What to eat on the fall equinox fall equinox health must eat four major foods

Traditional food eaten on the autumnal equinox:

1, eggs, "autumnal equinox" is approaching, many places in our country have to be held on this day, "vertical egg" fun games or competitions. Do not forget to eat eggs after playing "vertical egg", the nutritional benefits of eggs is very powerful.

2, autumn vegetables "autumn vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the villagers called "autumn artemisia". On the day of the autumnal equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables.

3, white radish fall eat more white radish can effectively alleviate the autumn dry. White radish has to promote digestion, enhance appetite, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis and cough phlegm effect. Eat more radish up and down the ventilation without coughing, and can be laxative.

4, silver fungus, silver fungus flat and non-toxic, both the spleen and stomach effect, but also beneficial to the role of intestines, but also nourish the yin and lungs, beauty, its medicinal value and ginseng, antler antlers, with "fungus in the crown," the reputation. Throughout the ages, the royal aristocrats have regarded the fungus as a "longevity product" and "immortality medicine". Silver fungus on the autumn dry skin caused by dryness, itching also has a certain role in improving, eat more silver fungus can make the skin become white and elastic.

The autumn equinox is the sixteenth of the twenty-four solar terms.

Autumn equinox is a day when the sun shines almost directly on the Earth's equator, and the day and night are equal in length around the globe (without taking into account the atmosphere's refraction of the sun's rays and the morning and evening shadows). In ancient times, there was a "spring festival for the sun, autumn festival for the moon", the autumn equinox was a traditional "moon festival", the current Mid-Autumn Festival is from the traditional "moon festival". Approved by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council approved, since 2018, will be the annual autumn equinox established as "Chinese farmers harvest festival".