Does anyone know about the 24 solar terms? What should I eat?
Beginning of spring eats spring rolls.
"beginning of spring" is the first of the 24 solar terms and the beginning of spring. At the beginning of spring, men, women and children should eat spring rolls in the morning. Spring rolls evolved from the custom of eating spring rolls that day in ancient beginning of spring. Eating spring rolls is also called "biting spring". It is said that you can bite "spring" and then lead to the meaning of biting "youth", so that youth will stay forever. People in spring will eat some fresh vegetables on this day, not only to prevent diseases, but also to welcome the Spring Festival.
In the north, beginning of spring pays attention to eating spring cakes. The earliest spring cakes were pancakes baked or steamed with wheat flour. When eating, it is often eaten with bean sprouts, spinach, leeks and fried noodles, or with spring cakes and Chinese cabbage. Legend has it that eating spring cakes and all kinds of vegetables wrapped in them will make farm animals flourish. Some areas believe that eating spring cakes wrapped in celery and leeks will make people work harder, live longer and have a more prosperous family business.
Over time, there are spring rolls and spring cakes. Spring rolls and spring cakes are actually just two kinds of dough with different methods. Although the thickness is different, the eating method is similar. They are all made of various vegetables and meat rolls, but northerners prefer to eat spring cakes, while Jiangnan people prefer to eat spring rolls.
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Gregorian calendar every February 18 or so is a rainy solar term. At this time, the temperature rises, the snow melts and the precipitation increases, hence the name rain.
The last few days of the solar term are what the folks say, "On February 2nd, the dragon rises". People are eating dragon beard cakes and thinking of the dragon that was punished and crushed at the foot of the mountain because of drought and rain.
According to the old custom in the northern region, on February 2, everyone should have a haircut, which means "the dragon looks up" and is auspicious. It is called "scraping the tap" to give a haircut to children. Women are not allowed to move needle and thread, for fear of hurting the "dzi beads"; People can't draw water from wells either. They should fill their water tanks on the first day, or they will touch the tap. Ordinary people eat noodles, spring cakes, popcorn, pork head and so on. On this day. Different regions have different foods, but most of them are related to dragons. Generally, the name of food is added with the title of "dragon". For example, eating jiaozi is called eating "dragon ears"; Eating spring cakes is called eating "Longlin"; Eating noodles is called eating "dragon beard meat"; Eating rice is called eating "dragon son"; Eating wonton is called eating "longan"
Eat and roll in a daze.
After the shock, the earth recovered and the yang rose. As the saying goes: "After a fright, all insects die." During the Dragon Festival, many activities to drive away drugs are very popular among the people. People eat snowballing usury, which means "when a pest dies, people turn over".
A kind of bean flour cake, Beijing Muslim snack. Knead steamed yellow rice (or glutinous rice) into a ball, sprinkle with fried soybeans, add red bean stuffing, roll into strips, sprinkle with sesame seeds, osmanthus fragrans and sugar. Because the food stalls in the Qing Dynasty were made and sold now, the bean noodles were sprinkled as they were made, just like the donkeys in the country rolling on the spot, covered with loess, so they got the name of humor.
According to the custom of old Beijing, people always like to buy "snowballing usury" to taste in February of the lunar calendar, so there are many vendors and pushers who manage this kind of food, among which the white food stall in Tianqiao market and the "rice cake tiger" (tiger takes the blessing) are the most famous.
Eat spring vegetables at the vernal equinox
March 2 1 is the "vernal equinox" solar term in the traditional 24 solar terms. The vernal equinox refers to the equal division of day and night, each of which is 12 hour; In ancient times, it was also considered as the midpoint of 90 days in spring, and the vernal equinox was the same day and night in the northern and southern hemispheres.
There are many folk stories about the diet around the vernal equinox, and Chinese medicine also pays attention to it, commonly known as "eating spring", "biting spring" or "gnawing spring".
In the old days, there was a custom of "eating spring vegetables at the vernal equinox". Spring vegetable is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as wormwood. On the vernal equinox, the whole village went to pick spring vegetables. Picked spring vegetables are usually cooked with fish fillets at home, which is called "spring soup". There is also a saying that "spring soup fills the dirty and washes the liver and intestines." The whole family is safe and healthy. "In the spring of the year, people still pray for peace and health at home.
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During his stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Jiangnan had the custom of eating green jiaozi. Green jiaozi is to mash a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" to squeeze out juice, then mix this juice with dry pure glutinous rice flour, and then wrap it in jiaozi. Jiaozi's stuffing is exquisite sugar bean paste, and a small piece of sugar lard is added when filling. Jiaozi cooked it and steamed it in a cage. When they come out, brush the cooked vegetable oil evenly on the surface of jiaozi, and you're done.
