The story of beginning of autumn eating watermelon.

What does beginning of autumn say about eating watermelon?

According to legend, one year in the Ming Dynasty, many people in Nanjing suffered from dysentery and sores. Some people followed the example of Cui Xianggong's daughter in Luzhou to eat melons to make "dysentery" heal itself. As a result, a custom gradually formed. In Qiu Lai, every household has to cut watermelons every year, which is called "eating autumn".

In addition, watermelons were first introduced to the Central Plains from the Western Regions in the Song Dynasty, and the picking period of watermelons in the Western Regions was around beginning of autumn, so it was an early adopter for beginning of autumn to eat watermelons. According to "Baner Qiuyuzhai Essay", women in the western regions choose to touch melons in the fields at the beginning of autumn night, which is called "touching autumn". It may be related to the shape of watermelon like a pregnant woman's stomach. Melon has a son, which symbolizes having a son. In the custom of China, "melon" is always closely related to reproduction.

It is said that ripe melons can be touched in autumn, which indicates that girls can find good husbands and women can have more sons. In order to ensure a good touch of melons, melons are generally placed in a certain position during the day and women are allowed to "touch" at night. At this time, "touching the autumn" is like a divination activity. With the expansion of watermelon planting, people in the city began to eat watermelon in early autumn. Today, northerners still call beginning of autumn eating melons "touching the autumn".

How many watermelons should I eat the day after beginning of autumn?

It is recommended to eat about 100- 150g a day.

Watermelon is a kind of fruit with high nutritional value, which contains a lot of vitamins, protein, cellulose, sugar and various minerals. Proper consumption has certain effects of clearing away heat, quenching thirst, diuresis and improving human immunity, which is beneficial to human health.

However, in view of the fact that the weather will gradually turn cold after beginning of autumn, and excessive consumption will easily increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, beginning of autumn suggested eating about100-150g of watermelon every day.

What are the benefits of eating watermelon?

1, enhancing immunity

Watermelon is rich in lycopene. As a super antioxidant, lycopene can protect human cells from free radicals and enhance the function of human immune system. In addition, watermelon is rich in nutrients, including vitamin C, potassium and fiber, which can effectively reduce the incidence of cancer, especially lung cancer and colon cancer.

Step 2 clear away heat and relieve summer heat

Because watermelon contains a lot of water. Therefore, eating watermelon in summer can play a good role in clearing away heat and relieving summer heat. When you have acute fever, thirst, sweating and irritability, eating a piece of watermelon will improve your symptoms.

3, diuretic laxative

Because watermelon contains more water, it will increase the number of urination. For people with long-term constipation, breaking the hard skin of watermelon into juice and adding a little honey can play a good laxative role.

4. Beautiful and beautiful

Because watermelon is rich in nutrition, it can help the skin supplement nutrition. Fresh watermelon juice and fresh watermelon peel can enhance skin elasticity, reduce wrinkles and increase luster.

Who should eat less watermelon?

1, people with renal insufficiency

Its water regulation ability is low, too much water enters the body, which can not regulate excretion, and edema of lower limbs or whole body will occur. The water content of watermelon is nearly 95%. Eating watermelon regularly will not only aggravate edema, but also easily induce acute heart failure.

2. People with stomach deficiency and fear of cold

Watermelon is a cold food. Eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, leading to poor appetite, indigestion, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

3. Diabetic patients

The sugar content of watermelon is about 5%, so diabetics should not eat more. Especially don't eat after meals, which will easily increase the burden on the pancreas.

4. Very old people

When people are old, most of them have the problems of spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and poor heart and kidney function. Eating too much watermelon is easy to damage the spleen and stomach.