Today is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the year of the year. This day heralds the end of the old year and also kicks off the Spring Festival.
In the era of farming, the winter has been idle, and the New Year is starting from a young age, sacrificing the stove to worship the ancestors, cleaning the house, purchasing New Year's goods, and posting the Spring Festival couplets ...... lanterns
Nowadays, the taste of the New Year has faded a lot, not only because of the ban on burning and discharging, but also because of the indifference of history and culture, and the deeper reason is that we have to go to work.
If the New Year is also a legal holiday, we must be able to innovate a hundred times the way we celebrate it. But now I don't even know how I used to live.
The king of the stove in the new year should be sweet todayNowadays, there are very few traditional stoves in the city, and many young friends have not experienced the sacrificial stove. Let's restore the scene of the old sacrificial stove, which is recorded in "Yanjing Chronicles" like this:
On the 23rd of the sacrificial stove, the ancient yellow sheep was used, and it was heard that the inner court was still used, and the people did not use it. The folk sacrificial stove only uses southern sugar, Kanto sugar, sugar cakes and clear water grass beans. The sugar people worship the gods, and the clear water grass beans worship the gods and horses. After the sacrifice is completed, the statue of the god is removed and burned together with thousands of pieces and ingots. When the Chinese New Year's Eve receives the gods, the offerings are performed again. ”
In ancient times, the yellow sheep used in the sacrificial stove was used as a sacrifice, and it is said that the palace sacrifice was still used, but the folk no longer saw it, and the sacrificial stove only used all kinds of sugar, clear water grass beans.
Wang Hongli, "100 Pictures of Ancient Customs".
After the sacrifice is completed, the old statue of Vesta should be removed, and a grass horse should be tied for the Vesta God with straw, so that he would "say good things in heaven and return to the house to be auspicious", and the sugar melon would be melted and glued to his mouth with fire so that his "mouth would be sweet" and only say good things, and then burn it together with the grass horse, paper ingots, etc., and wait until Chinese New Year's Eve to receive the Vega God and then re-worship, this is the sacrifice stove.
Compared with the sacrificial stove, the king of the jumping stove is even less common, and the elderly may have seen it in the countryside when they were young. The "Hundred Pictures of Ancient Customs" describes such a scene:
The New Year urges people to be busy, beggars dress up as stove kings, knock bamboo songs and dance in front of the door, and reward money and good words to the Jade Emperor. ”
On this day, there will always be a team of white-faced sideburns performers, performing along the courtyard, market, and shop. The old man who walked in front made a loud noise of the bamboo plank, and sang loudly:
Respectfully send the stove to the king for nine days. Strong horses, forage, tailwind. The sugar melon offered is sweet and sweet, please say good words to the Jade Emperor.
At the end of the singing, the old people of every household would come out of the house and carry a bag of homemade sugar for the night before to divide among the people; All the children in the village will follow behind in groups, taking the opportunity to ask for some sweet and crispy sugar melons to eat.
Wang Hongli, "100 Pictures of Ancient Customs".
Here, in particular, maltose should be discussed. We don't use it much in our daily lives, but its long history can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty, and there are relevant records in the Book of Songs.
Maltose is slightly warm, sweet in taste, and returns to the spleen, lungs, and stomach meridians. It is not only delicious, but also the first sugar to be used in medicine, which has the effects of strengthening the stomach and eliminating food, tonifying the spleen and invigorating qi, moistening the lungs and relieving cough, relieving dryness, and relieving pain.
Nowadays, many people control sugar, there is nothing wrong with sugar control, don't overeat sugar, but don't be too afraid of it. Sweet acid turns yin, sweet and spicy turns yang, if you can learn to use sugar, you can quickly solve some physical problems.
Here are a few sugary tips for you:
Long-term cough does not heal: 500g of radish, mashed, squeezed out the juice, put in a bowl, add 15 to 30g of rock sugar, steam, and drink slowly while hot. This recipe originates from the "Huiyan of Materia Medica". Radish clears away heat and dissolves phlegm, rock sugar moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It is used for phlegm, fever, cough, dry throat and thirst.
Wind chill cold, body cold and abdominal pain: brown sugar ginger slices.
In winter, the wind is cold, and it is easy to catch a cold if you are not careful, and there is a headache and dizziness, and you are afraid of cold.
