In China, there are many festivals on March 3 of the lunar calendar, which is a very special traditional festival. On this day, many people will cook eggs with shepherd's purse, so why eat shepherd's purse on March 3? What is the origin of eating shepherd's purse on March 3?
Why does March 3 use shepherd's purse to boil egg?
Eating shepherd's purse and boiled eggs can ward off evil spirits.
It is said that on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, eating boiled eggs with shepherd's purse can ensure a healthy and disease-free year. Although the old saying is exaggerated, the nutritional value of shepherd's purse is also an indisputable fact.
Shepherd's purse is generally used to boil eggs. The old people adhere to the folk saying that after eating it, they can avoid evil spirits, prevent the strange forces and gods from approaching, and prevent children's headache and fever. Adults eat it to strengthen their body and ears.
On the third day of the third lunar month, Chinese people have the custom of eating vegetables and boiled eggs. Shepherd's purse, also known as the field vegetables, etc., is a kind of wild vegetables growing in the field. Although it is wild vegetable, it is delicious and nutritious. There is a folk saying: 'March 3, shepherd's purse is the elixir. "March 3, shepherd's purse boiled eggs. 'spring is the season for shepherd's purse. Shepherd's purse in spring is also a long-standing folk custom in China. In the book of songs, there is a chant of "sweet as a shepherd's purse"; in xinqiji, there is also a verse of "peaches and plums in the city worry about the wind and rain, and shepherd's purse in the head of the river in spring".
Because shepherd's purse's homonym is "gathering wealth", therefore, according to the folklore, on the third day of March, when sacrificing to the ancestors, with the help of the spirits and wealth of the ancestors, people will clean the fresh shepherd's purse and bundle it into a small bundle, put in eggs, dates, wind balls, and then match with two or three pieces of ginger, boil a big pot, and the whole family will eat a bowl, which can not only deliver wealth, but also prevent and control it As time goes by, headache and dizziness form a folk custom of dietotherapy. It's said that rheumatism and fire can be removed, the waist and legs are not painful, and spring fever can be prevented.
Why pick shepherd's purse on March 3?
The shepherd's purse picked in the early March of the lunar calendar has the best properties.
Shepherd's purse is found in the South all year round. If you cook and eat, you can pick it at any time. But if it is used as medicine, the shepherd's purse picked in the early March of the lunar calendar is the best.
Picking herbs is the spirit of heaven and earth, so no matter which kind of herbs, we should pay attention to picking time. If it is not collected at the right time, the efficacy will be greatly reduced. The shepherd's purse in early March, the first batch of young seedlings just matured in the spring, stored the energy of the whole winter, and the early spring weather is still relatively cold, the growth is slow, so the medicinal value is the highest. Later, what will be sent out will grow fast and its medicinal value will decline.
The shepherd's purse that eats, picks tender bud only. The shepherd's purse that enters medicine, must use whole plant, must pick together with root, the medicine of root is stronger. The whole plant can be used for a whole year if it is collected and dried at home. Put some on the kitchen stove and avoid ants. When you need treatment, take a few plants and boil them in boiling water for seven or eight minutes, then you can drink soup. When there is no condition to cook, it is OK to make tea with dry products.
Take shepherd's purse on March 3 to prevent the disease in spring. The biggest effect is that it has a strong effect on dispelling the cold of aging, and the medicine is very peaceful. To eat shepherd's purse on March 3 is to dispel the cold accumulated in winter.
"Huangdi's Internal Classic" says well: 'if you hurt yourself in winter, you will get sick in spring. "It means that in winter, if it is frozen, if it is not dissolved in time, the cold will go deep into the body and lurk down. In the spring, the rising of Yang Qi, these latent cold air attack, cold extremely heat, will cause influenza fever. This is also the reason why epidemics are particularly prone to occur in spring.
Therefore, in order to prevent the cold and heat accumulation in winter, we should not use the medicine of Daxin and Dahe in spring, but use shepherd's purse to prevent the 'warm disease' in spring.
Shepherd's purse is flat. Its special feature is that it can not only remove the cold of aging, but also remove the blood heat, so that the cold of Fu can not be turned into internal fire, and maintain the cold and heat balance of human body.