On the twentieth day of March of the lunar calendar, no matter how busy you are, you must remember to "eat 4 things and do 1 thing" to welcome blessings and good meanings, and it is recommended to understand the old traditions!
In the long river of history, time has passed, and many traditional customs have been inherited by the people, and these old traditions and customs indirectly reflect the people's yearning and pursuit of a better life. The lunar calendar is our ancient calendar, especially in the countryside. In a blink of an eye, I came to the 20th day of March of the lunar calendar, and the 20th day of March of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the mother who sent the child.
Today is the twentieth day of March of the lunar calendar, the old generation said that no matter how busy you are, you must remember to "eat 4 things, do 1 thing" to welcome the blessing of Naxiang, here it is recommended to understand the old traditions, understand the traditional customs of our life!
One: Eat dumplings
Dumplings have a beautiful meaning in our food culture, and dumplings will be added during holidays.
Recommended Ingredients for Pork Dumplings with Leeks: flour, leeks, pork, salt, dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, ginger, green onions, peanut oil.
1. Add water to the flour and form a dough with moderate softness and hardness, chop the fresh pork into meat filling, add dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, salt, ginger, green onion, peanut oil, stir well, and finally add minced leeks and mix well.
2. Take out the dough after waking up and knead it into a small agent, roll it into a round skin, wrap it into the dumpling filling and pinch it tightly, the dumplings are ready, put water in the pot, put the dumplings into the water after the water boils, cook and take them out.
Two: Eat lotus root
In our lives, lotus root means harmony between husband and wife, good couples, and many children. "Lotus" is also known as "lotus", "lotus" and "and" homonym, lotus root means harmony between husband and wife, and its fruit lotus pod has the meaning of having many children, so there are also many children and blessings in it.
Recommended [Osmanthus Lotus Root] Ingredients: 3 sections of lotus root, a little glutinous rice, a little brown sugar, a little red dates, a little sugar osmanthus.
1. Peel and wash the lotus root, cut it from one-third, wash and soak the glutinous rice for more than 3 hours, soak it fully, stuff the soaked glutinous rice into the hole of the lotus root, and use chopsticks to assist, it can be completed soon.
2. Put the processed lotus root into the rice cooker, add a little red dates, then add an appropriate amount of brown sugar, choose to cook porridge and fry, simmer, take out a knife and cut it into thick slices, and pour osmanthus sugar on it.
Three: peanuts
Peanuts are also called "longevity fruit", which means auspicious and festive, immortal, longevity and blessings. It is an auspicious ingredient, remember to eat peanuts on the birthday of the child, and take a good fortune!
Recommended [spicy peanuts] ingredients: appropriate amount of peanuts, a little dried red pepper, a little sesame pepper, a little salt, a little star anise.
1. Wash the peanuts and put them in a basin and soak them in water for 2 minutes, then peel them, add dried red peppers, Sichuan pepper, star anise and salt and soak them overnight to remove them and control the moisture.
2. Put peanut oil in the pot, put the peanuts in the pot and fry them until golden brown, cool and scatter, add oil and peppers and mix well.
Four: Flower buns
There are many shapes of flower buns, such as lucky bags, piglets, gourds, octopuses, etc., all kinds of colliding small animals will have a beautiful meaning in it, remember to eat in March 20, welcome blessing and auspicious meaning.
Recommended Ingredients: Fruit and vegetable powder (strawberry powder, matcha powder, pumpkin powder, bamboo charcoal powder, etc.), a little flour, a little yeast powder.
1. Add fruit and vegetable powder to flour and yeast powder to form various colors of dough, strawberry powder and pink dough, matcha powder and green dough, pumpkin powder and yellow dough, bamboo charcoal powder and black dough.
2. After the dough is fermented, it is divided into small agents and made into small pigs, octopus, lucky bags, gourds and other flower buns with beautiful meanings, which are steamed in the pot.
Remember to do 1 thing on the 20th day of the third month of the lunar calendar:
On the birthday of the 20th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, remember to pay homage to the mother of the child, and pray that in the new year you can be lucky and your wishes come true!
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