Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Which custom does not belong to cold dew? Eat sesame seeds, drink chrysanthemum wine, eat crabs and eat persimmons.

Which custom does not belong to cold dew? Eat sesame seeds, drink chrysanthemum wine, eat crabs and eat persimmons.

These customs are cold dew.

Cold dew is the seventeenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth solar term in autumn. China has a tradition of eating sesame seeds, flower cakes, chrysanthemum wine, steamed crabs, persimmons and cold dew tea since ancient times. Therefore, sesame seeds, flower cakes, crabs, persimmons and chrysanthemums are five traditional foods that cannot be missed in the cold dew solar terms. Cold dew means the beginning of autumn, so many customs are the same. Cold dew is the end of January and the beginning of the full moon.