Today, it is January 25, 2022, the 23rd day of the lunar month of the Year of the Ugly, the traditional festival of the north - Little Year!
This day is the day of folk dust sweeping and sacrificing stoves, the Song Dynasty small Chinese New Year's Eve or the twenty-fourth day of the Waxing Moon, the "Record of Dream Liang", which records the life of the Song Dynasty, it is said: "The twenty-fourth day is not rich or poor, all prepare vegetables and eat dumplings and beans for the stove." On this day, the market and neighbors sell five-colored rice food, flowers and fruits, gum tooth dumplings, and rice beans, and the sound is boiling. Today, the "little year" has different concepts and dates in different places.
Zheng Xuan's note on the Book of Rites and Notations says: "(Vesta) dwells in the human world, and the priest is a minor, and the accuser is also." It can be seen that in the Han Dynasty, the custom of sacrificing stoves has been spread in the northern Central Plains.
The small year in the northern region is the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, most of the southern region is the twenty-fourth month of the waxing moon, the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai regions call the "twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon" and the "night before the Chinese New Year's Eve" as the small year, the Nanjing region calls the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month as a small year, the small year date in some parts of Yunnan is the sixteenth day of the first month, and the date of the small year in the southwest and parts of the north is Chinese New Year's Eve.
"Sacrifice Words"
Southern Song Dynasty Fan Chengda
On the twenty-fourth day of the ancient Fu La, the Emperor of The Stove wanted to say something to the heavens.
The cloud car wind horse small stay, the family has cups and plates of abundant ceremonies.
Pork head rotten hot pisces fresh, bean sand and pine powder bait balls.
The boy offered his daughter to avoid, and the wine burned money stove Junxi.
Sons of struggle Jun Mo Wen, cat dog horns Dirty Jun Mo Fu;
Send the king drunk and full to the gate of heaven, and the long and short do not return to the clouds.
Begging for the return of the city of Scoring.
The northern Xiaonian used to eat dumplings at night, which means to send off the king of the stove, and takes the meaning of "sending off the dumplings to the wind". In many places in the north, dumplings are an indispensable delicacy during festivals or family reunions.
However, patients with liver disease should pay attention to these points when eating dumplings.
1, to avoid eating leek stuffed dumplings
Due to the weak digestive function of the gastrointestinal tract in patients with liver disease, leeks contain higher fiber, which will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract.
Of course, it is best to eat dumplings with radish, cabbage, and green onions, which are easy to digest.
2, dumpling filling as far as possible to avoid greasy
Dumplings stuffed with too much fat meat or too much oil, it will be difficult to digest, for patients with liver disease, increase the burden of the stomach and intestines, easy to induce indigestion. Try to use lean meat to make dumpling fillings.
3, should not eat fried dumplings
The dough of fried dumplings is more difficult to digest after frying, and it is relatively greasy, which is not suitable for patients with liver disease, especially those with cirrhosis. In addition, the dumplings must be cooked, if sandwiched, it will cause indigestion, bloating, gastrointestinal discomfort.
The custom in the south is to eat tangyuan, so what is the attention of tangyuan?
Tangyuan is a kind of food based on glutinous rice and sugar, in addition to glutinous rice flour contains a lot of starch, there is also a lot of sugar in the filling.
Patients with liver disease can eat sweets in moderation, but in moderation, otherwise it will increase the burden on the liver and increase the occurrence of fatty liver.
Some people like to use mash to cook tangyuan, mash for fermented food, although the taste is mellow, rich in nutrients, but contains a small amount of alcohol, has a direct stimulating effect on liver cells, may aggravate liver damage, is not suitable for liver disease patients to eat.
Patients with cirrhosis should try to avoid eating lanterns, and most patients with cirrhosis have varying degrees of esophageal gastric varicose veins. The Lantern is highly viscous, not easy to digest, will increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, easy to induce varicose blood vessel rupture and cause gastrointestinal bleeding, life-threatening.
Some patients with liver disease have diabetes mellitus, and they should pay attention to the sugary fillings in the rice balls, such as bean paste, red dates, fruit fillings, etc., should eat less or not, and pay attention to monitoring blood sugar.
Some patients with liver disease are accompanied by fatty liver disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, and it is not advisable to eat tangyuan containing cream, peanuts, black sesame seeds, walnut kernels, egg yolks and other fillings.
From today onwards, northerners began to prepare New Year goods, catch up with the New Year's market, sweep the New Year, write the Spring Festival, paste window flowers, clean up, and make the windows in the home clean and refreshing. I am also here to wish you all a happy and happy new year!