Duanwu Festival, Duanwu Festival, the best miss, is to be well with each other
Today, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Duanwu Festival.
Duan, is the beginning, the beginning of the meaning;
Noon, in the twelve earthly branches of the fifth, May 5 is the fifth day of the month of Wu, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival. The fifth day of May is the fifth day of the month of noon, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival. The day of noon is also called the Dragon Boat Festival.
Since ancient times, traditional festivals have always been full of rituals, whether it is the mid-autumn festival to enjoy the moon or the Qingming festival.
Every day during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang calamus, mugwort and mugwort leaves at the door, drink Xiong Huang wine, eat zongzi, wear incense pouches and race dragon boats to express their good wishes of wanting to stay healthy and fit.
But nowadays, when it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, eating zongzi seems to be the only festive expression you can think of ……
However, in the opinion of Dr. Zhang Shuo, attending physician at the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, affiliated with Capital Medical University:
Putting on incense sacs, smoking mugwort, eating “five yellow “
The traditional customs that seem to be “useless” contain a profound philosophy of Chinese medicine and the mystery of health care.
These are the most important things for our children to understand and pass on from childhood ……
Eating zongzi, but also to maintain health?
People, who follow their memories, eat things.
When I was a child, I watched my mother wrap zongzi, a few small dates, a handful of glutinous rice, folded in the zongzi leaves, and it became a lovely four-cornered zongzi.
After many years of reminiscing, the hot rice dumplings, which only belonged to my mother’s smile, still seem to emit a fragrant aroma.
Although the taste of the dumplings is automatically divided into two teams, the “southern salty dumplings” and the “northern sweet dumplings”, it has never been consistent.
But the memory of the Dragon Boat Festival has become very unified because of the small zongzi, which is a different but the same hometown feeling for northerners and southerners.
As a traditional folk custom, the Dragon Boat Festival not only carries the sentiment of family and country, but also the strong feelings of family and friends reunion, and is known as one of the most profound traditional foods in China’s historical and cultural accumulation.
Zongzi, the traditional food of the Dragon Boat Festival, is mainly made of glutinous rice.
Glutinous rice, sweet and warm in nature, has the ability to transform dampness and harmonize the spleen and stomach.
The leaves used to wrap the zongzi are usually reed leaves, bamboo leaves or lotus leaves, which are known for their ability to clear dampness and heat, dispel summer heat, increase thirst, and facilitate urination.
Traditional zongzi are also packed with red dates and red beans, which are good for the spleen and stomach, while red beans are good for clearing heat and detoxifying water and removing dampness.
In general, zongzi has the function of clearing heat and removing annoyance, helping the spleen and appetite, which is especially suitable for consumption in the early summer.
For example, it is not easy to overindulge in zongzi because they are not easy to digest. The company’s main goal is to provide a comprehensive range of products and services that are suitable for use in the market.
If you can’t finish it, it’s recommended to keep the dumplings in the refrigerator. The food is very easy to spoil because of the hot summer weather.
The children are now eating dumplings that are often packed with meat, fruit and other ingredients, so it is important not to eat them overnight to avoid spoilage of the filling.
In addition, for parents with diabetes, it is important not to eat the dumplings.
What is the best way to avoid the filth?
The Chinese have been wearing incense since the Shang and Zhou dynasties.
Unlike the industrial incense that is popular in the West, traditional Chinese incense pouches are made from natural herbs and are full of natural scents.
The Qing Dynasty’s “Qingjia Lu” has this to say about the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival:
“The embroidered bag is very small, similar to the shape of a lotus bag, in which it holds Xiong Huang, called Xiong Huang lotus bag …… are tied between the sash to ward off evil spirits.
Duanwu Festival, in mid-summer, is the time of the year when the heat and humidity are at their peak.
As the old saying goes, “The Dragon Boat Festival is on, and the five poisons are out.”
At this time, wearing an incense bag on your body not only brings back the ritual of the traditional festival, but also helps to nourish and calm your mind, and also means to aromatize the turbidity, drive away the heat and dampness, avoid the obscenity and remove the plague, and protect your body from the evil of heat and dampness.
In this regard, Dr. Zhang suggested that parents should consider giving their children the opportunity to wear an incense bag made of mugwort, atractylodes, dahurica, and chuanxiong, which can be ground into powder and bagged in appropriate amounts to repel summer mosquito bites, refresh the mind, and aromatize and avoid obscenities.
If the powder is used to light the aromatherapy, it can also be used, but pay attention to fire prevention, indoor ventilation, and caution if there are people with allergies at home.
Race the dragon boat, a thousand-year legacy!
In addition to eating zongzi and wearing incense pouches, dragon boat racing is also one of the customs of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival and one of the most important festive folklore activities of the festival. (The emergency response level in Beijing is now at Level 2, so please be careful to minimize gathering.)
There are various stories about the origin of dragon boat racing, including sacrifices to Cao E and Qu Yuan, whose origins can be traced back to the Warring States period.
On May 23, 2011, dragon boat racing was approved by the State Council to be included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
From a doctor’s point of view, rowing is more beneficial for sedentary people.
Because the action of rowing with both oars at the same time gives a good exercise to both sides of the body.
The backward pull, forward push, and oar swing of rowing are also very effective in improving muscle mass in the upper body and in working together.
In short, the Dragon Boat Festival is the most folkloric fancy of all the festivals, which conceals many health secrets.
For thousands of years, the Dragon Boat Festival has been infused with a new sense of times and renewed vigor by the interplay of multiple cultures, continuing to comfort human emotions.
Just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival, we might as well seriously enjoy a zongzi, half a tribute to tradition and half a tribute to life.