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The origin of eating glutinous rice during the cold season

The winter festival in 2019 will come one day later. On this day, people in Guangdong have the custom of eating glutinous rice. They will cook glutinous rice, luobuding and sausage together to make glutinous rice. So what's the effect of eating glutinous rice in the cold season? Why does it need to eat glutinous rice?

It's a custom to eat glutinous rice in the cold. The cold weather is the last of the 24 seasons and the coldest day in the whole winter, so it is called "the cold weather". On this day, Cantonese not only wear the most, but also eat some warm food to keep warm, such as glutinous rice. Glutinous rice warms the stomach, nourishes the stomach and replenishes the Qi and blood. It's most suitable for eating in cold winter. You can feel warm all over you.

In the old days, the poor people's houses were leaking through the walls, the seats were thin, and the cold proof conditions were too simple. They had to face the suffering of bitter cold every day. According to traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice is sweet in taste and warm in nature, which can nourish the healthy qi of human body. After eating it, it will get hot all over the body, which plays a role in keeping warm and nourishing. It is most suitable for eating in winter. So the common people tried, and sure enough, they thought that it was warm in the stomach, like a small heater, and they were no longer afraid of the cold invasion, so the custom of eating glutinous rice on a cold day began to spread.

Glutinous rice is one of the traditional staple foods in China. It plays an important role in the life of the people of southern China. It is a favorite food for men, women, old and young. The staple foods for various festivals are mostly made of glutinous rice.

Glutinous rice is also one of Wenzhou's staple foods, especially as breakfast, but Wenzhou People's love of glutinous rice makes glutinous rice business in many places all day long. It's popular in Shanghai to have fried dough sticks for breakfast. Rice is a traditional breakfast in Shanghai.

Nutritious effect of eating glutinous rice in the cold

Glutinous rice is sweet and warm in nature, which can enter the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. It has the functions of Tonifying the middle part of the body and benefiting the Qi, strengthening the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and stopping sweating.

1. Excellent tonic

It has the functions of tonifying deficiency, replenishing blood, strengthening the spleen, warming the stomach and stopping perspiration.

2. Relieving deficiency cold of spleen and stomach

It is suitable for nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea and sweating deficiency, shortness of breath and weakness caused by deficiency of Qi caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach, fullness of pregnant abdomen, etc.

3. Relieve the symptoms of frequent urination

Glutinous rice has astringent effect and has good therapeutic effect on frequency of urination and self perspiration.

Nutritional value of glutinous rice: glutinous rice is a kind of grain with high nutritional value. Modern scientific research shows that glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B and starch, which are warm tonic and strong products.

1. High calcium content, has a good effect of bone and teeth.

2. Rich in B vitamins, it can warm the spleen and stomach and nourish the middle Qi. It can alleviate the deficiency of spleen and stomach, poor appetite, abdominal distention and diarrhea.

Who is not suitable for glutinous rice?

1. People with excessive damp heat, phlegm and fire

People who have fever, cough, phlegm, jaundice and abdominal distention should not eat; when they have fever, the gastrointestinal tract of the patients is in a relatively inhibited state, so they should eat some food that is easy to digest, such as liquid food, or the disease will be aggravated.

2. Those with weak digestion after the disease

Glutinous rice is sticky. If it is used as cake, it is more difficult to digest. People with weak digestion should avoid eating glutinous rice cake. At this time, although the patient's appetite has improved, the digestion function is still weak. Excessive consumption of glutinous rice is not conducive to recovery.

3. Diabetic patients

Because of the abnormal metabolism of sugar in diabetics, they are forbidden to eat polysaccharide food, and rice is hydrolyzed into glucose in the body, especially glutinous rice food, which has higher sugar content, so they should be forbidden to eat.

4. Gastrointestinal patients

Glutinous rice is warm and stagnant. It contains many and long plant fibers. Eating too much will aggravate the burden of gastrointestinal tract. If people with stomach and duodenal ulcer are greedy for glutinous rice, it is likely to cause perforation and bleeding of ulcer, which will aggravate the disease.

5. The elderly and children

Glutinous rice is sticky. If the elderly and children eat too much, it is easy to cause indigestion, and the resulting symptoms such as excessive stomach acid, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc.