substances contained in it are also very beneficial to the human body. In normal times, once people have symptoms such as short urine, edema, beriberi and diarrhea caused by spleen deficiency, they can eat a little barley at this time.
2.plums
Plums should be familiar to everyone, and they are very common fruits. Eating a little plum properly can promote the secretion of gastric acid and digestive enzymes, and these nutrients can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, so eating plum regularly can increase appetite and promote digestion. The substances in plums can improve symptoms such as insufficient stomach acid, fullness after eating and constipation.
3. green plum
Speaking of Xiaoman, you can eat some green plums, which are rich in nutrition and sour in taste. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, which can purify blood, regulate intestines, reduce blood fat, eliminate fatigue and enhance human immunity.
4. Corn
Corn can reduce turbidity and diuresis, and it tastes good. It is a good choice for everyone.
5. lentils
It is beneficial to eliminate summer-heat and dampness, strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea, and is a good ingredient for eliminating dampness in summer.
6.purslane
It has the effects of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling, and is suitable for acute enteritis, dysentery, urine fever, hematuria, jaundice, gingivitis, etc.
7.water spinach
Water spinach, which is praised as "exotic vegetable" by Southern Herbs, can detoxify food. Skin acne and sores, and tumors in the body are all blood poison deposits. Eating water spinach can detoxify.
8. Garlic moss
Garlic moss is crisp and sweet when it is full. In summer, the temperature is high and there are many bacteria. Garlic moss grows at this time to kill insects and bacteria. This is a natural antibiotic given by nature. Moreover, allicin also has antioxidant effect.