Taiwan in "beginning of winter"There is a custom of "replenishing winter" on this day, and generally tonics usually use meat soups such as sesame oil chicken and ginger duck to restore the body's vitality. VegetariansTonicwhat can we do about it? In fact, choosing the right ingredients can also make vegetarians nourish and nourish their bodies easily, so that they can survive the winter!
What is Lidong? Get to know the customs of Lidong at one time!
The origin of Lidong
Lidong is the nineteenth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms, usually between November 6th and 8th in the Chinese calendar every year. "Li" means "start" and "establishment", while "dong" means "end" and "freeze". After the autumn harvest is over, Lidong enters, which means that winter is about to begin, crops will be put into storage, vegetation will wither, and everything will be ready to hibernate.
How to make up for the custom of Lidong tonic and health preservation? Find the nutrition that suits your body
constitution | symptom | Suitable for nourishing food |
Qi deficiency | Dizziness, fatigue, night sweats, etc. | Astragalus, ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, yam, jujube, licorice, etc. |
Anemia | Pale face and lips, dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, numb hands and feet, etc. | Angelica, fleece-flower root, longan, donkey-hide gelatin, etc. |
Yang deficiency | Symptoms of qi deficiency, cold limbs, impotence, premature ejaculation, etc. | Eucommia ulmoides, Cordyceps sinensis, Psoralen, Morinda officinalis, Lingpi, etc. |
Yin deficiency | Not only symptoms of blood deficiency, but also hot hands, feet, heart, red cheeks, night sweats, or less menstruation. | Polygonatum odoratum, Eclipta chinensis, American ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Sand ginseng, etc. |
What is Warming Tonic, Flat Tonic, Cooling Tonic?
Tonic method | principle | Ingredients | Suitable for |
warming | Promote blood circulation through warming Chinese medicinal materials, and dispel cold and warm up through warming. | Onions, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, cinnamon, longan, red dates, sweet potatoes, glutinous rice, etc. | Yang deficiency, Yin deficiency |
Compensation | The least stimulating way of tonic, can be consumed for a long time | Lotus seeds, beans, spinach, brown rice, yam, etc. | everyone |
cool tonic | Use cool ingredients to reduce body heat | Flammulina velutipes, kelp, mung beans, barley, white radish, wax gourd, etc. | Yin deficiency constitution |
What are the Lidong health ingredients? Choose the right ingredients so that you can make up for the winter and fill your mouth!
1. Soy products
How to eat supplements for vegetarians? Generally, people think of sesame oil chicken, ginger duck, herbal pork ribs, mutton stove, etc., which can warm the body. Vegetarians can try to use plant-based soy products as protein, such as: edamame, raw Bean curd sticks, frozen tofu or chickpeas are not only suitable ingredients for vegetarians, but also supplement protein without eating too much saturated fat!
2. Sesame oil
It is the most common tonic food. Sesame oil contains linoleic acid, which is a very important nutrient for the human body. It helps to stabilize blood lipids, maintain the elasticity of blood vessels, and prevent arteriosclerosis.
3. Vegetables
Tonics are usually based on hot pot ingredients, and hot pot ingredients are usually added with a lot of processed hot pot ingredients. Hot pot ingredients are actually high in sodium and phosphorus, which can easily cause kidney burden. Different types of vegetables can be used, such as mainland girl, chrysanthemum, white radish, Winter melon, white bamboo shoots, etc. can be used instead, which not only doubles the nutrition but also has no burden!
4. Mushrooms
Generally, the choice of tonic food is mainly based on medicinal food. If you eat too much of this food, you will easily get angry. Therefore, nutritionists suggest that you can take more mushrooms, such as: fungus, shiitake mushrooms, enoki mushrooms, Pleurotus eryngii, etc., which are rich in food. fiber, and at the same time reduce the effect of dryness!
5. Rhizomes
Generally, when eating hot pot, people are used to serving starchy staple food, but in fact, pumpkin, taro, lotus root, yam, etc., which are often added to hot pot, can be used as starch intake through these archetypal rhizome ingredients.
How to make vegetarian soup? Lanyang Foods has the fastest and most convenient tonic soup, so that you can survive the winter!
Lidong customs often choose Siwu soup, Bazhen soup, Shiquan Dabu soup, etc. as the soup base for tonic. Vegetarians are suitable for Chinese herbal medicines in the soup, including astragalus, angelica, chuanxiong, plus fungus, black beans and other tonic ingredients, so that the body can replenish qi, activate blood and restore vitality! Lanyang Foods for VegetariansSoup, recommend two selected soups:Premium Mushroom Soup,Hericium erinaceus with sesame oil and nuts, so that vegetarians can also take good care of themselves and nourish the winter!
Premium Mushroom Soup
Stir-fried with top-grade black sesame oil to bring out the aroma of ginger slices, combined with carefully selected natural Chinese medicinal materials such as astragalus, angelica, licorice and poria cocos, and then add mushrooms such as shiitake mushrooms and willow pine mushrooms as the main body. The soup is mild and sweet. Let you drink it in one sip, not only warm and sweet, but also nourishing and nourishing.
Hericium erinaceus with sesame oil and nuts
Hericium erinaceus is thick and elastic in the mouth, and the smooth Q-bomb taste brings a new feeling to the taste buds. It is stewed with specially selected black sesame oil and ginger to create a rich taste, and then add wolfberry, red dates, walnuts and cashew nuts to make the sesame oil flavor Tangtong is sweeter and brings out the umami of Hericium erinaceus!
In fact, there are many options for vegetarian soup. Lanyang Foods not only provides vegetarian soup, but also presents a variety of vegetarian ingredients, so that the diet of vegetarians is no longer monotonous. At the same time, there is no need to worry about how to purchase ingredients for special festivals And prepare cooking! Want to know more convenient and fast vegetarian dishes, welcome to enterSince its founding in 1984understand more!
Further reading : [Selection of Vegetarian New Year’s Dishes] What are the must-eat dishes for Chinese New Year? Three vegetarian New Year dishes are recommended for you!,Further reading: [Vegetarian Diet Guide] An article to understand how vegetarians can supplement essential nutrients for the human body