Brown sugar is warm, sweet, into the spleen, has the effect of invigorating qi and blood, strengthening the spleen and warming the stomach, warming and relieving pain, invigorating blood and removing blood stasis, the Qing Dynasty physician Huang Gongxiu wrote the "Materia Medica" record: "Red sugar, after fire refining, the sex turns warm, the color becomes red, so it can be blood and stasis ......."”
The best partner of brown sugar is ginger. The taste of brown sugar is sweet, and it is also a natural sweetness that the spleen and stomach like, such as wet and cold, and afraid of cold, or a friend of Gong Han, this warm brown sugar ginger, combined with inside and outside, disperses the old cold in the body.
Method:Wash the ginger and cut it into thin strips. Pour brown sugar and a little water into a clean frying pan without oil to dissolve the brown sugar. Pour in the ginger shreds, stir-fry over medium heat until the syrup bubbles, turn to low heat and stir-fry. Turn off the heat when you see some frosting on the sides of the pot and the ginger shreds sticking together. Continue to fry non-stop, the ginger shreds slowly dry, and when they are covered with icing, they can be sealed in small bags and carried around, which is convenient and healthy.
This sweet ginger slice is especially suitable for friends who don't like to eat ginger but have heavy dampness and cold in the body, and are prone to stomach pain, or walk outside and are blown by the cold wind.
If you are too lazy to make it yourself, or want to make it easy to carry, you can also try this small package of brown sugar ginger slices, the thin ginger slices are covered with brown sugar, and when you take a bite, the sweetness is silky, and when the sugar slowly melts, the spicy taste of ginger will be revealed.
This ginger slice is made of Tongling white ginger, very tender, less fiber, no feeling of slag in the mouth, no teeth, fried sugar and ginger are decades of craftsmanship of the master, the heat is accurate, the brown sugar is used in Yunnan Miao nationality, the taste is authentic, the right is dispelled, and the foundation is solidified.
And each piece is vacuum-packed, clean and hygienic, a small package, usually put it in the pocket is also convenient, ready to eat out of the bag, and there will be no worry about waste caused by moisture after eating. The sweet ginger is spicy, and when I eat it, I sweat slightly, and I feel that my stomach is warm in an instant.
Chewing and eating, eating with mouth, people like me who are not very good at eating ginger can accept its taste, a little spicy but not choking at all, and I don't want to chew and eat.
We only need to put three or four slices of brown sugar ginger into a cup, pour boiling water, put a few wolfberries, and the brown sugar ginger tea becomes hot in seconds, which is very suitable for girls to drink in those days.
Please eat some sweetness for yourself today, even if you don't sacrifice to the king of the stove, you can also spend a festival with the king of the stove! Make your life a little sweeter!
Chaotic days are rare, and there are no taboosIt is precisely because of the new year that the Lord of the Stove wants to go to heaven to make a year-end summary, and the little long vacation of all kinds of fierce gods and evils has also begun. From the 25th day of the month to Chinese New Year's Eve, it is called the Troubled New Year's Day, which is a rare good day. "Ji Sheng in the Years of Dijing" said:
Because the god vesta has gone to heaven, the Chinese New Year's Eve is spinning, and all the murders are not necessary, and it is said that there is no taboo to get married within these five days. ”
It is not only an "auspicious day for marriage", but also "no taboos", so in the old days, the family was poor and had no money to give the bride price, and they grabbed more to marry in these days, which was called "chasing the chaotic year".
Those who don't need to get married can also be less scruples. You can do something that you usually want to do but don't dare to do, such as children mischievous, adults confess, creditors begging for money, single blind dates, ......The New Year is also a good auspicious day, and when the New Year is approaching, the mood is good, and the giggling haha will pass.
If you are a person who usually restricts yourself a lot, and is prone to self-blame, nervousness, anxiety, and irritability, you can get close to cinnabar more.
It is the first of the top grade of "Shennong's Materia Medica", "the best grade of the gods", the internal energy of the main body of the five Tibetan diseases, nourishing the spirit, calming the soul, benefiting the qi and brightening the eyes, and the external can kill the essence and ghost.
Friends who are afraid and worried, and who are physically and mentally weak are suitable to wear it, nourish the mind and calm the heart, and help the right and drive away evil spirits.
* Delicate children, easy to sweat big friends, can be hung on the bag or put in the pocket to stabilize the body and mind, adjust the aura, sleep poorly, dream friends put it next to the pillow to try. It is very good to avoid evil and pray for blessings in the New Year, and it is prosperous and has a good fortune.