“Midsummer Duanwu. Duan is also the beginning.” –The “Record of Customs and Lands”. Dragon Boat Festival, for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, one of the twenty-four festivals. Every time this festival, are inseparable from the dragon boat race, eat zongzi, hanging incense pouches and other folk customs. Dragon Boat Festival, the festival of Chinese medicine ancient people believe that the lunar calendar in May is a malicious season, snakes, insects, rats and ants proliferate, disease and plague is also easy to spread. May 5 is because of the “Yang” and is considered poisonous months in the poisonous day, there are claims that the name “Dragon Boat” by the “dodge noon” evolved, there is to avoid the poisonous summer meaning. Because the Dragon Boat Festival is such an easy to get sick time, giving rise to the use of traditional Chinese medicine, the Dragon Boat Festival called the “festival of Chinese medicine” is not too much. Read through the canonical books, will see the Dragon Boat Festival and bathing orchid festival, calamus festival, daughter festival and other aliases, which are related to the Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese medicine origin. Han dynasty “Da Dai Li” cloud: “noon to orchid soup bath”, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival in mid-summer, skin diseases, the ancients to orchid soup bath to dirt for the common, so called “bathing orchid festival”. The ancients believed that “heavy noon” is a taboo day, when the five poisons are out, so the Dragon Boat custom more to drive away evil and avoid poison, such as hanging calamus on the door, mugwort leaves, etc., so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as “calamus festival. In addition, the Ming Dynasty’s Shen Bing in the “Wan Department of miscellaneous records” said, “May daughter festival, the Department of the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing moxa leaves, five poisonous spiritual talisman. Wan custom from the first to the first five days of May, decorated with small girls, all the state of beauty. Married women are also each to Ning. Because call for the daughter festival.” Festival health way 1, food therapy to maintain health during the Dragon Boat Festival high temperature, high humidity. In such climatic conditions, the human body is more hyperactive in various vital activities, energy and nutrients consumed more quickly, the loss of body fluids, the body’s metabolic imbalance, often prone to body fever, thirst, heartburn, low appetite and other symptoms. Therefore, we should pay special attention to replenish water, consume more light food and fruits and vegetables, and pay attention to sun protection when we go out. During this period, the hot and humid climate is prone to breeding snakes, insects, rats and ants as well as various germs, which further aggravate the spread of diseases. Therefore, folk customs popular in front of the door insert moxa, drink Xiong Huang wine, Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil and health. 2, living and health “Huangdi Nei Jing – Su Wen – four qi tune Shen Da Lun” said, summer health way for “summer in March, this is called the summer show, the sky and earth, all things are flamboyant, sleep at night and get up early.” Summer March refers to the three months of the lunar calendar, April, May and June, also known as Mengxia, midsummer, the summer season, respectively. Dragon Boat Festival is in mid-summer. Living, to sleep late and get up early, properly exposed to sunlight, in order to comply with the fullness of Yang, conducive to the operation of blood, invigorate the spirit. More outdoor activities, a nap at noon can help the body to recover from fatigue, rationalize the mood and avoid anger. 3, sports for health From ancient times to the present, Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to promote sports, the annual must do “dragon boat racing activities” is a vivid example. Chinese medicine will be essence, Qi, God called the “three treasures”, and human life is closely related. Exercise for health is to seize these three links, adjust the consciousness to nourish the spirit; to lead the gas with the intention, adjust the breathing to practice gas, to promote the blood flow to the whole body; to guide the shape of gas, through the movement of the body, tendons and joints, so that the circumference of the tendons and veins smoothly, nutrition of the whole body. In daily life, you can walk, play the eight duanjin or taijiquan, jogging, swimming and other ways to health care body and mind. Recommended meal 1, tomato potato ribs soup Materials: tomato 300 grams, 500 grams of potatoes, ribs 500 grams Practice: first wash and blanch the ribs and rinse with water, and cut potatoes together into a casserole, add water 3000ml, first cooked for 15 minutes with martial arts fire and then changed to civil fire, cooked for 40 minutes, add tomatoes, and then cooked for 20 minutes, seasoning can be served. Effect: stomach, thirst quenching 2, white crucian carp roll lotus egg soup Ingredients: white crucian carp 500 grams, 3 eggs, 3 slices of ginger, pepper appropriate amount of practice: white crucian carp slaughter clean, slow fry until light yellow, splash a little water, shovel up; eggs fried lotus egg shape, shovel up; frying pan burnt ginger, add 1250 ml of water (5 bowls of volume), the fire boil, roll the white crucian carp for a moment, under the lotus egg. After boiling, sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Effect: dispel dampness and appetite 3, red amaranth soup Ingredients: 1 catty of red amaranth, some lean minced meat, 1 cup of stock, 2 garlic. Effects: Clearing heat and strengthening the spleen, removing dampness and stopping dysentery, astringent and stopping bleeding, and facilitating diuresis. 4, celery mixed with tofu Ingredients: celery 150 grams, tofu 1, seasoning appropriate amount of practice: celery cut into small sections, tofu cut into small square dice, both blanched with boiling water, pulled out and cooled with cool boiling water, control the water for use. Stir the celery and tofu, add salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and mix well. Efficacy: calm the liver and clear heat, dampness and detoxification North and South zongzi Dragon Boat Festival PK, which do you love more? 1, Beijing: zongzi more red dates, bean paste as filling Beijing zongzi larger, oblique quadrangular or triangular. Currently, most of the market is supplied with glutinous rice dumplings. In rural areas, it is still customary to eat large yellow rice dumplings. They are sticky and fragrant, with a distinctive flavor. Beijing dumplings are mostly filled with red dates and bean paste, and a few are also filled with dried fruit. 