What are the dietary customs of solar terms?

Today is the wake-up call in the 24 solar terms. On this day, hibernating animals were awakened and the long hibernation was over. Stinking means that thunder begins, the temperature rises gradually, the land thaws, spring ploughing begins, and hibernating animals that are dormant in the ground begin to wake up and break through the ground. People have the custom of eating pears when they are startled, because it is warm and cold when they return to the earth in spring, and the climate is relatively dry, which makes people thirsty and cough easily. Pear, cold and sweet, has the effects of moistening lung and relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. So pears are especially suitable for eating in this season.

Before and after the shock, eat more sweets and alkaline foods, such as sweet foods such as jujube, yam and potato, and alkaline vegetables and fruits rich in sodium, calcium, magnesium and potassium, such as pears, apples, strawberries, grapes, bananas, wax gourd, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, eggplant, spinach, persimmons, beans and dairy products, and adhere to the principle of "preserving acid and sweetening" in spring. There are also loquat, lily, tremella, lotus root, yam and jujube. And drugs such as Adenophora adenophora, Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum odoratum and Polygonatum sibiricum. , can moisten the lungs and strengthen the spleen. In the case of proper physical fitness, taking these drugs often in spring will be of great benefit to the body.