What should the baby pay attention to in the slight cold season?
It is the custom of old Nanjing to eat vegetable rice with slight cold. People in Nanjing attach great importance to slight cold. People will cook rice with glutinous rice, ginger, short leg yellow, sliced bacon, sausage or diced salted duck. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold is yin evil, slight cold is the coldest solar term in a year, and it is also the most prosperous period in Yin Qi. The glutinous rice in Nanjing vegetable rice can replenish the middle jiao, strengthen the spleen and warm the stomach, and enhance the human body's ability to resist cold evil; Ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, warming lung and dispelling cold. In addition, the specialties of Nanjing, such as short leg yellow, sausage and salted duck, are homologous in medicine and food, delicious in taste, and especially warm after eating in winter, which can be comparable to Laba porridge.
Eat glutinous rice
Traditionally in Guangzhou, Xiao Han eats glutinous rice in the morning. In order to avoid being too glutinous, it is generally 60% glutinous rice and 40% fragrant rice. Chop bacon and sausage, stir-fry peanuts, add some chopped onions and mix in rice.
Laba porridge
Eating Laba porridge is an important folk custom in the "slight cold" solar term in diet. "Yanjing Times" records that "Laba porridge is cooked with yellow rice, white rice, glutinous rice, millet, water chestnut rice, chestnuts, red cowpea, peeled jujube paste and so on. And dyed red peach kernels, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, white sugar, brown sugar and miscellaneous grapes for external use. All the above foods are sweet and warm, and have the effects of regulating the spleen and stomach, invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating qi and nourishing blood, expelling cold and strengthening the body, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. The ancients in China called porridge rice the first tonic in the world, and thought that eating porridge could prolong life. Li Shizhen said in Compendium of Materia Medica that porridge can "replenish qi and promote fluid production, replenish spleen and stomach, and treat deficiency cold". Zhang Lei's "The Story of Porridge" also said: "If you eat a large bowl of porridge every day, it will be empty on an empty stomach, and the grain will make it. The tonic is not refined, and it is very soft and greasy, which is consistent with the stomach. "