What can’t you do during the Lantern Festival in 2019? What to eat during the Lantern Festival
The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the year. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. So what can't we do on the Lantern Festival in 2019? What to eat during the Lantern Festival? The arrival of the first month of the lunar calendar means that the new year has begun. Do you want to know more about the first month of the lunar calendar? Please visit Shuimoxiansheng.com for the special topic of the first month of the lunar calendar in 2019.What can’t you do during the Lantern Festival in 2019?The 15th day of the first lunar month of the year 2019 (Lunar calendar)February 19, 2019, Tuesday, Pisces (solar calendar) 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Pray for blessings, get married, move, bring in wealth, move into a new house, build a stove, accept a bride price, recruit a son-in-law, offer sacrifices, fast and offer sacrifices, build houses, pray for an heir, break ground, take up a post, erect pillars, plant, sign certificates, catch and enroll in school [Today's taboos in the old almanac] Repair graves, bury beds, cut wood, raise beams, take in livestock, build houses, start drilling, travel meridians, break ground, open markets, six stars lose first, twelve gods take over positions Today's conflicts and combinations: conflict with the Snake, self-punishment with the Pig, harm with the Monkey, destruction with the Tiger, compatible with the Tiger, three-way compatibility with the Rabbit and the Sheep, six-way compatibility with the Tiger The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month in 2019 is not an auspicious day according to the old almanac. As this day is in conflict with the snake, people with the snake zodiac sign should pay attention to travel safety and act cautiously on the Lantern Festival. 2019 Lantern Festival Taboos:1. On the Lantern Festival, it is best not to lend money to others, otherwise, it will be easy for others to borrow your luck this year.2. On the Lantern Festival, the rice jar and the flour jar should not be empty, because there is an ancient saying that running out of food is a disaster. 3. On the Lantern Festival, be careful not to tear your clothes. Otherwise, it is easy to be ruined and unlucky for a year. 4. On the Lantern Festival, avoid killing any living beings or seeing blood. Otherwise, this year is likely to cause financial loss, illness, and injury. 5. On the Lantern Festival, you should avoid using bad words or swearing. Otherwise, this year you may easily suffer misfortune due to your words or inadvertently saying the wrong thing. 6. Avoid washing or cutting your hair on the Lantern Festival. Because "fa" is like the word for getting rich, if you wash or cut your hair on this day, your wealth will be washed away and you will not be able to save anything for a year. What to eat during the Lantern Festival?1. Tangyuan During the Lantern Festival, people in the south eat tangyuan, mainly to pray for family reunion. The glutinous rice used to make Tangyuan is mild in nature, sweet in taste, and can replenish deficiency and regulate blood, strengthen the spleen and appetite, invigorate qi and stop diarrhea. It has the functions of warming the middle, promoting body fluid and moisturizing dryness. Furthermore, the regular fillings of various types of glutinous rice balls are mainly fruits and dried fruits, including sesame seeds, walnuts, peanuts, and add vegetable oil, which makes the nutritional value "even higher." Boiling glutinous rice balls is the simplest way to prepare them, and it is actually also the healthiest way to eat them.2. Oil tea: Food for the Lantern Festival night, in plain areas it is called “flat dumplings on the 15th, and round dumplings on the 16th”, people eat dumplings one day and Lantern Festival on the next; in mountainous areas it is “oil tea on the 15th, and flat dumplings on the 16th”. This is exactly what is meant by “customs vary every ten miles”. Making tea means stirring the tea with chopsticks and putting it into the pot to make oil tea, also known as noodle tea. 3. Sticky cake is also known as rice cake. In addition to Yuanxiao and noodles, people also eat sticky cakes during the Lantern Festival. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Prescriptions for Emergencies: Food Therapy" that "Rice is sweet, slightly cold, non-toxic, can remove heat and benefit Qi." After the Tang Dynasty, there were also records of eating cakes on the Lantern Festival in the Yuan Dynasty. 4. Bean flour lanterns When talking about the customs of the Lantern Festival, people usually think of eating rice dumplings, appreciating lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles. However, there is another custom that has been passed down from the Han Dynasty, which is lighting bean flour lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The lights of the Lantern Festival are auspicious lights that can drive away evil spirits and cure diseases. Therefore, people make bean flour lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to pray for family happiness and prosperity in the new year. 5. Bean dough: People in Kunming like to eat bean dough. The preparation is similar to that of Yuanxiao. The beans are fried and then ground into flour. After being rolled into balls, they are boiled in water. It tastes good. 6. Zaozong: People in Taizhou eat Zaozong after watching the lanterns on the 14th day of the first lunar month every year. The rice soup is made by stir-frying shredded pork, shredded winter bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, fresh dragonfly, dried tofu, fried dough sticks, Sichuan bean curd, spinach, etc., then adding a little rice flour and cooking it into a salty paste. The fermented rice soup drunk on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is sweet, made with sweet potato starch or lotus root starch, lotus seeds, sweet dates, longans, etc. 7. Noodles: There is a folk saying in Jiangbei area that goes "Eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month and hope for the new year." Locals eat noodles on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month. It sounds unrelated to the Lantern Festival, but it also means praying for good luck. "Yihui Sui Shi Ji" records: "On the 18th day of the first lunar month, the lanterns are turned off and people eat noodles, which is commonly known as 'dumplings for the lanterns and noodles for the lanterns'. Each family holds their own banquet to celebrate." Eating noodles when the lanterns are turned off symbolizes continuous joy. 8. Yuanxiao Tea In Shaanxi and other places, there is a custom of eating Yuanxiao tea, which is to put various vegetables and fruits into the hot soup noodles, which is very similar to the ancient "Yuanxiao porridge". This tea increases the intake of fiber, minerals and vitamins, and is not as greasy as ordinary Yuanxiao. It can neutralize the acidic constitution caused by eating more animal foods during the festival, and also makes the Yuanxiao more nutritionally comprehensive. 9. Youchui is a traditional food for the Lantern Festival. It was rice or bean porridge topped with gravy during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. But this food is mainly used for sacrificial offerings and cannot be considered a festival food. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Zheng Wangzhi's "Records of the Chef" recorded: "People in Bianzhou celebrate the Lantern Festival with oil hammers." The method of making oil hammers, according to a record of "Shangshi Ling" in "Lu's Miscellaneous Stories" quoted in "Taiping Guangji", is similar to the later fried Yuanxiao. Some people also call it the "Pearl of Oil Painting". 10. Date Cake: People in western Henan like to eat date cake during the Lantern Festival, as it symbolizes good luck. Date cake was originally a royal pastry of the Qing Dynasty. It has a fragrant flavor and is sweet in the mouth. It contains nutrients such as vitamin C, protein, calcium, iron, vitamins, etc. It can not only nourish the spleen and stomach, invigorate qi and promote salivation, but also protect the liver, increase muscle strength, nourish the skin and prevent aging. |
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