Light snow, one of the 24 solar terms, is ranked in the 20th solar term, so it is also known as the 'light snow solar term', which generally refers to the snow that falls little. So, what's the best thing to eat in 2018? Now let's take a look at the 2018 snow solar terms health preservation method!
2018 Snow Festival eating customs:
Cured meat
There is a folk custom of 'salting in the winter and keeping it for the winter'. After light snow, the temperature drops sharply and the weather becomes dry. It's a good time to process bacon.
After the blizzard Festival, some farmers began to make sausages and bacon. They stored the surplus meat in the traditional way and enjoyed the delicious food at the Spring Festival.
Eat glutinous rice cake
In some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating Ciba in October of the lunar calendar. Ciba is a kind of food made by steaming and mashing glutinous rice, which is popular in some areas of South China.
In ancient times, Ciba was a traditional festival sacrifice in southern China, which was first used by farmers to sacrifice cattle gods. There is a saying that "in the October Dynasty, Ciba, Lulu and Shao" refers to the event of sacrifice.
Sun dried fish
When it snows, fishermen in South Central Taiwan begin to dry and store dry food. The squid group will come to the Taiwan Strait before and after the light snow, and there are swordfish, sand fish, etc.
Taiwan proverb: October beans, fat to the head, refers to the cloth bag area in Jiayi County, to the lunar October can be caught 'bean fish'.
Eat soup
Before and after the light snow, Tujia people began their annual folk activities of "killing pigs and greeting the new year", adding a warm atmosphere to the cold winter. Eating 'Goutang' is the custom of Tujia people. In the folk activities of 'killing New Year's pigs and greeting the new year', the delicacies made of the best fresh pork with heat are called 'Goutang'.
On the occasion of the light snow of the lunar calendar this year, Tujia farmers in Shipai town, Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture use fresh pork just killed to cook Tujia traditional food "Goutang" at home, ready to entertain relatives and friends.
What are the health customs of the snow festival in 2018?
1、 Living.
In winter, go to bed early and get up late. Don't stay up late. Keep warm and warm in daily life to prevent cold. Pay attention to opening windows and ventilation during the day. Go to bed at 10 o'clock every night. You'd better bubble your feet with hot water and massage the Yongquan acupoints on your feet.
2、 Diet.
Light snow solar term, appropriate to eat warm food and kidney food. Warm foods include walnuts, grapes, chestnuts, chickens, shrimps, ginger, pepper, etc.; kidney benefiting foods include cashew nuts, yams, Euryale nuts, porridge, white fruits, walnuts, etc. In addition, to eat more black food such as black fungus, black sesame, black beans and so on.
That is to say, to be far away from "three whites": sugar, salt and lard; to be near to "three blacks": the first one is agaric, the second one is Porphyra, and the other one is Porphyra. The three blacks are better for people. This is the "three whites" and "three blacks" recommended by health experts.
3、 Sports.
In the light snow solar term, the weather is often cold and gloomy, and the green vegetation and red flowers are reduced. At this time, people's mood will also be affected by it, which is particularly easy to cause depression. Therefore, we should adjust our mentality, keep optimistic, and often participate in some outdoor activities to enhance our health.
4、 Practice.
In the light snow season, the manifestations of human diseases in meridians and collaterals are mostly the lesions of liver meridian of foot Jueyin. The channels of the liver originate from the big toe of the foot and go up along the front edge of the medial malleolus on the back of the foot. After the spleen channel of the Taiyin of the foot exits at the intersection of eight inches on the medial malleolus, it goes over the knee, around the Yin organ, to the abdomen, the human abdomen, the stomach, the liver, the collaterals, the upper diaphragm, the ribs of the flank, along the throat, and enters the orifices of the nose. The eyes are connected upward, and the forehead meets the governor. Its branches are separated from the eye system, descending into the cheek and surrounding the lips; other branches are separated from the liver, passing through the diaphragm, injecting into the lung, and passing through the lung meridian of the hand Taiyin.