July and a half is a relatively special folk festival, and its birth time can be traced back to the worship of ancestors in ancient times. In ancient times, every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the people would celebrate the harvest, reward the earth, and sacrifice the ancestors, so July and a half was also called the "Ancestor Worship Festival" in the past. With the development of Taoism and Buddhism, July and a Half gradually integrated into the "Zhongyuan Festival" of Taoism, the "Obon Festival" of Buddhism, these three festivals happen to be the same day, different cultures and traditions blend and influence each other, and gradually form a "ghost festival" with a wide range of folk activities and some religious etiquette, but the core of "honoring the ancestors and fulfilling filial piety" has not changed.
In addition to worshipping ancestors, there are also some unique customs on the day of July and a half, such as eating duck, which has a wider range of influence. In Guangxi, zhongyuan festival is also known as "duck festival", locals believe that "the undead can stand on the duck, in the yin and yang two realms shuttle, ancestors on the day of the zhongyuan festival to go home to visit relatives, cross the forgotten river to use a boat, the living people to send some ducks down, carry them to sail home"; in the Buddhist meaning, the white duck swims in the water, like a bright lamp, take its "river lamp Pudu" meaning, and say "duck" is "pressure", can suppress the charm of the stingray can not move. In short, the custom of eating duck meat on this day in July and a half is exquisite everywhere, sharing a duck meat recipe.
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Ingredients used: 1/2 duck, wild mushrooms, white fungus to taste, 1 piece of ginger, 5 red dates, 4 guiyuan, hawthorn slices, ginseng, angelica, goji berries to taste, salt and MSG to taste.
1, duck meat rinsed and soaked for 10 minutes; white fungus and wild mountain fungus foam for backup, fungi can choose their own varieties.
2, prepare ginger slices, guiyuan, red dates to taste, about 5 grams of ginseng, angelica, goji berries, a few pieces of hawthorn dried to fishy.
3: Add a few spoonfuls of rice wine, shallots and ginger slices to the pot in cold water, boil on high heat for 2 minutes and then remove the duck and set aside.
4: Put a little oil in the pot, pour the duck meat into the pot and stir-fry until the skin is brown, cook half a spoonful of white wine and stir-fry a few times, pour out the excess oil.
5: Add boiling water that has not been duck, bring to a boil over high heat for 3 minutes, and the soup will turn milky white.
6: Add shredded white fungus, wild mushrooms, ginger, red dates, guiyuan and other accessories, cover the pot and bring to a boil.
7, all the ingredients together into the casserole, slow cooking for an hour and a half, pay attention to the different cooking utensils used, the amount of water added is also different, the time is longer, do not boil dry.
8: Add an appropriate amount of salt and MSG to taste before coming out of the pot, stir well and simmer for a few minutes to taste.
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Autumn is actually very suitable for eating duck season, duck meat is warm and peaceful, the taste is fresh, suitable for stew, whether it is "sticking autumn fat" or health and wellness is a good choice. When boiling duck soup, remember to blanch the water first, and then slightly stir-fry after stewing soup, supplemented by Angelica, Party ginseng and other Chinese herbs, stewed duck soup is unusually fragrant, without any peculiar smell, both the elderly and children like to drink, is the autumn and winter season of the tonic.
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