Liqiu, the 13th of the 24 solar terms, is celebrated around August 8 every year when the sun reaches 135° of the yellow meridian.In 2013, the time of Liqiu is 16:20 on August 7, 2013.

"Autumn" means the beginning of autumn.

"Autumn" means that the summer heat goes away and the coolness comes, implying the beginning of fall. At the beginning of autumn, the sycamore tree must begin to lose its leaves, hence the idiom "to fall a leaf and know autumn". Autumn includes six seasons: Autumn, Summer, White Dew, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, and Frost, which are transitional seasons from hot to cool, and then from cool to cold.

According to the "Monthly Seventy-two Waiting Collection": "Autumn, seize also, things in this and seize convergence also". Autumn is not only a sign of the hot summer is about to pass, autumn is coming. It also indicates that the grass and trees begin to bear fruit and produce children, and the harvest season has arrived. The ancients took the autumn as an important moment of the summer and autumn, has been very important to this festival.

First, how to maintain health in the autumn season

The climate in the autumn is from hot to cool transition season, but also the gradual collection of yang, yin gas is gradually long, from the yang gradually transformed into a period of yin-sheng, is the season of all things mature harvest, but also the human body metabolism of yin and yang Yang elimination yin and yin long transition period. Therefore, the fall health, where the spirit of the mood, diet, exercise, exercise, are to support the principle of harvest.

Autumn should be in the lungs, the lungs in the will of the sad (worry), sadness and worry easy to hurt the lungs, lung gas is weak, the body's tolerance for bad *** decreased, easy to have sad emotions, so in the self-conditioning must not deviate from the laws of nature, according to the outline of the ancients, "so that the Zhi tranquility to slow down the punishment of the autumn, astringent gas, so that the autumn Qi Ping; no outside of the Zhi, so that the lungs are clear, the fall this should be, and the way to feed the harvest". The way to raise the income is also".

1, eat more sour fruits and vegetables

"Suwen? Organic gas method of time theory" said: "the lungs of the autumn ...... lung convergence, emergency food acid to collect, with acid complementary, Xin Diarrhea". Visible acid convergence of lung gas, Xin flavor dispersal diarrhea lungs, the fall should be collected should not be scattered, so we should try to eat less onions, ginger and other spicy products, appropriate more acidic fruits and vegetables.

So, what belongs to the acidic food? Experts say, in the fruit contains the most types of acidic substances when the hawthorn, it has *** gastrointestinal secretion of various digestive enzymes, to help digestion, to prevent the accumulation of fat, the role of delayed aging. Grapes contain a lot of gluconic acid, citric acid, malic acid, etc., which functions as a thirst quencher, appetizer and food eliminator, as well as nourishing and strengthening, blood tonic, cardiac, diuretic effect. In addition, pomelo, pomegranate is also commonly eaten in the fall sour fruit. Pomelo has the role of eliminating human fatigue; and pomegranate can kill insects, astringent, astringent intestines, dysentery.

2, pay attention to prevent dryness

Autumn is the beginning of autumn, people enjoy the autumn high at the same time, do not forget that it also brings the main seasonal gas - dry. Autumn dryness on the human body will have what effect, specifically how to deal with it?