Green glutinous rice balls, green as jade, sticky and soft, fragrant, sweet but not greasy, fat but not full. Green jiaozi is also a necessary food for people to sacrifice their ancestors in Jiangnan area. Because of this, green jiaozi is particularly important in the folk food customs in the south of the Yangtze River.
Grain Rain picked tea and ate Toona sinensis.
According to the custom of picking tea in southern Grain Rain, it is said that drinking tea on this day in Grain Rain will clear fire and ward off evil spirits and improve eyesight. Therefore, no matter what the weather is in Grain Rain, people will go to Chashan to pick some new tea to drink.
Toona sinensis is eaten in northern Grain Rain, and it is the season for Toona sinensis to go on the market around Grain Rain. At this time, Toona sinensis is mellow and refreshing, with high nutritional value. It is said that Toona sinensis is tender as silk before the rain. Toona sinensis has the functions of improving immunity, invigorating stomach, regulating qi, relieving diarrhea, moistening skin, resisting bacteria, diminishing inflammation and killing insects.
Eat duck eggs in long summer.
May 5th or 6th every year is the long summer of the lunar calendar. At this time, "Dou refers to the southeast, Wei is the long summer, and everything has grown up since then, so it is named long summer." At this time, the longitude of the sun is 45 degrees. In astronomy, Chang Xia said that he was about to bid farewell to spring.
People often say that summer is "bitter summer". Why is it called bitter summer? It is also because eating more "bitter" things in summer is conducive to the "five elements" of the five internal organs.
It is said that eating eggs in the long summer is called "summer tonic", so that people will not lose weight in summer, have enough energy and work effectively. The old Chinese doctor said that salted duck eggs are strong in summer, which coincides with the nutritionist's statement. Nutritionists say that duck eggs are rich in inorganic salts such as calcium and iron, which are higher than eggs and fresh duck eggs, and are the first choice for calcium and iron supplementation in summer.
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Xiaoman means that the seeds of summer crops are full, but not yet mature, just small and not yet full.
May is a "poisonous month", so we should reduce acid and increase bitterness, and suffer more.
Spring breeze blows, bitter vegetables grow, and wasteland is a granary. It is also the season of bitter vegetables around Xiaoman, which is one of the earliest edible wild vegetables in China.
Fools eat plums.
During this period, the weather was hot and it entered a typical summer. Astronomical experts say that awn seed is the busiest season for farming in a year, and it is also the season with more precipitation.
In the south, May and June are the season when plums ripen, and there is an allusion of "Plum Boils Wine as a Hero" in the Three Kingdoms. Plum contains a variety of natural high-quality organic acids and rich minerals, and has unique nutritional and health-care functions such as purifying blood, regulating intestines, reducing blood fat, relieving fatigue, caring skin, regulating acid-base balance and enhancing human immunity. However, most fresh plums are sour and difficult to eat directly, and they need to be processed before they can be eaten. This process is to boil plums.
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The summer solstice in May of the lunar calendar (June 2 1 Sunday and 22nd of the Gregorian calendar) is the longest day of the year. Sacrificial ceremonies were held in the Zhou Dynasty, believing that plagues, famine years and people's hunger in the country could be eliminated.
In the north, people make pasta on this day, and there is a saying that "winter solstice wonton, summer solstice noodle". Northwest China, such as Shaanxi, eats zongzi and chrysanthemums as ashes in this solar eclipse to prevent wheat from being damaged by pests.
Some places in the south eat porridge and wonton at noon. In summer solstice, there are many places to eat dog meat.
Eat new rice in summer.
Every year around July 7th, when the sun reaches the longitude 105, it starts with a slight summer heat. The summer heat is the eleventh of the twenty-four solar terms. "Summer heat" means heat. Slight summer heat is a solar term reflecting the heat degree in summer.
Taste new rice. Generally, there will be a new eclipse at the end of the year after the slight summer heat. In rural areas, after newly cut rice is ground into rice, the rice is prepared for offering sacrifices to the grain gods and ancestors, and then everyone eats it together and tastes new wine together. Cities generally buy a small amount of new rice for cooking in old rice, plus newly listed vegetables.
Eat fairy grass in summer.
The summer solar term is usually on July 22nd or 23rd of the Gregorian calendar, which is the hottest solar term in a year.
Folk proverb: if you eat fairy grass in the midsummer of June, you will live like a fairy and never get old. Chiffodil is one of the famous snacks in Taiwan Province Province. You can eat it cold or hot. The appearance and taste of Xiancao is similar to another popular snack in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and it also has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials. But this kind of food is taboo for pregnant women.
There is also a traditional folk tonic method, which is to eat broilers in summer. Broiler refers to a cockerel that can't crow, but has just matured but hasn't been bred yet; Or a cockerel weighing 1 kg for three months to 1.5 kg, which has never been bred. Later, there was a special variety called broiler. Broiler contains certain growth hormone, which has a good nourishing effect on children in growth and development period and middle-aged and elderly people with decreased hormone level.