1 Eat radish

During the autumnal equinox, you can eat more fruits and vegetables that are pungent, sour, sweet or have the effect of lowering lung qi, especially white radish and carrots. According to traditional Chinese medicine, radish must be divided into raw and cooked. Raw radish tastes pungent, sweet, and cool in nature; cooked radish tastes sweet, has a neutral nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians.

Eating radish in its fresh state has good therapeutic and health effects. Even if it is dried, it is a universal medicine. Dried radish still contains a large amount of vitamin B1, calcium and iron, which can supplement dietary fiber and minerals for the human body. Eating it raw can clear away heat and promote fluid production, cool blood and stop bleeding, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; while cooking it can benefit the spleen and stomach, digestion and reduce qi.

Recommendation: People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat raw radish, but can eat it cooked. It can cure spleen and stomach disharmony, abdominal pain and distension, dysentery or diarrhea, indigestion, nausea and vomiting.

2 Eat duck meat

As the temperature drops during the autumnal equinox, many people have an increased appetite and prefer to eat meat. Experts said: "Excessive consumption of meat is not good, but from a nutritional point of view, giving up meat is not a way to maintain health. A balanced diet is what we advocate." Meat has different tastes and nutrients, and is suitable for different groups of people, so it should be based on Choose the most suitable meat according to your physique and climate.

Ducks are rich in nutrients. They not only enjoy the reputation of "the most delicious delicacies in the capital, but ducks" and "no dinner is complete without ducks". Especially when new ducks are raised in autumn, their meat is tender, plump and nutritious. It can promptly replenish the protein, vitamins and minerals necessary for the human body. At the same time, duck meat is cold in nature and is especially suitable for people suffering from body heat and internal heat. Therefore, duck is the first choice for autumn diet therapy.

The hot season is the best time to eat duck. In comparison, other meats such as pork, beef, and sheep are slightly inferior. Duck meat has the healthiest fat. Duck meat is rich in B vitamins and vitamin E. Its fatty acids are mainly unsaturated fatty acids and low-carbon saturated fatty acids, which are easy to digest.

3 Eating Autumn Vegetables

In the Lingnan area, people with the surname Xie in Cangcheng Town, Kaiping, which used to be the fourth town (now with Heshan as the fifth town), have an unruly custom called " Eat autumn vegetables at the autumnal equinox." "Qiucai" is a kind of wild amaranth, which the locals call "Qiubi Artemisia". On the day of the autumnal equinox, the whole village goes to pick autumn vegetables. When searching in the fields, most of them are green and thin, about as long as a palm. The harvested autumn vegetables are usually boiled in soup with fish fillets at home, which is called "autumn soup". There is a jingle that goes: "Autumn soup fills the internal organs and cleanses the liver and intestines. The whole family, old and young, is safe and healthy." Since autumn, people pray for peace in their homes and health.

Wild amaranth contains a variety of nutrients. Rich carotene and vitamin C help enhance the body's immune function and improve the body's anti-cancer effect. Stir-fried wild amaranth has the effects of detoxifying, diuretic, analgesic, and improving eyesight. Eating it can enhance the ability to resist and prevent diseases, keep you healthy and prevent diseases, and moisturize and beautify your skin. It is suitable for diseases such as dysentery, red eyes, sparrow blindness, mastitis, and hemorrhoids.

4. Cook glutinous rice balls

On the day of the autumnal equinox, farmers have a holiday according to custom. Every family must eat glutinous rice balls, and they must make more than ten or twenty or thirty glutinous rice balls without fillings. Once each is cooked, use a thin bamboo fork to cut it and place it on the ridge of the outdoor field. It is called sticky bird's mouth. Boil more than ten solid glutinous rice balls and put them on a plate to dry. Bamboo with leaves was cut from the bamboo forest. Children from each family poked glutinous rice balls on the top of the bamboo poles, carried them to the ground, and inserted them one by one on the ridge of their own fields. I hope that the glutinous rice dumplings will stick to the mouths of the birds that steal food, so that they will learn a lesson and never dare to come again in the future.