Diet meets the beginning of autumn

The Autumn Festival is also called July Day. The time begins on the Gregorian calendar on August 7 or 8 each year. Li Qiu is also the 13th solar term in the 24th solar terms. "Autumn" refers to the summer heat, which means the beginning of autumn. At the beginning of the autumn, the phoenix trees must begin to fall, so there is an idiom that says "falling one leaf and knowing autumn." Liqiu is the first solar term in autumn, and autumn is a transitional period from hot to cold, then cold to cold.

Many places in Liqiu have corresponding customs and corresponding dietary culture. So what should we eat to meet the upcoming fall in the autumn festival?

1. Watermelon or cantaloupe Jiangsu and other places to eat watermelon on the day of the beginning of autumn to "bit autumn", it is said that you can not have the autumn wolfberry. In Zhejiang and other places, watermelons and shochu are taken with food on the beginning of autumn, and folks believe that they can prevent malaria. Tianjin to eat watermelon or melon, also known as "biting autumn", which means that summer is hot and difficult to fight, every time the beginning of autumn, will bite it.

2. Meat Because of people's summer, there is no appetite. Meals are light and simple. Two or three months down, the body weight should be reduced. With the autumn wind, appetite is wide open, want to eat a little good, add a bit of nutrition, compensate for the loss of the summer, make up the method is "paste the autumn wolfberry", so in the autumn day to eat a variety of meat, stew barbecue braised pork Wait, come and paste.

3. Other Liqiu can also eat corn, hawthorn and so on, because in the countryside, eating these foods expresses the joy of this kind of harvest!

4. In the Song Dynasty, red beans had the habit of swallowing seven small red beans in autumn water. It is said that if you take seven to 14 small red beans and swallow them with well water, you should face the west when you are serving, and you can avoid diarrhea in the fall.