1, Chrysanthemum wine on Chrysanthemum Day
Chrysanthemum must drink wine, wine and jiu jiu and jiu jiu are homophonic, in the Chinese custom inside a special commemorative significance, and therefore derived in the nine nine nine Chrysanthemum Day drinking custom, September is the chrysanthemum bloomed in full bloom, it is the drinking chrysanthemum wine season, so in the Chrysanthemum Day must drink chrysanthemum wine.
Significance: prolonging life and immortality.
2, Chung Yeung Festival eat lamb noodles
Number nine in Taoism indicates Yang, September nine is double nine, it is named Chung Yeung, and Yang and sheep homophonic, so in the Chung Yeung Festival to eat sheep, lamb is warm, in the winter there is a role in the cold to keep warm.
Autumn is the fattest period for sheep, and Chongyang also brings a little bit of winter cold, which is a good time to eat sheep to protect against cold and prevent colds.
3, Chrysanthemum Festival eat flower cake
Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Festival of the heights, meaning the heights to avoid disaster, but also the meaning of the heights to think of their relatives, the "cake" and the high homophonic, and step by step the meaning of the highs, on behalf of the good luck and the good wishes.
4, Chung Yeung Festival to eat rice fruit
"I was surprised to hear that the festival near Chung Yeung Festival, the delicate hand with a basket to pick up the wild fragrance. The mortar and pestle pounded into green powder wet, the pearl of the call Lang taste". Since modern times, people have been converted into a very unique nine heavy rice fruit. Translucent body, sweet and soft to eat, and not sticky teeth, can be called the best gift food to honor the elderly Chung Yeung.
5, Chongyang Festival drink tea
Chongyang Festival is a festival of remembrance of loved ones, but also a festival of celebration, but also a festival to eat, this day will certainly eat a lot of many delicious delicacies, drink this Chongyang Festival and tea, tea, healthy, green, digestive, but also to filter the intestines.
6, the elderly dietary taboos
The diet of the elderly is not the same as young people, the elderly have to eat carefully, not just eat light, easy to digest food. More importantly, the elderly in a meal, what to eat first, what to eat after, these will also affect their appetite. So exactly how should the elderly choose the correct order of meals?
1. Eat some fresh vegetables or soy products first. For example, stir-fried cabbage, spinach, cold cucumber, shredded tofu and so on. These dishes are relatively light and will not affect digestion after eating, but instead, due to the lightness, more appetite.
2. And then eat some slightly heavier flavor stews and stir-fries. For example, kung pao chicken, ma po tofu, fish and meat, etc.. As you start to eat light, this is the time to eat something with heavy flavor, more to increase appetite.
3. Then comes the staple food. Grains and cereals contain a variety of nutrients, is the body's essential food, every meal should be appropriate intake. Elderly people should not eat too much, too much to increase the feeling of satiety, not good for the stomach and intestines.
4. The last to some dessert (such as sweet soup, snacks, etc.) as the table spice. They are placed at the end of eating, one can play a refreshing effect, the second can help appetizing. But desserts should not eat too much, appropriate a few mouthfuls on the good, be sure to let the stomach to leave a little "space" to. The above order of eating can not only let the old people eat a little more, eat a little more flavor, more can let our elderly friends eat healthy.