It is generally believed that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings is to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. In fact, according to expert research, rice dumplings are only ordinary folk food. The first meal to eat rice dumplings was not fixed at the Dragon Boat Festival. The formation only reflects the people's heart desire.
Why is the dumplings called dumplings?
Scorpion is a festive food for the Dragon Boat Festival. It has been a long time ago. In the book “Shuo Wen Jie Zi†written by Xu Shen in the Han dynasty, there was a record of “Zi Ziâ€, which is a kind of food wrapped in rice with a leaf.
However, in ancient times, the scorpion was called a horned owl.
After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the dumplings were wrapped in glutinous rice. At this time, they were not called horned owls, but they were called crickets.
Because of different regions, there are great differences in materials and even in the leaves. Even the shape of the “wrap†is very different. For example, people used to make horns to worship the heavens in the early days. Therefore, the oysters in the Han and Jin dynasties were often made into horns. One of the ancestral supplies. In addition, there are generally various shapes such as an equilateral triangle, a regular tetragon, a sharp triangle, a square, and an elongate shape.
The names of the scorpions have also undergone many changes. In the Week of the Western Jin Dynasty, Fengjiji said that the Dragon Boat Festival uses eucalyptus leaves wrapped in glutinous rice chestnut dates, called tube soup, also known as horned quail.
In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica," it was clearly stated that the use of glutinous rice leaves wrapped in glutinous rice and boiled into sharp-angled or palm leaf-shaped foods, it is called "cornerfish" or "clam."
Reasons for eating dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival
On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats dumplings to commemorate Qu Yuan. Generally, they wrap the dumplings the day before, and cook them at night to eat in the morning. The dumplings are mainly used for the tender reed leaves that are abundant in the river ponds. They are also used for bamboo leaves and are collectively referred to as loquat leaves. The traditional form of rice dumplings is a triangle. It is generally named according to the inner pot, rice dumplings are called rice bran, rice bean mixed with red bean is called cardamom, and red dates are called dates. The date is the same as “early morningâ€, so the dates are eaten. At the most, children who are intending to study can eat early or middle. In the past, people who read books took part in the imperial examinations in the past and had to eat dates in the morning. Until the morning of the middle school and college entrance examination days, parents also had to make dates for candidates to eat.
How to eat wolfberry before it is healthy
1, eating wolfberry fruit can not be accompanied by cold drinks, because it is easy to make glutinous rice solidified, but not easy to digest. Eating dumplings can be served with a bowl of light vegetable soup, such as melon, bamboo shoots, and loofah soup, which can help digestion. You can also drink hot black tea to eat dumplings, which can play a good role in digestion and digestion.
2. The dumplings should not be used as the only food in a meal and must be served with some dishes. Because of fast digestion, blood sugar rises rapidly and falls faster. If you eat more vegetables to match, you will not have such a strong hunger response after eating wolfberry.
3, although the hot glutinous rice itself is easy to digest, but mixed with greasy ingredients, such as fat, egg yolk, etc., people with poor digestion may feel uncomfortable, and others are easy to get angry. Therefore, people with indigestion eat wolfberry should choose fresh northern jujube dumplings, not with too greasy vegetables. For those who are easy to get angry, it is not advisable to use beef, mutton, fried foods and spicy foods that promote body heat. Vegetables, soy products and non-greasy fish are the most suitable.
4, due to different physical conditions, people with too much stomach acid to eat sweet dumplings may be uncomfortable, there is a burning heart, eating salty meat, slightly better, a small number of dumplings with more vegetables will be better.
5, dumplings with fruit. While eating dumplings, it can be used with vegetables, fruits and other foods that can help the intestines and stomach motility, and to avoid indigestion caused by eating dumplings. But can not eat a lot of cold fruit, such as watermelon, otherwise it is easy to cause diarrhea or abdominal pain.
6, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer patients, such people is best not to eat dumplings. The main ingredient of wolfberry fruit is glutinous rice, not digestible, will stay in the stomach for a long time, stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, easily lead to the recurrence of patients with chronic gastritis, esophagitis.
7, the elderly and children. The glutinous rice contains many glutinous rice, sticky, old people and children's gastrointestinal function is relatively weak, eating wolfberry fruit can easily cause indigestion and hyperacidity, abdominal distension, etc., if you must eat to control the quantity.
8, people suffering from high blood pressure, high cholesterol, coronary heart disease are not suitable for eating. With the improvement of living standards, many types of oysters are now available, and meat, red dates, and even seafood are often added to medlar so that an ordinary glutinous rice dumpling becomes a high-fat, high-protein food and is eaten as such. There is a lot of bad influence.
9, diabetics. Zongzi has a high sugar content. If red dates and red bean paste are added to the dumplings, the sugar content is even higher. Eating this high sugar content dumplings can easily cause the patient's blood sugar and urine sugar to rise rapidly and aggravate the illness.
10, salted eggs rich in fat, protein and various Amino Acids required by the body, also contains calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and essential trace elements and vitamins, but pregnant women should not eat, because each salted egg Containing more than 10 grams of salt, eat more easily lead to edema in pregnant women, and the body's daily salt demand is about 5 to 8 grams.
11, the dumplings should be eaten hot, add the fat, meat, egg yolk of the dumplings are not even cold to eat, especially for those who have poor digestion and attention.
12, eat dumplings with white radish. White radish has a refreshing, qi and moisturizing effect. When eaten with wolfberry fruit, it can promote digestion. Eat dumplings and sugar. Sugar has a dilute digestive effect on mucus, can protect the gastric mucosa, protect the spleen and stomach, Chinese medicine believes that sugar has a tonic and a middling effect, so it is perfectly possible to eat sugar boiled dumplings.
13, in the preservation, dumplings can be frozen in the freezer after long-term preservation, when eating to re-steam, or use microwave oven thawing. When it is stored, it is best to divide it into small parcels that have been eaten, packed tightly with plastic bags, and separated from other meats and other raw foods to avoid cross-contamination.
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