What traditional food should be eaten during Guyu? It is a good day to drink Guyu tea.

What traditional food is eaten during Guyu? The 2017 Grain Rain solar term is coming soon. Grain Rain is the last season of spring and its arrival marks the end of spring. Next, let’s take a look at what to eat during the Grain Rain solar term.

What traditional food do you eat during Guyu?

Toona sinensis

As the saying goes, "Before the rain, the buds of Toon are extremely tender, and after the rain, the buds grow out of the wood." Around the time of Grain Rain is a good time to eat Chinese toon, especially in the northern regions. Eating Chinese toon during Grain Rain is the most precious seasonal dish at the moment. At this time, the Chinese toon is mellow, refreshing and nutritious. Only at this time of the year can you taste the "flavor of spring"! Moreover, toon has the effects of improving the body's immunity, strengthening the stomach, regulating qi, stopping diarrhea, moisturizing the skin, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and insecticidal.

Drink Guyu Tea

As the folk proverb goes, "Guyu, Guyu, tea picking is in harmony with the rain." Guyu is the time for picking tea. The tea picked before Grain Rain is tender, fragrant and tastes the best, so it has become a custom to taste new tea during Grain Rain. Guyu tea is warm and cool, because Guyu grows in the mild spring, and the temperature in spring is also moderate, so Guyu tea has the effect of warming and removing internal heat, and can be used as tea therapy.

Eat cilantro

“The snow stops during Qingming and the frost stops during Grain Rain.” During the 15 days before and after Grain Rain and the last 3 days of Qingming, the spleen is in its active period. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that coriander is warm in nature and sweet in taste, can strengthen the stomach and aid digestion, promote diuresis and relieve constipation, and has the functions of sweating, clearing rashes, digesting food and relieving gas. It is suitable for colds, indigestion, etc. Eating coriander in spring can dispel the cold, which is especially suitable when the weather is chilly.

Black Rice

During the Grain Rain season every year, the Zhaoxing Dong Village has the custom of "eating black rice, making painted faces, and sowing rice seeds." On the day of Grain Rain, young men and women fully express their love. Young men would go to the girl's house and throw bamboo baskets to ask for black rice. The more people who go, the more face the girl's family feels. It is a dual expression of the local farming culture and marriage customs.