Water and moisture condensation for dew, autumn is gold, golden white, white dew color, and gas is cold. -- "The Seventy-two Pentads of the Moon"

White dew solar term health

White dew season, autumn dryness hurts people, can eat some vitamin-containing fruits and vegetables or with traditional Chinese medicine food therapy, such as American ginseng, ginseng, almond, sichuan shellfish, etc..

White dew gastrointestinal qi and blood is not filled, at this time the diet should reduce bitterness and increase xin, in order to raise the heart, liver, spleen and stomach; Also unfavorable take food too full, lest intestines and stomach accumulate sluggish, change unripe gastrointestinal disease.

Recuperate diet, reduce bitter increase xin

White dew season, autumn dryness hurts people, can eat some vitamin-containing fruits and vegetables or with traditional Chinese medicine food therapy, such as American ginseng, ginseng, almond, sichuan shellfish, etc.. White dew gastrointestinal qi and blood is not filled, at this time the diet should reduce bitterness and increase xin, in order to raise the heart, liver, spleen and stomach; Also unfavorable take food too full, lest intestines and stomach accumulate sluggish, change unripe gastrointestinal disease.

Autumn breakfast porridge, conditioning the spleen and stomach

White dew solar term, people are prone to spleen and stomach weakness, poor digestion symptoms, resistance has decreased. Should eat more warm, nourishing porridge, can not only treat the autumn cold, but also prevent autumn dryness, is of great benefit to health.

White dew season suitable porridge products are lotus seed lily porridge, sweet potato porridge, red dates and glutinous rice porridge, has the effect of nourishing qi and blood, spleen and kidney.

Don't show your belly when you are white

After the White Dew period is over, you can't wear clothes shirtless. At this time the weather is changeable, the temperature difference between morning and evening is larger, should be timely add clothes. Sleep not cold, otherwise easy to catch a cold, but also easy to induce bronchitis, asthma, peptic ulcer and other chronic diseases. Excessive gluttonous cold is easy to damage the spleen and stomach Yang qi, especially the spleen and stomach deficiency cold should be taboo.

Rub your ears and soak your feet to nourish your kidney

Start from white dew, cool gradually thick, some people will appear cold hands and feet, afraid of cold, fatigue and other symptoms, this is the performance of kidney qi is insufficient, so often to the kidney "pump". In the evening, insist on using warm water bubble feet 15 to 30 minutes, water did not pass ankle, bubble to the body slightly fever is best. Soak the feet while the ears and waist rub hot, kidney in the ear, rub hot ears can effectively tonify kidney qi.

Qingming festival custom

Receipted dew

Chinese folk in the white dew solar term has "collect clear dew" custom, Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica" record: "Autumn dew fan, to plate collection, fried such as Yi, yan Nian not hungry." "Baicao head autumn dew, not rap when the collection, more diseases, stop thirst, make the person light not hungry, muscle yue Ze." "Dew on flowers makes a person good color". Therefore, collecting clear dew has become the most special "ceremony" of white dew.

Drink the millennium tea

White dew tea is picked during the white dew season. There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, we should drink tea and autumn white dew". At this time, tea plants go through the heat of summer, and white dew is another good time for growth. Unlike spring tea, white dew tea is neither fresh and tender, nor dry and bitter like summer tea. It has a bit more overdone flavor and feels just right. Sip gently, lips and teeth full of sweet taste, loved by the old tea guests.

Eat sweet potatoes

Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of minerals, sugar content up to 15% ~ 20%. Sweet potato has anti-cancer, heart protection, prevention of emphysema, diabetes, weight loss and other effects. Chinese medicine regards sweet potato as a good medicine and enjoys the reputation of "longevity food". Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "sweet potato tonic deficiency, spleen appetizer, strong kidney Yin." Folk believe that white dew eating sweet potato can make the meal will not send stomach acid, old farmers in the White dew festival to eat sweet potato as a habit.

Eat longan

In Fuzhou, Fujian province, there is a traditional custom called "White dew must eat longan". The folk belief is that eating longan on white Dew day has the magical effect of greatly tonifying the body. Because longan itself is beneficial to qi tonifying spleen, nourishing blood to calm nerves, moisturizing skin beauty and other functions, it can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases, and the longan before White dew is big and sweet taste good, so white dew eating longan is the best.

Sip rice wine

Zixing xingning, Sandu, liao River area has always had the custom of wine making. Every year when the White Dew Festival comes, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine warm in the hot, slightly sweet, called "white dew rice wine".

Offering the yuwang

King Yu was the legendary hero of flood control dayu, who was called the "god of waterways" by fishermen around Taihu Lake. Every year on the White Dew Festival, taihu people hold a incense party to worship King Yu. In the meantime, "The Fishing family" is a play that must be performed, sustenance of people's expectations for a better life.

Ten samples of white

In Wenzhou, Zhejiang province and other places have the custom of white dew Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people gather "ten kinds of white" (there is also "three kinds of white") on this day to stew black bone white feather chicken (or duck), it is said that after eating can nourish the body, to wind (arthritis). These "ten kinds of white" are 10 herbs with "white" character, such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., to correspond with "white dew" literally.

In the autumn of club

Both autumn and Spring were "society days" in ancient times to offer sacrifices to the earth god. The Autumn Festival is usually held on the fifth day of the start of Autumn, about 40 days after the start of Autumn. It is usually held around white dew and autumn Equinox. It is a festive activity to celebrate harvest and offer sacrifices to gods.