How to keep fit on Loong Boat Festival? Loong Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. At this time, many places not only eat Zongzi but also race Loong Boat. There are many traditional customs. So how to keep fit on Loong Boat Festival? Let's talk about how to keep healthy during the Loong Boat Festival!
Loong Boat Festival Regimen
Hanging sachet
In many parts of China, the custom of hanging sachets on Loong Boat Festival is also a way to prevent infectious diseases. The sachet worn on the Loong Boat Festival is wrapped with five colored silk threads or sewed with rags. It contains spices (made of the Chinese herbal medicine Angelica dahurica, Chuanxiong, Scutellaria baicalensis, Paicao, Chennai, Pine and Gaoxing). It is worn on the chest and smells delicious. It can ward off evil spirits, awaken the mind, and increase fortune. Fragrant sachets can be worn on the chest, waist, or belly button, and can also be hung at the door, indoors, or in the car.
Race Loong Boat and Wash the Water
Longqiu water is also the water that Loong Boat races across. People think it is good water and flowing water, so there is often the custom of drinking and washing Longqiu water bath. The folk also have the saying of "washing Longqiu water on May Day".
Drive away the five poisons
The Qing Jia Lu, the source of the history of wine medicine, records that "studying the end of realgar, cutting the roots of cattails, and drinking with wine, is called realgar wine. There is a saying among Chinese people that" early Dragon Boat Festival and late Mid Autumn Festival ". It is believed that Chen belongs to the dragon. It is the time when dragons are walking in the rain. A realgar wine banquet is held in the morning of the Loong Boat Festival, which is a good year for the people to expect good weather and bumper crops." The method of preparing realgar wine is very simple. For adults to drink, take a small amount of realgar powder treated with water flying. According to the current pharmacopoeia, 0.05g~0.1g is taken into a small bowl or cup, then add 15ml~20ml of Baijiu, stir it with chopsticks, and then pour the liquor with reddish yellow color on the upper layer into quantitative Baijiu. The sediment at the bottom of the bowl or cup is discarded, and the drinking volume is about 15ml.
Boiling garlic
Garlic is a traditional Chinese medicine with a sweet and pungent taste that can kill viruses and sterilize. When cooked, it can clear toxins from the intestines and clear blood vessels. On the morning of the Duanyang Festival, the custom in most parts of the country is to cook new garlic to clear blood vessels and disinfect.
Go eat chicken, duck, goose eggs
Many places steam "noodle fans" on Loong Boat Festival. The noodle fan is made by steaming hair dough and is fan-shaped with 5 layers. Sprinkle finely ground ripe pepper powder on each layer, shape the surface into various patterns, and dye them with colors, which look very beautiful. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of controlling, selling and giving fans during the Dragon Boat Festival.
3、 Yellow eel
Every Loong Boat Festival in Jianghan Plain of China, rice eels are also eaten. Yellow eels are also known as eels, long fish, etc. During the Dragon Boat Festival, eels are round, plump, tender, delicious, and nutritious. They not only have a good taste, but also have nourishing functions. Therefore, there is a saying in the folk that 'eels compete with ginseng during the Dragon Boat Festival'.
How to keep fit on Loong Boat Festival
4、 Pancake
Every family has the custom of eating pancakes on Loong Boat Festival. Pancake is made by mixing refined white flour into a paste, baking it in a large and flat iron frying pan into translucent cakes that resemble a round moon and are as thin as silk. Then, filled with mung bean sprouts, chives, shredded meat, shredded eggs, mushrooms, etc., rolled into a cylindrical shape and bitten off in one bite to taste a variety of flavors.
5、 Tea egg
On Loong Boat Festival, we also need boiled tea eggs and salted eggs. Eggs include eggs, duck eggs, and goose eggs. The eggshells are painted red and wrapped in colorful mesh bags, hanging around the child's neck, symbolizing blessings for the child's good fortune and safety.
6、 Rice cake
Eating rice cake Loong Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people. The most representative food of the day is the fragrant rice cake. Rice cake is a kind of rice cake made by beating wormwood and glutinous rice with a long handled wooden hammer in a big wooden trough made of single wood. This kind of food has ethnic characteristics and can add to the festive atmosphere.