What can and cannot be eaten during the Ghost Festival? How to maintain health during the Ghost Festival in 2021?

What can and cannot be eaten during the Ghost Festival? How to maintain health during the Ghost Festival in 2021?
Because the Zhongyuan Festival is the Ghost Festival, the gates of the Yin are wide open, and the Qi of heaven and earth are interacting and rotating. Therefore, people can easily be infected by the evil Yin energy if they are not careful. This can be explained from the perspective of traditional medicine of the Five Elements and Six Qi. So, what can we eat and what can’t we eat during the Ghost Festival? How can we stay healthy during the Ghost Festival in 2021? The goodness of days in different months is different. To find out whether the days in the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021 are good, you can click on Mr. Shui Mo’s website to check relevant knowledge.

What to eat during the Zhongyuan Festival?

1. Eat steamed buns <br /> Paper is burned during the Ghost Festival, but pregnant women are prohibited from folding paper ingots. It is said that the paper ingots folded by pregnant women cannot be taken by ghosts after being burned, and it is of no use to send them to the underworld.
While the fireworks were being set off, the mage threw buns and fruits to the audience. Legend has it that if a woman grabs a bun, she will have a child the following year. If the child grabs the bun, he will never be frightened in his life.
2. Eat duck <br /> This is a homophonic phrase, “duck” means “press”, so eating duck can suppress the ghosts that come from the sky to “seek food” (Dongguan dialect).

What can’t you eat during the Ghost Festival?

1. Do not steal the offerings <br /> Offerings are food for worshipping the deceased and cannot be eaten casually like normal.
2. Don’t eat chicken <br /> Chickens cannot be used as offerings because the claws of chickens will dig out the money and things sent to the ancestors.
The wishes of the younger generations cannot be conveyed to their ancestors, so they send ducks as messengers of sacrifice.

How to maintain health during the Ghost Festival in 2021?

The ancients believed that ghosts and gods were of the "yin" element, so they called July the "Ghost Month."
It is mentioned in "Shuowen Jiezi": "In July, the Yin energy is formed." Because this month marks the beginning of autumn, the Yin energy between heaven and earth begins to become active.
When Yin energy grows, people with Qi or Yang deficiency will feel tired and prone to illness.
In addition, the weather is still very hot and humid, so some friends may experience alternating constipation and diarrhea, gastrointestinal colds, skin allergies and other problems.
Health preservation during the Zhongyuan Festival: replenishing qi and removing dampness, removing dampness and heat from the lower part of the body

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