Besides admiring the chrysanthemums, don’t forget to eat flower cakes and drink chrysanthemum wine.

Original title: besides admiring chrysanthemums, don’t forget to eat flower cakes and drink chrysanthemum wine

Today is the last day of the National Day festival and the cold dew in the twenty-four solar terms. When the cold dew, fall gets stronger and the temperature is cool, people will go out to enjoy the leaves and climb high. Also, this season is similar to the Double Ninth Festival. Many Chongyang food customs, such as eating flower cakes, have become the diet of the Hanlu solar term.

　　Yi Deng Gao appreciating the chrysanthemum

Regarding the solar terms of cold dew, the “Monthly Collection Order Seventy-two Seasons” records: “September Festival, the dew is cold and will condense”, which means that the temperature of the cold dew is lower than that of the white dew, and the dew on the ground will condense into frost.

Cold dew means that the weather will turn from cool to cold, and changes in the weather will affect phenological changes during this period. This is the third phase of the cold dew: the first phase of the swan goose, the second phase of the bird enters the water like clams, and the third phase of the chrysanthemum begins to bloom. Hongyan Laibin refers to the group of red geese arranged in a “one” or “person” shape to move south. Clams enter the water to become clams. It means that in ancient times it was cold in the deep autumn and the birds disappeared. People at that time saw many clams suddenly appear on the beach,shellThe stripes are similar to those of birds, so they mistakenly thought that birds turned into clams. The beginning of the Huanghua chrysanthemum means that the chrysanthemum is generally open during the cold dew season.

In the cold season, autumn gets stronger and the weather is cool, suitable for going out. The Chongyang Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, a traditional festival in China, is often found in this solar term. That is why there is also the custom of inviting family and friends and looking into the distance in the cold season. And this is also the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, it is time to appreciate chrysanthemums.

　　Flower cakes, sesame seeds … What did you eat on the Hanlu diet?

When the weather turns chilly with cold dew, people also pay attention to their diet.Let’s take a look at the dietary customs of this solar term?

　　sesame

During the cold dew, the weather changed from cool to cold. Traditional Chinese medicine teaches “Yang Yang in spring and summer, Yin in autumn and winter”, and believes that at this time, Yin should be nourished to avoid dryness, lungs and stomach, and there is a popular custom of “eating sesame with cold dew “. There are many popular sesame diets, with sesame crunch, sesame mung bean cake, and sesame sesame cookies especially popular.

　　Flower cake

The cold dew often overlaps with the Double Ninth Festival. Chongyang’s delicate flower cake has also become a representative Hanlu diet. Huaguo is called “Chongyang Flower Cake” because of the namesake of “cake” and “tall”.BackgammonRise”.

　　Chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemums bloom during cold dew and there is a custom to drink “chrysanthemum wine” in many areas. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemums, glutinous rice, and distillery’s yeast. In ancient times it was called “wine of longevity”. It has a fresh and sweet taste. Ancient books also record: “It collects chrysanthemums, fuling and pine resin for a long time, making it immortal.”

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