Tomorrow is the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. The northern part of our country will start celebrating the new year, and friends in the south will have to wait another day. When the new year arrives, it means that every household must rush to buy new year's goods and prepare for the arrival of the new year.
According to our traditional customs in China, during the Spring Festival, everyone must reunite with their families and friends. The form of the gathering is one big meal after another. No matter how difficult our living conditions were in the past, we must have a better meal than usual during the Spring Festival. In this rare New Year’s Eve dinner, people’s expectations for the new year and the beautiful vision of life in the coming year are entrusted. The custom has been passed down to this day.
Even though our living conditions are better now, we can basically eat whatever we want, but when it comes to festivals, when we buy new year’s goods, we still have to buy a lot of big fish and meat. This is the inheritance of folk customs, and we don’t have to change it, but maybe we During the holidays, there are several meals of big fish and meat in a row, and it is indispensable to "gain three catties every festive season".
So, in such a festive festival, apart from properly controlling our mouths, what else can we do to make us spend the festival healthier without "fat three catties"?
In fact, when buying new year's goods at home, just bring a piece of barley tea with you.
Everyone knows that when we usually go to a restaurant to eat, the store will give a pot of water first before serving the food. We drink it with a strong aroma of fried grains. Drinking it after eating is very greasy. The store The complimentary pot of water is actually barley tea.
Barley, also known as Mou wheat, rice wheat, and naked barley, has similar nutritional components to wheat, but the cellulose content is slightly higher than that of wheat.
It is said that as early as the middle Neolithic Age, the ancient Qiang people had already started to cultivate barley in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, with a history of 5,000 years ago. Barley has the characteristics of early maturity, drought tolerance, salt tolerance, low temperature and cold tolerance, and barren tolerance, so it is widely cultivated and is planted in most parts of my country.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records barley: "Salty, warm, slightly cold, and non-toxic. It is mainly used to treat fullness, bloating, earwig urinary sores, soup burns, and difficulty urinating."
We don't often consume barley, but in fact barley has many health functions and uses. It has the effect of "quenching thirst and removing heat, nourishing qi, tonifying deficiency and inferiority, strengthening blood vessels, benefiting color, strengthening five internal organs, transforming grain food, stopping diarrhea, and immobilizing wind. Long-term food will make people fat, white, and smooth skin" .
Barley has a nutty aroma. Naked barley is fried and ground, and can be made into tsampa for consumption. Wort can be used to flavor milk drinks and cakes. Barley malt is the main raw material for brewing beer. And barley tea is a traditional refreshing drink widely circulated among the people in China, Japan and Korea. The barley is roasted until it is browned, and before consumption, it only needs to be brewed with hot water to infuse a rich and fragrant tea.
The best thing is that barley tea does not contain theophylline, caffeine, tannin and other substances, it does not stimulate the nerves, does not affect sleep, does not pollute the tea set, and does not pollute the teeth. Drink it regularly, it can reduce temperature and detoxify, invigorate the spleen and lose weight, clear away heat and heat, remove fishy smell, remove greasy, help digestion, moisturize skin and black hair.
In addition, children with food accumulation, sallow complexion, old and weak, friends who eat less and are weak, taking some barley tea can play a role in nourishing qi and invigorating the stomach; people with peptic ulcer, taking barley as the staple food, can calm stomach qi , relieve dull pain; drinking barley tea in the hot summer can clear away summer heat, promote body fluids, eliminate restlessness and quench thirst.
Because during the festival, it is easy for us to overeat. After being fat, sweet and greasy, drinking some barley tea can help us digest food and relieve greasiness. It can be said to be a must-have healthy drink during the festival.
So, barley tea is so good, who else is not suitable for drinking barley tea?
Now clinical studies have shown that for lactating women, both raw malt and fried malt may have the effect of promoting lactation and returning milk. Therefore, female friends who are breastfeeding must be cautious when taking it. In addition, do not take it on an empty stomach.
Because young people have little time to work and work outside, more elderly people are in charge of making New Year’s goods for their families. The elderly in the family look forward to their children’s reunion every holiday, and they will prepare a very sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner. The children who have been away for a year go home to eat a good meal, and they may ignore that everyone will overeat. So, now that we know about barley tea, hurry up and help the elders in the family to prepare some. I believe that after enjoying the perfect New Year’s Eve dinner, brewing a pot of fragrant barley tea for everyone will also be welcomed by the whole family. of.
