What should we eat in the beginning of spring in 2018? How can we maintain good health?

What should we eat in the beginning of spring in 2018? How can we maintain good health?
Nowadays, people pay more and more attention to health, and the topic of health preservation is often mentioned. The Beginning of Spring is the season when all things come back to life, and the human body gradually recovers its vitality at this time. It is excellent to preserve health at this time. The Fortune Teller website’s special topic on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar has prepared a large amount of content related to the twelfth month of the Year of the Rooster. You are welcome to check it out.

What to eat to maintain good health in the beginning of spring 2018?

What foods protect Yang Qi ? Traditional Chinese medicine believes that special attention should be paid to liver care in spring to adapt to the natural season. Therefore, when adjusting your diet, you should take into account that spring is the season when Yang energy begins to rise, so it is suitable to eat more foods with spicy and sweet dispersing properties.
The "promoting" foods that are suitable for eating at the beginning of spring include vegetables with pungent and sweet dispersing properties: rapeseed, coriander, leek, onion, mustard greens, white radish, chrysanthemum, kohlrabi, fennel, cabbage, celery, spinach, fennel, day lily, bracken, lettuce, wild rice stem, bamboo shoots, cucumber, winter melon, pumpkin, loofah, eggplant, etc.
Suitable seasoning foods : ginger, onion, garlic, pepper, fermented black beans, coriander, etc.
Sweet foods that are suitable to eat : Eat more sweet and moist foods with a slightly sweet taste, such as dates, lilies, water chestnuts, pears, longans, white fungus, etc.
The Beginning of Spring marks the beginning of spring and is the first solar term of the year. People are very particular about their diet during the Beginning of Spring. Northerners like to eat spring pancakes and vegetables on the day of the beginning of spring. Spring pancakes are eaten from beginning to end, which is called "having a beginning and an end". There is also a folk saying that eating radishes is called "biting spring". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that special attention should be paid to the maintenance of the liver in spring to adapt to the weather...
Eating radish can relieve spring fatigue and enhance reproductive function. In many places, the beginning of spring is also called "biting spring". During the Beginning of Spring in the north, the most representative food is radish, which can be eaten in many ways, such as gnawing, slicing, shredding, and making stuffing. It is recorded in the Ming Palace History by Liu Ruoyu of the Ming Dynasty: When spring begins the next day, everyone, regardless of their status, chews radishes, which is called "biting spring"; and it is recorded in the Yanjing Sui Shi Ji of the Qing Dynasty: Women often buy radishes and eat them, believing that they can ward off spring fatigue. Eating radish can not only relieve spring fatigue, but also enhance women's reproductive function. Radish at the beginning of spring is also called "descendant radish".
Eating spring pancakes with fried vegetables can protect yang energy. The custom of eating spring pancakes has a long history. In Du Fu's poem "Spring day, spring plate with fine vegetables", the spring plate here refers to the spring pancakes and vegetables served on the plate. Liu Ruoyu, a Ming Dynasty scholar, also recorded in "History of the Ming Palace": The day before the beginning of spring... people hosted a banquet and ate spring pancakes and vegetables.

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