2. Guangdong: salted egg yolk, mushrooms, peanuts and pork filling Guangdong dumplings are smaller in size and have a chic shape, with a square front and a sharp corner rising from the back, like a cone. Winter leaves are wrapped with glutinous rice, green beans, salted egg yolk, mushrooms, peanuts, pork and lotus seeds, which is the traditional steamed rice dumpling practice, and the rich ingredients fill the taste satisfaction. 3, Shandong: Shandong yellow rice dumplings generation is the largest, the oldest qualifications in many varieties of rice dumplings, generation is the largest, the oldest qualifications, when the first push Shandong yellow rice dumplings. The dumplings wrapped in yellow sticky rice are sticky and glutinous, with red dates, and the products have a unique flavor, which can be eaten with sugar to increase the sweetness according to diners’ habits. 4, Shaanxi Guanzhong: eat honey cold zongzi Eat honey cold zongzi is Shaanxi Xi’an, Guanzhong and southern Shaanxi around the Dragon Boat Festival day food custom. The ancient name “horned millet” is said to have been invented for the sacrifice of Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river, and is by far the most culturally rich traditional food in Chinese history. Honey cold rice dumplings began in the Tang Dynasty, is from the Tang Wei Ju Yuan banquet for the Emperor Zhongzong’s “burning tail banquet” on the evolution of “given scarlet containing fragrant rice dumplings”, the comment is “honey drizzle”, meaning to the rice dumplings Drizzled with honey. Drizzling honey on cold rice dumplings is an ideal summer food. It is cool, sweet, aromatic and refreshing to the lungs. The main ingredients are glutinous rice and honey. 5, Hubei: Qu Yuan hometown triangle zongzhi memorial Qu Zi love Hubei Zigui is the hometown of Qu Yuan, in order to express the nostalgia for Qu Yuan, the local people pour different emotions on the package zongzi, do the zongzi is also extraordinarily elaborate, in Zigui zongzi are all triangular. Zigui folklore expert Zheng Chengzhi said: “triangle zongzi, symbolizing the angular life of Qu Yuan. In the zongzi must put a red date, symbolizing a loyal heart of Qu Yuan, our descendants should also be as loyal to the motherland as Qu Yuan.” 6, Yunnan: Dai dumplings with spices In the minority areas of Yunnan, what are the different characteristics of the dumplings made? In fact, spices are the most special thing about Dai zongzi. Locals add spices such as lemongrass, sand hammer, star anise and herb nuts when wrapping zongzi. In addition, they will also bundle the wrapped zongzi in two groups together, signifying pairs. 7, zhejiang: square zong ancient skills Mo lost in zhejiang Suichang Shi Lian town Yaobu village, villagers in the Dragon Boat Festival will be wrapped a special square zong, from the appearance of a magic square, very fine. The square zong needs six Ruo leaves cut into the same size shape, and then the leaves are folded into six squares. In the process of wrapping to use three pins to fix the Ruo leaves, the needle will be withdrawn after wrapping. Square dumplings have a long history in Suichang Xixiang, and there are certain instructions for giving square dumplings in the area. The first year after the daughter married back to her mother’s family, to let her husband’s family wrapped square zongzi sent to her mother’s family. 8, Sichuan: zongzi have sweet and spicy Sichuan people are spicy, so zongzi also have sweet and spicy points, Sichuan spicy zongzi, because of the elaborate production, complex process, the taste of course unique, so become one of the famous snacks in Sichuan for thousands of years. The method is to soak glutinous rice and red beans for 5 to 6 hours, pour out the water, put in pepper, Sichuan salt, MSG and a little bacon, and wrap them in zongzi leaves to form a four-cornered zong of about 60 grams. Cooked and eaten, spicy and unique flavor. 9, Suzhou: fresh meat, date paste, bean paste, lard sandwich and other varieties Suzhou dumplings are long and thin quadrangle-shaped, with fresh meat, date paste, bean paste, lard sandwich and other varieties, with ingredients sophisticated, fine production and other characteristics. For example, lard sandwich dumplings, the choice of the best red beans, cooked and peeled sand, and then add times the sugar and the right amount of grease made of filling, wrapped with a piece of fat in the filling, cooked crystal sweet, oily and fragrant. 10, Hainan: from banana leaves wrapped into a square cone BBQ pork, bacon, braised chicken wings as filling Hainan dumplings are different from the northern dumplings, it is wrapped into a square cone from banana leaves, weighing about half a kilogram, glutinous rice with salted egg yolk, BBQ pork, bacon, braised chicken wings, etc., hot dumplings peeled, the first banana and glutinous rice fragrance, followed by meat, eggs of strong fragrance. The aroma is both thick and light, and the taste is both meat and vegetables, which makes the appetite of the eaters. In addition, all over Hainan Island Dragon Boat Festival will be wrapped zongzi, and especially to the three famous zongzi, namely Dingan zong, Luoji zong, Rui Xi zong most famous. 11, southern Fujian: roast meat zong, alkali zong famous at home and abroad Xiamen, Quanzhou roast meat zong, alkali zong are famous at home and abroad. The meat dumplings are made with care and skill, the glutinous rice must be of the best quality, the pork is selected from three layers of pieces, first brined to be fragrant and rotten, then added with mushrooms, shrimp, lotus seeds and brined meat soup, sugar, etc., dipped in a variety of condiments such as garlic paste, mustard, red hot sauce, radish acid, etc., sweet and tender, oily and not greasy. The word “hot” in Minnan means the same as “burn”, so the so-called “burned meat dumplings” are dumplings to be eaten while they are hot, and they are more flavorful when eaten hot.