What have we eaten since ancient times?
Cold dew is used to eating chrysanthemum wine, flower cakes and sesame seeds.
Chrysanthemum wine: cold dew is close to the Double Ninth Festival, and chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of the autumn dryness, some areas have the custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine", which, together with climbing, gradually moves towards the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemum, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast, which was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging. When it comes to keeping in good health during the cold dew season, people can drink more medlar chrysanthemum tea. In ancient times, people would take a bath with newly added Lycium barbarum after cold dew, which could prevent people from getting old. If it is troublesome, making a pot of wine or tea and drinking it every day can also play a "pleasant" role.
Flower cake: Because the weather is getting colder, flowers and trees are about to die, so people call it "tattoo". 1999 Climbing the mountain, we still have to eat flower cakes. Because "high" and "cake" are homophonic, we should call the cake "Chongyang Flower Cake", which means "step by step". Flower cakes mainly include "coarse flower cakes", "fine flower cakes" and "money flower cakes". Sticking some coriander leaves as a sign, sandwiched with dried fruits such as olives, dates and walnuts: there are three or two layers of fine flower cakes, and each layer is sandwiched with finer candied dried fruits, such as candied apples, peaches, apricots and dates; Money flower cake and fine flower cake are basically the same. But it is very small, like "money", and it is mostly the food of the upper class aristocrats.
Precautions for cold dew diet
In the cold dew season, you should eat more soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, japonica rice, honey and dairy products, and at the same time increase chicken, duck, beef, pig liver, fish, shrimp, jujube and yam to increase your physical fitness; Eat less spicy products, such as pepper, ginger, onion, garlic, etc., because overeating spicy food will hurt the yin essence of the body. If you can cook a hundred dates and lotus seeds, it is also a good way to keep fit. Ginkgo porridge often drinks them and often eats some yams and horseshoes.
The health care of cold dew diet should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors. According to the individual's specific situation, eating more sweet, light and moist foods can not only replenish the spleen and stomach, but also moisten the lungs and intestines to prevent dry throat and mouth. Fruits include pears, persimmons, water chestnuts and bananas. Vegetables include carrots, wax gourd, lotus root, tremella and beans, fungi, kelp and seaweed. Eat warm food for breakfast, and it is best to drink hot medicinal porridge, because both japonica rice and glutinous rice have good functions of strengthening the spleen and stomach and invigorating the middle qi, such as sugarcane porridge, Yuzhu porridge, Adenophora adenophora porridge, raw porridge, Yuzhu porridge and so on. Middle-aged and elderly people and patients with chronic diseases should eat more red dates, lotus seeds, yams, ducks, fish, meat and other foods.
Autumn has been a golden autumn since ancient times, and the lung belongs to gold in the five elements, so lung qi corresponds to golden autumn qi. "In the golden autumn season, it is dry." At this time, the dryness of pathogenic factors will easily invade the human body and consume the yin essence of the lungs. If nursed back to health improperly, the human body will have a series of autumn dryness symptoms such as dry throat, dry nose and dry skin. Therefore, the diet in late autumn should nourish yin and moisten dryness (lung). The ancients said, "In autumn, you should eat hemp to moisten it."
What fruit does cold dew eat in solar terms?
Sugarcane:
Sugarcane has the function of nourishing and clearing away heat, and is rich in nutrition. It has a certain curative effect on cough, nausea and deficiency heat caused by hypoglycemia, dry stool and unfavorable urination. Anyone who is overworked or often hungry due to careless eating can eat some sugar cane, which can make people feel refreshed.
Pear:
Pears are also rich in juice, which can protect the liver and help digestion, and pears are cold foods, so for some people with poor spleen and stomach function, it is not advisable to eat more.
Apple:
Apples also have the effects of promoting fluid production, moistening the lungs and appetizing. For some people with indigestion, you can drink apple juice. Apple can also eliminate and prevent people's fatigue. Excessive potassium in apples will also combine with sodium in human body. People who eat more salt can eat more apples.
Pomegranate:
Pomegranate tastes a little sour, and has the functions of killing insects, astringing and astringing intestines, which can improve some symptoms such as diarrhea and bloody stool.
Grapes:
Grape tastes sweet and sour, and has the functions of promoting fluid production, quenching thirst, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. At the same time, it can replenish blood and strengthen the body, which is not suitable for some people with weak spleen and stomach.
Grapefruit:
Grapefruit can strengthen the stomach, promote digestion, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is a good fruit for patients with chronic cough and gastropathy. At the same time, grapefruit is rich in vitamin C, which is good for cardiovascular disease and obesity patients.
Hawthorn:
Sour, sweet, slightly warm, extremely rich in nutrition. In every100g of fresh hawthorn pulp, vitamin C is as high as 89 mg, ranking third among fruits. Especially, its calcium content is 85 mg per 100 g pulp, which is also among the best. It is very suitable for children and pregnant women to need calcium, and has obvious curative effect on more than ten diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes.