The 24 solar terms are which, corresponding to what to eat!

Lichun, commonly known as "playing spring".

The old custom of spring, both an ancient festival, but also a major festival. The son of heaven in the spring day, personally led by the vassals, doctor to welcome the spring in the eastern suburbs, the order of virtue and favor. On the day of spring, the village elected an old man, with a whip to symbolically hit the spring cow three times, means that a year of farming began. Folk artists make many small clay oxen, called "spring oxen". Sent to each house, called "send spring". The owner pays the person who delivers the oxen. It is essentially a festive sales event, but it is a happy occasion for all. In some places, a yellow paper with a spring bull on it is put on the wall. The yellow color represents the land, the spring ox represents the agricultural affairs, commonly known as "spring ox figure". Spring Festival, folk customary to eat radish, ginger, green onions, flour cakes, known as "bite spring".

Rain is not only a sign of the beginning of rainfall and the increase of rainfall, but also a sign of rising temperatures.

Before the rain, the weather is relatively cold. After the rain, the spring breeze brings warmth, disease-causing bacteria and viruses can easily spread with the wind, so spring infectious diseases are often prone to outbreaks and epidemics. You should protect yourself, pay attention to exercise, strengthen resistance, and prevent the occurrence of disease. In the rainy season, the dampness of the earth rises gradually, and there are dews and frosts in the morning. So for such climate characteristics, diet should focus on nourishing the spleen and stomach and eliminate wind and dampness. And because the climate at this time is cold, can be appropriate tonic, such as honey, jujube, yam, silver ear, etc. are suitable for this season of tonic.

Hibernation symbolizes the beginning of February.

There will be a sound of thunder, waking up all the hibernating snakes, insects, mice and ants, and the creepy crawly ants in the house will rise up in response to the sound of the sound, and look around for food. So ancient hibernation day, people will hold incense, wormwood, smoked four corners of the home to scent to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and mildew, over time, gradually evolved into the bad luck of the people who beat the head and drive away the bad luck of the habit, that is, "playing the little man" predecessor. Hibernation season, the first warm and cold, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy to make people dry mouth and tongue, cough. Raw pear cold taste sweet, have moistened the lungs and cough, nourishing Yin heat effect, folk have been eating pear hibernation custom. In addition, cough patients can also eat lotus seeds, loquat, Luo Han Guo and other foods to ease the pain, the diet should be light, greasy food is best not to eat, stimulating foods, such as chili, onion and garlic, pepper should also eat less.

Spring Equinox, the spring equinox is usually on March 20 or 21 in the Gregorian calendar.

Spring equinox day day and night is divided into 12 hours each, the spring equinox is also just spring (spring to summer) in three months, the equal division of the spring. It is said that "the spring and autumn equinoxes, day and night are equally divided", so the equinox is also known as "day in", "day and night". Begin to sweep the tomb and ancestor worship, also known as the spring festival. The old folk "spring equinox eat spring vegetables" custom, spring vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, also known as spring artemisia.　Jiangnan region is popular to treat the plowing oxen, the custom of sacrificing birds.

Tomb-sweeping at Ching Ming, ancestor worship, has a long history, and has become a custom.

Tomb-sweeping is also known as tomb-sacrificing, sweeping and grave-sweeping. Qingming tomb sweeping is because the hibernation, the spring equinox has passed, the ice and snow, grass and trees sprouting, people think of their ancestors grave Ying, there are foxes and rabbits through the holes, will not be due to the onset of the rainy season and collapse, so to the grave on the one hand to remove weeds, repair tree branches, add a few shovels of soil on the grave; on the other hand, to prepare some sacrifices, burn a few paper money, to the branches of the tree to hang some paper strips, a simple ceremony to express the deceased's The ancient Chinese festival of "Treading Green" was held on this day in ancient times. In ancient times, on this day, people gathered friends and relatives, brought along the old and the young, and went to the countryside to trek in the beautiful spring scenery. Before and after the Qingming Festival, there are also many traditional and colorful cultural and sports activities, such as tug-of-war, swinging, kite flying, playing polo, cockfighting and other activities.

The rainy season, which means "rain gives birth to hundreds of grains", is also known as the "rainy season".

Jiangnan region, commonly called peony flower as "Grain Rain Flower", which blossomed in the Grain Rain Festival, so there is a proverb of "watching peony in the Grain Rain Festival". Wherever there are flowers, women and gentlemen would visit and enjoy the flowers, which was called "Flower Fair". For the fishermen, the festival of Guyu is popular for the custom of sacrificing to the sea.　Southern Guyu tea picking custom, legend has it that Guyu tea this day will drink the fire, to ward off evil spirits, and so on. So no matter what the weather is, people will go to the tea mountain to pick some new tea to drink.

Summer

Old countryside with red beans, soybeans, black beans, green beans, green beans and other five-color beans mixed with white round-grained rice cooked into "five-color rice", after the evolution of the Japanese soybean meat boiled glutinous rice, vegetables with amaranth yellow fish soup, said to eat "summer rice". Eggs were boiled in black tea or walnut shells, called "Tachibana eggs," and given to each other. Weave egg sets with colorful threads and hang them on children's chests or tents. Children generally play the egg fight egg game, to crutch summer egg for the game, to the egg shell firm and not broken for the win, the proverb says: "summer chest hanging egg, the child is not Resistance to summer." Resistance to summer is a common summer abdominal anorexia, weakness and emaciation, children are particularly susceptible to resistance to summer. There are still five-color silk thread for children tied hand rope, called "summer rope".

Small full

Southern China has a "small full full river full" of folk proverbs, reflecting the region's rainfall, rainfall characteristics. The temperature is significantly higher, the amount of rain increases, after the rain, the temperature will drop sharply, so pay attention to add clothes, do not get cold and wind and cold. Xiaoman is the prone period of wet skin disease, so dietary regimen should be refreshing and light vegetarian diet, often eat foods that have the effect of clearing dampness and heat, such as azuki beans, mung beans, winter melon, cucumber, yellow cauliflower, watercress, black fungus, carrots, tomatoes and so on.

Mangseed, wheat and other awned crops ripe meaning. It is customary to offer candied flowers to the God of Flowers on Mangseo Day. The custom of cooking plums on the day of Mangseo was introduced in the Xia Dynasty. There are many ways to cook plums, a simple one is to cook with sugar and plums together or with sugar and sun-dried plums mixed evenly so that the plum juice leaching, but also with salt and plums together or with salt and sun-dried plums mixed evenly so that the plum juice leaching, the more sophisticated but also in the inside of the addition of people shiso. China's northern production of plums is very famous, and its licorice, hawthorn, rock sugar together to cook, will be made of summer delicacy - sour plum soup.

Summer solstice, which is not the hottest time of the year, although it has the longest days and the highest angle of the sun.

Summer Solstice is the earliest festival in China. Before the Qing Dynasty, the whole country took a day off from work on the summer solstice to go home and drink with relatives. In Guangdong, it is popular to say, "Summer solstice dog, no idyllic walk (nowhere to hide)." There is a local saying that eating dog meat on the summer solstice can get rid of evils, tonify the body, and ward off the plague. "Eat the dog on the summer solstice, the west wind bypassed," to the effect that as long as people eat dog meat on the day of the summer solstice, their bodies will be able to resist the invasion of the west wind and rain, less colds, good health. It is based on this good will, the achievement of the "summer solstice dog meat" this unique folk food culture.

Small summer, in the past the folk have "eat new" custom

that is, after the small summer taste new rice, farmers will be newly cut rice milled into rice, do a good job of rice for the gods of the five grains and ancestors, and then everyone ate to taste the new wine and so on. It is said that "eating new" is "eating Xin", the first Xin day after the summer festival. Cities usually buy a small amount of new rice to cook with the old rice, along with newly listed vegetables. Therefore, the folk have a small summer eating millet, summer eating grain said. Proverb: small summer eel race ginseng. Eel was born in the mud cave in the waterfront, before and after a month of summer eel is the most nourishing flavor. Summer is often chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases of the remission period, and eel is warm and sweet, has a tonic, tonic liver and spleen, in addition to rheumatism, strong bones and other roles. According to the winter disease summer supplement, small summer season is the most appropriate to eat is eel, eel protein content is high, iron content than carp yellowtail more than double, and contains a variety of minerals and vitamins, eel can also reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood, to prevent and control atherosclerosis caused by cardiovascular disease, on the accumulation of food does not eliminate the diarrhea caused by a better role.

The great summer, usually on July 22 or 23 in the Gregorian calendar.

Summer is the meaning of heat, the Great Summer is the hottest season of the year. Winter tonic three nine, summer tonic three volts. The nutrients of poultry meat are mainly protein, followed by fat, microorganisms and minerals, etc. Relative to livestock meat, it is a low-fat, high-protein food, and its proteins also belong to high-quality protein. Chicken, duck, pigeon and other poultry are the top choice for summer tonic. Taiwan folk proverb: eat pineapple in the summer, said the pineapple at this time of the year is the most delicious.

Autumn begins, usually on August 7 or 8 of the Gregorian calendar.

Autumn means the summer is gone and coolness comes, the beginning of autumn. In the Zhou Dynasty, on the day of Autumn, the Son of Heaven personally led the three dukes and nine ministers of the vassals to the western suburbs to welcome Autumn, and held a sacrificial ceremony. The Han Dynasty inherited this custom, and kill the beast to sacrifice, said the fall to Yangwu meaning. Folk have in the Autumn divination weather hot and cold customs. Proverbs: plant eggplants in the summer, eat eggplants in the fall. Autumn is a good time to eat eggplant. Folk custom the day before the fall to melon, steamed eggplant preserved, fragrant glutinous soup in the yard to dry one night, in the day of the fall to eat. After the bitter summer, most people have to lose a little weight. Autumn wind together, appetite, want to eat some good, increase a little nutrition, compensation to compensate for the loss of summer, the northern people called "autumn fat". Eat thick food delicacies, of course, the first choice to eat meat, "meat fat". It is said that eating melon in autumn can be exempted from the winter and the coming spring diarrhea. Autumn dryness is the main, careful to put autumn fat. Autumn, the weather is turning cooler, people tend to varying degrees of mouth, nose, skin and other parts of the dryness of the feeling, so we should eat some of the raw fluid and nourish the yin nourishing juicy food, eat less spicy, fried food. Autumn is advisable to eat moist sweet and sour and cold food, cold can clear heat, sweet food nature of nourishing and greasy, there is a slow, and in the middle, tonic effect, acidic food has astringent, fluid, quench thirst and so on. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that the relationship between the lungs and the autumn qi is very close, so you should eat a lot of lungs to promote the role of food, such as lily, lotus seed, yam, lotus root, flat mushrooms, tomatoes and so on.

The summer heat, around the folk will be celebrated in praise of the folkloric activities, commonly known as "for the half of the seventh month" or "in the Yuan Festival".

In the old days, from the beginning of July, there was a ceremony to open the ghost gate, until the end of the month to close the ghost gate, will be held Pudu Bushi activities. It is said that Pudu activities start from the opening of the ghost gate, and then put up the lanterns Penny, put the river lamps to invoke the lonely souls; and the main body is in the construction of the Pudu altar, set up the lonely shed, interspersed with robbing the lonely and other actions, and finally to close the ghost gate end. To this day, it has become a major event for ancestor worship. Folklore before and after the summer festival is mostly related to ancestor worship and the welcome of autumn.

White Dew is celebrated around September 7 on the Gregorian calendar every year.

The temperature begins to drop and the weather turns cooler. Yang qi is at its peak at the summer solstice, and yin qi rises at this time. By White Dew, the yin gas gradually aggravated, the morning dew with the increasingly thick, condensed into a layer of white droplets, so it is called White Dew.　White Dew season has been the beginning of the real cool season, many people in the body tonic emphasizes seafood meat and other nutrients tonic, but ignored the seasonal susceptibility to disease, to themselves and their families caused organic damage, in the White Dew season to avoid nasal diseases, asthma and bronchial disease. Usually should eat less or not eat fish and shrimp sea fishy, raw and cold sizzling braised pickles, spicy sour salty sweet and fat food.

Autumn equinox, time is generally September 22 or 23 each year.

The climate in the south is only beginning to fall from this festival.

According to the lunar calendar, "Autumn" is the beginning of autumn, to "frost" for the end of autumn, and the "Autumn Equinox" is exactly half of the 90-day period from the beginning of autumn to the frost. In the autumn equinox, many regions of China are held "erect eggs" folk activities. Autumn equinox has really entered into the fall, as the day and night time is equal to the festival, people in the health should also be in line with the law of balance of yin and yang, so that the body to maintain the principle of "yin and yang secret", in accordance with the "Su Wen? To the true to the great theory" said: "careful to observe the location of yin and yang, in order to level the period", yin and yang where there should be no bias. To maintain the balance of yin and yang in the body, the first thing to do is to prevent the invasion of external evil. At the same time, the autumn dryness of warm and cool changes, but also with each person's physical and organic response. To prevent cool dryness, we must insist on exercise, strengthen the body, improve the ability to resist disease. Autumn exercise, focusing on lung dry, such as practicing spit work, knocking teeth and throat dry work. Diet, should drink more water, eat clear, warm food, such as sesame, walnuts, glutinous rice, honey, dairy products, pears, etc., can play the role of nourishing yin moistening lungs, nourish yin and promote the role of fluids.

Cold dew season

Nanling and north of the vast areas have entered the fall, the northeast and northwest have entered or will soon enter the winter. In addition to the year-round snow on the Tibetan Plateau, the northeast and northern Xinjiang region has generally begun to snowfall. Cold dew diet should be based on a balanced diet of five flavors, according to the specific circumstances of individuals, appropriate more sweet, light moisturizing food, not only to supplement the spleen and stomach, but also to nourish the lungs and moisten the intestines, can be prevented and treated with dry throat and mouth dryness and other diseases. Fruits such as pears, persimmons, bananas, etc.; vegetables such as carrots, winter melon, lotus root, silver fungus, etc. and beans, mushrooms, kelp, seaweed and so on. Breakfast should eat warm food, the best drink hot medicine porridge, because round-grained rice, glutinous rice are excellent for strengthening the spleen and stomach, replenish the role of gas, like sugar cane porridge, bamboo porridge, salvia porridge, raw land porridge, yellow essence porridge and so on. Middle-aged and elderly people and chronic patients should eat more dates, lotus seeds, yam, duck, fish, meat and other foods.

The frosty season means that the weather is getting cold and frost is beginning to fall.

On October 23rd or 24th in the Gregorian calendar, when the sun is located in the yellow meridian 210 ° for frost, is the last season of autumn. Frost season, health care is particularly important, there is a folk proverb "a year to make up through, not as good as make up the frost", see the impact of this festival on us. Frost season is the peak of the recurrence of chronic gastritis and gastroduodenal ulcer disease. Elderly people are also very susceptible to "old cold legs" (osteoarthritis of the knee), chronic bronchitis is also easy to relapse or aggravation. This time should eat more pears, apples, white fruit, onions, mustard (potherb mustard). Chestnuts have the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the tendons, invigorating the blood, stopping bleeding, relieving coughs and resolving phlegm, and are a good tonic for this time of year. Frost all over the grass, trees, soil and stone, commonly known as frost, and after the frost covered vegetables such as spinach, winter melon, eat the flavor is particularly fresh, frosted fruits, such as grapes is very sweet. Ancient people generally fall tonic both eat mutton and rabbit meat.

Lidong, not only represents the arrival of winter

Completely speaking, the lid of winter is to indicate the beginning of winter, all things collection, return to avoid the meaning of cold.　Winter is the big festival of October, the Han Wei period, the day the son of the group of ministers to meet the winter weather, the martyrs who died for the country and their families to honor and compassion, please the dead to protect the living, to encourage the people to defend against the plundering and invasion of the foreign invasion or hunger, in the folk have ancestor worship, drinking feasts, divining the age of the custom to seasonal goodies to the ancestor of the spirits of the ritual to do the duty and responsibility of the human children and grandchildren, and pray for heaven to give the next year of abundance of years, the peasants themselves! The farmers themselves were also rewarded for drinking and resting. Although there is no human hibernation, but the folk have the custom of making up for the winter. In the south of China, people love to eat some chicken, duck, fish and meat in the winter, in Taiwan, the day of winter, the streets of the "mutton stove", 'ginger mother duck' and other winter tonic restaurant full of people. Many families also stewed sesame oil chicken, four things chicken to replenish energy.　In the north of China, especially in Beijing and Tianjin, people love to eat dumplings. Dumplings are derived from the saying "the time of the handover". The 30th day of the Lunar New Year is the intersection of the old year and the new year, and the beginning of winter is the intersection of the fall and winter seasons, so the dumplings at the time of the "handover" must be eaten.

Small snow, is to reflect the weather phenomena of the festival

Small snow, and no snow on the ground, which is the original meaning of the "small snow" this festival. After the snow, the temperature drops sharply and the weather becomes dry, making it a good time to process bacon. After the snowy season, some farmers start to make sausages and bacon, which can be enjoyed in the Spring Festival. Eating mochi, in some places in the south, there is also the custom of eating mochi in the tenth month of the lunar calendar. In ancient times, mochi was a traditional festival offering in the southern region, and was first used by farmers to offer sacrifices to the bull god. There is a saying, "October morning, mochi LuLu burning," which refers to the sacrificial event.

Daxue, is expressed in this period of heavy snowfall starting time and the degree of snow

It and snow, rain, rain and other festivals, are directly reflecting the precipitation of the festival. At this time, the north of our country suffers from more people with colds, such as serving some Daxue Shunan health soup, to resist the cold evil attack of the body surface, mouth and nose is very beneficial. Specific methods are as follows: First, in the snow three days before and after the You time (17-19 hours, the main kidney meridian time): consume the snow health soup. Specific methods are: 3 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, 250 grams of dog meat, 3 grams of upper cinnamon, decocted with water (can be put seasoning), the dog meat and soup a piece of serving. Dispel cold and nurture the kidneys. Second, from the point of view of Chinese medicine health science, snow has come to the "complementary" a good time. In the snow to the winter solstice period, you can eat the following foods: wolfberry shredded meat, fungus winter melon three fresh soup.

The winter solstice, the winter solstice was treated as a larger festival, there was a "winter solstice is as big as the year" said

And there are customs to celebrate the winter solstice. In the north, there is the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while in the south, there is the custom of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. Various regions also have the custom of sacrificing to the sky and ancestors on the winter solstice.

Small cold, generally in the calendar January 5 or 6

Small cold means the weather has been very cold. There is a folk proverb that says, "When it's cold, it's cold, it's cold". Literally seems to be cold in the small cold, in fact, in the meteorological records, the small cold period to be colder than the big cold, it is often said that "cold in the three nine, hot in the three volts", and "three nine days" in the small cold season, so that the small cold is the coldest season of the year. This season young people pay attention not to over-eat fat, sweet and spicy products and acne. When it comes to Little Cold, old Nanjing will usually cook vegetables and rice to eat, the content of vegetables and rice is not the same, but are vegetables and glutinous rice cooked together, very fragrant and delicious. Guangzhou tradition in the small cold morning to eat glutinous rice, in order to avoid too glutinous, generally 60% glutinous rice 40% fragrant rice.

Dahan is one of the twenty-four seasons, the last one

Every year around January 20 when the sun reaches 300 ° of yellow longitude for the big cold. It indicates that the weather is bitterly cold and the coldest period is coming. According to China's customs, especially in the countryside, every Dahan Festival, people will begin to be busy in the old and new, pickled food, and prepare New Year's goods. There are many important folk customs and festivals during the period from Dahan to Lichun. For example, the tailing festival, Zaosai and New Year's Eve, and sometimes even the Spring Festival, the biggest festival in China, is in this festival. The Dahan festival is full of joy and happy atmosphere, it is a cheerful and relaxed festival.