Today is the heavy snow in the twenty-four solar terms. Today, let’s learn about the customs and health preservation of the heavy snow solar terms.
Farmhouse hand-made mochi is lively playing
In Yuhang, the heavy snow festival has always had the custom of hitting mochi and brewing "red yeast wine". In Taipingshan Village of Yuhang Cormorant, everyone took turns to beat the freshly cooked glutinous rice in a stone mortar with mallets.
Fighting mochi is hard work, and generally requires three or five families to cooperate with each other. After more than ten minutes, the basically formed mochi is sprinkled with corn flour, then beaten again to form and cut into pieces.
Villager of Taipingshan Village, Luniao Town, Yuhang, Wang Xiaoping:
is more sticky because glutinous rice itself, so he needs to spend more effort. Everyone playing mochi together can increase the harmony of the neighborhood.
The mochi made during the heavy snow season can be stored until around the Spring Festival; it is fragrant, waxy, and tenacious.
There is also a unique way of eating locally. The mochi is fried into double-sided golden brown and topped with fillings made with winter bamboo shoots and shredded pork. Gently bite, the outside is crispy and the inside is waxy, and the mouth is full of delicious fragrance.
Villager of Taipingshan Village, Luniao Town, Yuhang Wang Wenjing:
is glutinous. The stuffing is best pickles, winter bamboo shoots, and then some eggs.
mountain village started brewing red yeast wine
and in Xikou Village of Yuhang Baizhang, Ye Zhonggen, who has more than 40 years of winemaking experience, also began to brew this year's red yeast wine. Fill a wooden bucket with glutinous rice, put it on a homemade stove, light firewood and steam it slowly.
Accompanied by the jumping fire, the scent of glutinous rice began to diffuse.
After 30 minutes of high fire steaming, spread the cooked glutinous rice on a bamboo plaque and let it cool, then put it in a large tank together with red yeast rice and mountain spring water, and wait for 20 to 30 days to ferment. Z1z
Villager of Xikou Village, Baizhang Town, Yuhang, Ye Zhonggen:
15 catties of glutinous rice, 25 catties of water and red yeast rice, more than two catties of red yeast rice, it takes about 30 days to turn into wine.
brewing red yeast rice wine requires nearly ten processes such as soaking rice, steaming rice, turning wine, and fermentation. The brewed red yeast rice wine is rich in amino acids and vitamins, and has the effects of warming the stomach and dispelling cold.
Big Snow Marinated Meat
As the saying goes, Xiaoxue pickled vegetables, Big Snow cured meat. In the blink of an eye, 2020 is coming to an end, and the most important Spring Festival among Chinese traditional festivals is also approaching. Some of the special delicacies that belong to this season have also quietly appeared on everyone's tables.
In the past few days, Mr. Xu from the west of the city began to make a delicacy that Hangzhou people are very familiar with. Early in the morning, he prepared the basin and soy sauce, and started to make the annual year-end delicacy- sauce meat.
Citizen Xu Guangcai: After
is set in this way, I have to look through it every other day.
sauce meat, meat is the key. Uncle Xu said that the pork ribs should be slightly fatter. The soy sauce will be oily after steaming, and steamed together with winter bamboo shoots and dried tofu, it tastes best.
As for the soy sauce for sauced meat, it can be said that each family has their own preference: some people like to add pepper, others like to add honey, and the most traditional way of making sauced meat is pure soy sauce. However, the color of the soy sauce should be reddish. Like I like to use Huyang soy sauce, the color is good. The selected pork ribs of
can be dried after three days of sauces, and they can be tasted after they have been dried for three sunny days.
Uncle Xu showed us an old photo of his home. The photo recorded a New Year's Eve dinner of Uncle Xu's family 35 years ago. At the warm reunion banquet, the centerpiece is a plate of sauced meat.
Uncle Xu told us that now that the conditions are good, we can eat sauced meat all year round, but I always feel that the taste is only if you do it yourself. Eating sauced meat also shows that the countdown to the Chinese New Year has entered.
Citizen Xu Guangcai:
from this childhoodtaste good. Eating this is basically because it’s cold, it’s the Chinese New Year, and the taste of the new year is coming.
Heavy Snow Health: "Winter tonic, open spring to fight tigers"
Heavy snow is the third solar term in winter, which means that the temperature has dropped significantly and the amount of precipitation will also increase significantly. Recently, people with a history of cardiovascular disease should pay attention to the fact that cold is likely to cause vasoconstriction and decreased metabolism, which is a high incidence of hypertension and stroke. In addition, cold protection and warmth are not sloppy, soaking your feet is a good choice.
Fanghuichuntang Linping Hall Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine Luo Shuqian:
soaking feet we must pay attention to the temperature, especially the elderly, because his perception will be a little numb, our temperature should not be too high, generally 50 degrees water is fine.
The general time for soaking your feet is 15 to 20 minutes. If the time is too short, wormwood will not be absorbed in it, and too long is not good for the skin of the feet.
After the heavy snow and solar terms, it is a good time for "tonic". The folks have known the "tonic in winter, to fight the tiger in spring" .
Experts reminded that for people with physique prone to fire, you can eat some warming and tonic herbs, such as lily and old duck pot. For those with cold hands and feet, try Angelica Ginger and Lamb Soup.
Fanghuichuntang Linping Hall Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine Luo Shuxi:
put 10 grams of angelica, 100 grams of mutton, and more than ten grams of ginger. Because angelica has the effect of invigorating and replenishing blood, lamb is also warm and dry, which can help you. Ward off the cold.
