Introduction of Cold Dew Traditional Food

Cold dew is the seventeenth of the twenty-four solar terms. At this time, the weather is not as cool as autumn, but colder than winter. The following is the introduction of traditional cold dew food, welcome to read.

1: crab

The custom of cold dew in old Nanjing is to eat crabs and wrap summer clothes. There is also a saying that "the cold dew makes the feet, the frost catches the feet first, the west wind blows, and the crab's feet itch". As soon as the crab is cold, it will be "positive". "September navel ball, October tip", at present, female crabs are full of eggs and rich in yellow paste, which is the best season to eat female crabs. After October of the lunar calendar, it is the male crab's turn to eat best.

Steamed crabs are the most nutritious! Hold the two sides of the big cover at the root of the two rows of crab legs with your hands, and then brush everything you can with a toothbrush. Brush as clean as possible before putting it into the container; Then put Jiang Mo into a small wine bowl, add cooked soy sauce, sugar, monosodium glutamate, yellow wine and sesame oil and stir. Take another small bowl and put vinegar for later use; Finally, cage the crabs, steam them on high fire 15 to 20 minutes, and take them out when the crab shells are bright red.

2: Flower cake

Because the weather is getting colder and colder, flowers and trees will soon die, so people call this "resignation." 1999 Climbing a mountain, you still have to eat flower cakes. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, we should eat cakes instead of "climbing mountains". I hope you or your relatives and friends can be safe, auspicious and aloof.

The raw materials for making flower cakes are divided into leather (refined flour, oil and water), crisp (condensed milk and oil) and stuffing (jujube paste, peanut kernel, raisin, green pepper, black sesame, cooked rice flour, ground sesame oil, honey, osmanthus, etc. ). After dough mixing, pastry making and stuffing, the green cake is made into two pieces with various nuts in the middle.

3: Persimmon

There is a folk proverb, "beginning of autumn walnut white dew pear, cold dew persimmon red skin." Soft and waxy persimmons will not mature until autumn. They are sweet and astringent, cold in nature, enter the lungs, spleen and stomach, and clear away heat and moisten the lungs. It contains one to two times as much vitamins and sugar as ordinary fruit. It can moisten the lungs and protect the stomach, clear away dry fire, and often eat it to tonify deficiency and relieve cough, benefit the intestines and clear heat.

Eating persimmon on an empty stomach is easy to get stomach persimmon stone disease. It is best to eat it after meals and try to eat less persimmon skin. At the same time, we should also control our food intake. Not suitable for eating vegetables and other foods with more cellulose. People suffering from chronic gastritis, dyspepsia and other low gastric function, subtotal gastrectomy and diabetes are not suitable for eating.

4: Sesame

When the cold dew comes, the weather turns from cold to cold. According to the theory of "nourishing yang in spring and summer, nourishing yin in autumn and winter" in traditional Chinese medicine. At this time, people should nourish yin and prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach. As a result, people have the custom of "eating sesame seeds in cold dew". In Beijing, sesame-related foods have become popular before and after the cold dew, such as sesame crisp, sesame mung bean cake, sesame seed cake and so on.

Sesame paste boiled with black sesame seeds, plus some rock sugar, can be drunk once every morning and evening, which can effectively reduce the irritation to the lungs, moisturize the respiratory tract, eliminate sputum attached to the respiratory tract wall, and make it quickly moisten the lungs and relieve cough, even breathing feels very smooth. People who cough in autumn might as well try this recipe.

5. Chrysanthemum wine

Cold dew is near the Double Ninth Festival. At this time, chrysanthemums are in full bloom. In order to get rid of autumn dryness, some areas have the custom of drinking "chrysanthemum wine". This custom, together with climbing, gradually moved to the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemum, glutinous rice and distiller's yeast, which was called "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its taste is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing liver and improving eyesight, strengthening brain and delaying aging.

At present, chrysanthemum wine generally uses 2000 grams of chrysanthemum, 500 grams of medlar, 500 grams of angelica, and 0/000 grams of rehmannia glutinosa/kloc, which are decocted with appropriate amount of water and filtered with gauze for later use. Wash 3000 grams of glutinous rice, add water, stir-fry until half cooked, drain water, mix with chrysanthemum juice, steam, add a proper amount of distiller's yeast, put it in a crock, package and ferment until sweet.

Summary: It may still be autumn in Nanling when it is cold and dew, but first frost can already be seen in Beijing. This season, you can eat some sweets that can nourish your body, keep healthy and replenish your spleen and stomach.

How to keep healthy in cold dew solar terms

Refuse to fail

During the cold dew, you must adjust your sleep time and try to keep enough sleep. In addition, after work, you can also carry out appropriate sports activities, such as mountaineering, walking, cycling, etc., which are very good choices, and you can gradually increase the amount of exercise when exercising.

Rejecting the lack of autumn can also be coordinated in diet: eat more foods rich in vitamins, such as carrots, lotus roots, pears, honey, sesame seeds, fungus and so on; Eat more foods containing potassium.

Reject autumn dryness

Autumn in Beijing is very dry, so I suggest you don't take a bath too often. Patients with psoriasis and other skin diseases should pay more attention to not taking a bath for more than half an hour at a time. It is not suitable to bathe with alkaline soap, and baby skin care products with less irritation should be chosen.

Rejecting autumn dryness also needs to pay attention to hydrating at any time. It is best to insist on drinking 7 to 8 cups of warm water every day, but also pay attention to diet control, and try to eat more foods suitable for nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, preventing dryness and protecting yin.

In addition, keep a good mood. Laughing often can not only maintain lung qi, but also eliminate depression, fatigue, chest tightness and restore physical strength.

Refuse autumn fertilizer

In the past, when living conditions were bad, people often "gained weight in autumn" to store heat for the coming winter. With the improvement of living standards, many people are overnourished. So pay attention to a balanced diet in autumn. It is suggested to eat some low-calorie foods, such as adzuki bean, radish, coix seed, celery, etc., and increase activities in a planned way. Autumn is a good time to travel, which can not only make you feel comfortable, but also increase the activity and achieve the goal of losing weight.