At the end of December of the lunar calendar, because the weather in this month is most suitable for air-drying and making lap-mei, it is also called "wax moon".
As the period of the transition between the old and the new year, the wax moon was quite valued in ancient times, such as in the pre-Qin period, many places would hold the "year-end sacrifice" in the wax moon, it can be said that the wax moon is the month with the most sacrifices in the year, and even called the "sacrifice month", so there are very many festival Xi and taboos in the wax moon.
The first day of the lunar month is a day that needs to be paid attention to, and the people call this day the "bite festival". Because the lunar month is the coldest time of the year, and people are busy preparing New Year's goods, making new clothes, cleaning the house, etc., it is easy to freeze sick or be tired from busyness. In order to make themselves and their families less sick and celebrate the New Year smoothly at the end of the year, everyone must refer to the beginning of the month as the "Bite Disaster Festival", and bite into some crispy fried food and other foods with auspicious meanings to eliminate disasters and diseases.
The first day of the lunar month is coming, we must remember to "bite the disaster", eat the following six kinds of food to smoothly bite the disaster and hardship, spend the lunar month safely and healthily, and pray for good luck in the new year.
1. Stir-fried beans
The bite disaster festival is also directly called the "fried bean festival" in many places, because the full and round yellow beans symbolize the roundness and happiness, wealth and good fortune rolling, eating beans on the day of the bite disaster festival means that the disaster will be all bitten into pieces, and the next month's life will be complete and happy, healthy and good luck to welcome the arrival of the new year.
Therefore, a day or two before the festival, some people will soak the soybeans in advance with water and a little salt, soak them thoroughly and then put them outdoors or in the refrigerator to freeze, and wait until the first day of the lunar month to pour these beans into the pot and stir-fry them continuously, fry until the beans are golden and crispy, and after there are cracks, they will be sent to the mouth to chew and crunchy, and the more you eat, the more fragrant you are. If you feel that eating beans like this is not tasteful, you can add some salt, cinnamon, star anise and other spices when stir-frying.
In some places, the beans are fried in sand, and after frying, the sand is sifted clean and the beans are left. In other places, it is Xi to stir-fry green beans, broad beans, peas, black beans and other beans, and the meaning is roughly the same. Don't underestimate this bite bean, the tradition left by the ancestors is full of wisdom, beans are rich in protein, lecithin and many other nutrients and fiber, can provide immunity well, so it is not without reason to say that bite beans can eliminate disasters and reduce diseases.
2. Stir-fry melon seeds
If you don't have time to fry beans at home on the first day of the lunar month, or if you feel that the fried beans are not good and are afraid of trouble, you can also buy some fried melon seeds in advance and put them at home, and eat a handful of melon seeds on the morning of the first day of the lunar month. The melon seeds are also clicky, the melon seeds are fragrant and crispy, and it is also very good to replace the beans, and the nutritional value is not low.
Whether it is sunflower seeds, or pumpkin seeds can be, among which sunflower is born to the sun, full of vitality of a plant, eating sunflower seeds also has a bright future, vitality and many good blessings and other multiple good meanings, and the meaning of pumpkin is also particularly good, eating pumpkin seeds symbolizes good luck, wealth and wealth, happiness and sweetness of life.
But what you need to pay attention to when eating melon seeds is not to eat too much at once because you are too addicted, and then cause fire when it is dry. There are also melon seeds when buying original flavors, many melon seeds such as plum flavor, cream flavor, sea salt flavor and other flavors will put a lot of additives into it, and eating too much is not good for health.
III. Stir-fried chestnuts
The homonym of chestnuts is "Lizi", which not only has the meaning of auspiciousness, is conducive to career and study, but also has the meaning of blessing the health of future generations, so on the first day of the lunar month, you can not forget to eat chestnuts.
Moreover, chestnut is known as the "king of a thousand fruits", and even known as "ginseng fruit" in foreign countries, because its nutritional value is very high. It is best to buy some raw chestnuts by yourself, fry them at home and eat them, sweet and glutinous, healthy and delicious, if you are too busy to make your own, you can go to the street to buy some sugar fried chestnuts and eat them at home.
