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What custom food does the South Cold Dew eat?

Southern cold dew eats crabs, flower cakes and other customary foods.

In the cold dew season, crabs are tender, delicious, easy to digest and nutritious. Mainly steamed, authentic and well preserved. Eating crabs can nourish the body and improve human immunity. In the cold season, try the taste of crabs.

Cold dew is the solar term in autumn, and both cold dew and flower cake are related to the harvest and beauty in autumn. The raw materials of flower cake are fine flower cake, coarse flower cake, money flower cake and Osmanthus Jelly. The production process includes cooking, fermentation, rolling and stuffing. Making flower cakes means that people want to move from heights to heights and realize their goals and wishes.

Historical origin of cold dew

Cold dew is the end of the full moon in the dry calendar and the beginning of the full moon. At night, looking up at the starry sky, you will find that the "Big Mars" (Antares), which represents midsummer, has set in the west. After the cold dew, the height of the sun continued to decrease and the temperature gradually decreased. Compared with the solar terms of the Millennium, cold dew is condensed, so it is called "cold dew". Twenty-four solar terms say: at this time, the temperature is lower than that of "white dew", with more dew and cold day and night.

There is a proverb in China called "Dew first turns white and then cold", which means that after the dew festival, the dew turns from a little coolness in early autumn to a little coolness in late autumn. There is also a proverb about cold dew: "Cold dew has gone through three dynasties, and you must find a bridge when crossing the water", which means that the weather is cold and you can't wade across the river or go barefoot as before. During the cold dew,