In some rural areas in the south, there is the custom of “February 2, the dragon raises its head, hoping for rain, fried gold beans. According to legend, there was a year of drought in ancient times, the people were not living, the Dragon King took pity on all the people and made a heavy rain on his own, saving the people, the Jade Emperor was furious, the Dragon King was pressed under the mountain, saying that the day when the golden beans bloom, so the people looked for the golden beans bloom, hoping that the Dragon King rain, the formation of the February 2 fried golden beans, fried soybean custom. In northern China and the Central Plains, soybeans are generally referred to as soybeans, and also have a variety of names such as beans, beans, green soybeans, beans. Soybeans are sweet, flat, and enter the spleen, stomach and large intestine. According to the ancestral medicine dietary analysis, soybeans have beneficial effects on the spleen, lowering gas, relaxing the middle, moistening the bowels, and detoxifying water. As a dietary treatment, it can be used for spleen deficiency and emaciation, shortness of breath and weakness, heat accumulation in the stomach and intestines, edema and fullness, unfavorable urination, dry stools, pregnancy poisoning and other TCM symptoms. The ancient Chinese medical text “Daily Use of the Materia Medica” says that soybeans can “broaden the middle and lower the qi, benefit the large intestine, eliminate edema, and cure fetal toxicity”. The famous ancient Chinese pharmacologist Li Shizhen believed that soybeans could “cure kidney disease, benefit the underwater qi, control all wind-heat, activate the blood and detoxify all poisons”. Soybeans are a specialty of China and come in yellow, green, brown and black varieties. Soybeans are used as raw materials in a variety of industries, from food to pharmaceuticals, and there are many ways to eat soybeans. In addition to frying them, they can also be cooked, made into bean sprouts, made into tofu, tempeh, bean curd, vegetarian chicken, and soybean paste. …… has been handed down to this day, and has accumulated a wealth of ways to eat soybeans in the folklore. Soybeans are rich in protein and have the reputation of being a “plant meat”. The nutritional content of soybeans is very rich, some people analyze, a pound of soybeans contains protein similar to two pounds of lean pork, but also equivalent to 3 pounds of eggs or 12 pounds of milk. From a certain point of view, the protein contained in soybeans is not only higher than fish and meat, and easy to absorb. Experiments have shown that soy protein can inhibit chemical carcinogens caused by breast cancer in rats. Tofu made from soybeans has a protein absorption rate of more than 90%, followed by boiled soybeans, while the protein utilization rate of fried soybeans is only half. Soybean milk is equivalent to liquid tofu, for people who drink milk diarrhea can drink soybean milk to supplement protein, but also has the effect of stomach health. In addition, soybeans contain 220 micrograms of carotenoids, more than 20 milligrams of vitamins, 191 milligrams of calcium, 3.34 milligrams of zinc, 6.16 micrograms of selenium and potassium per 100 grams. Because soybeans contain very little water, the proportion of available nutrients is very high, so soybeans have “king of beans”, “green milk”, “the flower of nutrition” and many other names, no wonder the old society No wonder the old society circulated “rich to eat meat, no money to eat beans” proverb, now the economic conditions are better, eat more meat and get rich disease, so people began to pay attention to the benefits of eating beans again. Soy contains 18% to 20% of high-quality fat, more than animal fat, oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid and other unsaturated fatty acids, these unsaturated fatty acids have a cholesterol-lowering effect, which is very beneficial to obese people, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease control. U.S. and Japanese scientists have done a survey on the Japanese Okinawa Island centenarians diet and living, found that one of the reasons for their longevity is to eat the amount of soy beans super crowd, the number of soy beans eaten daily up to 60 ~ 120 grams. It is said that the United States, Japan and other developed countries have advocated the “tofu project”, advocating more soy protein, less meat products to reduce obesity. Soy contains soluble dietary fiber, which is beneficial for promoting intestinal peristalsis, preventing colon cancer, and preventing habitual constipation, and relieving the slow bowel movement and weakness of the bowels of the elderly. One of the components of soy isoflavones, goldfinch isoflavin, can inhibit the occurrence of a variety of tumors, especially hormone-related tumors, such as breast cancer, prostate cancer, etc. It has also been noted that soy isoflavones contain phenolic hydroxyl groups that reduce oxygen free radicals and their damage to biological macromolecules, which is beneficial in the prevention of malignant tumors. Soy saponins are soy products, especially soy milk is rich in important ingredients, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, can treat pharyngitis, conjunctivitis, enteritis, dysentery, etc., and the prevention of atherosclerosis, lowering the function of blood lipids, experimental studies have also found that soy saponins on certain chemotherapy drugs caused by elevated serum transaminases have a counteracting effect, suggesting that soy may have a protective effect on certain drug toxicity caused by liver damage. Soy is rich in a variety of minerals, calcium and iron is not only rich, and easily absorbed, due to calcium deficiency caused by osteoporosis, muscle spasms and other diseases have a preventive effect, which is similar to the Chinese medicine that soy has treatment “wind paralysis tendon contracture, postpartum wind spasm”, therefore, the elderly to prevent bone and joint degeneration and children’s bone growth and development is also beneficial. Examples of soybean recipes are as follows Spleen and Qi Formula: Used for loss of appetite, lethargy and fatigue caused by loss of spleen health. Soybean 50 grams and peanut rice 50 grams, first soak half a day, wash, and rice 100 grams of porridge, half cooked with 20 grams of jujube, cooked. You can also add sugar or meat pine as appropriate, and often eat. Qi and intestinal formula: for habitual constipation or senile constipation caused by Qi deficiency or Yin deficiency. Soybean 50 grams, black sesame 50 grams, first soak half a day, wash with walnuts 50 grams, millet 100 grams of porridge, often eat. Skin care and moisturizing formula: for dry skin, skin does not moisten, yellow lips and other diseases, ancient books contain soy beans have “long skin, benefit color” function, pork skin 500 grams, scraping hair to remove fat, boiling water for about 10 minutes, let cool and cut inch section, simmered into a slightly sticky fire, soybean 100 grams first soak half a day, cooked with meat skin, discretionary sugar salt and other seasonings The first 100 grams of soybeans soaked for half a day, cooked with meat skin, add sugar and salt and other seasonings as appropriate. Eating soybeans should be moderate, more food will be bloated and indigestion. Soybean milk should not be drunk raw or in excess, nor should eggs be washed with soybean milk or soybean milk with milk. It should be fully boiled before drinking, because soybeans contain saponin, antitrypsin, purine substances, erythrocyte agglutinin, etc., which can cause discomfort, and these components can be destroyed only after fully boiled. Tofu also contains a lot of purines, so people with gout, high blood uric acid, and hyperthyroidism should not use more.