4. Stir-fry peanuts
In addition to fried beans, fried melon seeds, fried chestnuts, but also remember to fry some peanuts to eat, peanuts are also known as "longevity fruit" in the mainland, so this peanut also symbolizes health, longevity, many children and grandchildren, eat some peanuts on the first day of the lunar month, it means to bite off the disaster and disease, this month and the new year can also be healthy and long-lived.
Generally, peanuts are fried with shells, break open the crispy shell, the peanut kernels inside are also crispy and delicious, you can also directly use peanut kernels, with salt and some spices to fry and eat, salty and crispy, whether you eat directly, or eat with wine, it is particularly fragrant and delicious.
Recommended method: [Stir-fried salt-baked peanuts]
Ingredients: peanut kernels, salt, cinnamon, bay leaves, Sichuan pepper, ginger, dried chilies, garlic, star anise
1. Soak the peanut kernels in boiling water for one minute, remove and control the water.
2. Put it in a large dish and dry it slightly, pour the peanut kernels into a large bowl and put in a packet of salt.
3. Add dried chili peppers, bay leaves, cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, star anise, ginger slices and garlic cloves to the bowl.
4. After stirring well, pour it into a waterless and oil-free wok, and stir-fry continuously over medium-low heat.
5. Fry until the color of the salt is sandy, stir-fry over low heat, and fry until the peanuts are golden after the skin is rubbed off.
6. Remove the peanut kernels with a colander and dry them for a while without burning your hands before eating.
5. Popcorn
As the saying goes, "the first day of the lunar month jumps, the whole family can not get sick", this "jump" is also the meaning of "boom", which refers to eating good popcorn, the family will be this year's new corn kernels or rice, take the place of the rice flower, use the old-fashioned rice flower machine, popcorn or rice flower to take home to eat, this bite represents the collapse, bite away for a year's disaster, illness.
If you can't find an old-fashioned place to make popcorn, you can also make your own popcorn at home, now there are special pre-made popcorn, buy a bag and put it in the microwave to heat it into a bag of popcorn to eat, or buy some popcorn popcorn, with butter, sugar and other ingredients, use the pot to heat the homemade sweet and delicious popcorn, make it for yourself and the children at home.
Recommended method: [Homemade popcorn]
Ingredients: Popped corn, sugar, butter
1. Take a 40g piece of butter and put it in a pan.
2. Heat and melt over medium-low heat, pour in 200 grams of popping corn kernels, and cover the pot.
3. Continue to heat over medium-low heat until the corn bursts.
4. After there is no popping sound in the pot, open the lid and sprinkle sugar evenly.
5. After mixing evenly, pick out the remaining corn kernels that cannot burst and throw them away.
Sixth, eat bone eggs
On the morning of the first day of the lunar month, you must remember to boil some eggs for your family and children. Eggs are rich in nutrients, but also represent reunion happiness, happiness and peace, on the day of the bite disaster, the eggs are boiled in the shell, and then gently knocked on the child's head, and then the body bones again, and then eaten directly or processed to eat.
It is said that this means that all the bad luck and germs will be driven away, and good luck and wisdom will come, and the next year will be smooth and smooth, and there will be fewer diseases, so don't forget to give him bone eggs if you have a child at home.
Recommended method: [Boiled eggs with red dates and ginger]
Ingredients: eggs, ginger, red dates, goji berries, brown sugar
1. Wash the eggs and put them in a pot of clean water, boil for eight minutes, remove the supercooled water, cool down and remove the shells.
2. Soak the red dates and wolfberries in water respectively, and peel and shred the ginger for later use.
3. Put shredded ginger, red dates and a piece of brown sugar in a boiling pot, add water to boil, and simmer over low heat for five minutes.
4. Put the eggs in the pot, simmer for another 15 minutes, turn off the heat and simmer for a while, then you can serve them.
- Lao Jing said -
On the first day of the lunar month, in addition to "biting the disaster", there are also some taboos not to touch, so as not to affect their good luck. First of all, don't quarrel with others, as the last month of the year, it is best to be smooth, less angry, and at the end of the year, you can happily welcome the new year. Secondly, it is best not to move in the lunar month, the lunar month is generally busy preparing for the New Year, and moving is a very energy-consuming thing, if the new home is not settled smoothly, it will also affect the New Year, and it will not be able to receive the good luck of the New Year, it is better to wait for a good year, and then move again.
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