How can the Mid-Autumn Festival really last?
Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion. When the family gets together, it is inevitable to eat and drink. Everyone should pay more attention to the diet of the Mid-Autumn Festival! Do you know how to stay healthy during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What should we pay attention to during the Mid-Autumn Festival? How to maintain health in the Mid-Autumn Festival should pay attention to the following points in maintaining the body: 1, body maintenance: drink plenty of water, go to bed early and get up early in autumn, the climate is dry, it is easy to feel thirsty, and skin moisture is easy to lose. Therefore, we should pay special attention to the supplement of water, drink plenty of water, eat more fruits containing gum and water, and avoid excessive exercise. Going to bed early and getting up early can reduce the probability of thrombosis and prevent cardiovascular diseases. 2, to prevent colds in autumn: should avoid too much food evaporation in early autumn, summer heat dropped from the peak, cold nights are hot, and the temperature difference between day and night changes greatly. Around 10, the summer heat gradually recedes, but in autumn, when tigers are in full swing, the weather is stuffy and hot. This kind of hot and cold weather is the easiest to catch a cold. 3. Please cultivate an optimistic mood, meditate on the joy of fruitful results, or judge the coolness of spring and autumn shown by the alternation of natural seasons with the eyes of philosophers, keep inner peace, save energy, and prepare for the hidden sun. 4. Food and nutrition: The climate is slightly cool in autumn, and there is a general lack of water in the air. Dietary nutrition should prevent dryness, nourish kidney and moisten lung. In diet, a small amount of spicy food such as pepper, onion, leek and garlic should be matched with soft food such as sesame, glutinous rice, honey, sugarcane, spinach, tremella, pear, duck and dairy products. As for the elderly, you can also eat more rice porridge to benefit your stomach and produce fluid. Mid-Autumn Festival health food 1. Taste green tea, taste moon cakes, eat sweet moon cakes and drink scented tea, which is sweet and delicious; It is best to eat salty moon cakes and drink oolong tea or green tea, which will refresh you. Strong tea and coffee contain high caffeine, while soda, cola or fruit juice contain a lot of calories and sugar, so eating with moon cakes is unhealthy and greasy. Second, suck snails and drink beer. People in Guangzhou like to eat snails while enjoying the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that it has the effect of "improving eyesight". Therefore, many people in Guangzhou like to invite friends, or people they like, to sit around and enjoy the moon while chatting and sucking snails. When they eat, they have a heart-to-heart talk with two or three bottles of beer, and talk about the fun of life, which has a unique flavor. Third, sour fruit with seasonal fruit moon cakes is also exquisite. You can choose orange, sour and vitamin C-rich varieties, such as kiwi fruit, guava, orange, watermelon and banana. These fruits can play an antioxidant role in the metabolism of high-fat and high-protein substances, thus protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. However, peaches, plums, apricots, pears, apples and other fruits contain too much sugar, and durian contains high protein and calories, so you should eat less. Boiling water chestnut porridge to relieve greasy water chestnut is also one of the traditional foods in Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that eating water chestnut can make children grow smart and profitable. Most water chestnuts are cooked with water (or salt water) and peeled as snacks; You can also cook shelled water chestnut and rice together to make salty rice congee. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes and drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge, the greasy stomach was removed on the spot. Boiled taro dipped in sugar to eat five, grapefruit with moon cakes is a traditional food of Mid-Autumn Festival, which can be said to be "essential". Because "pomelo" and "you" are homophonic, which means may the moon bless. Eating sweet moon cakes first, and then eating sweet and sour grapefruit can not only stimulate appetite, but also relieve greasy feeling and make the mouth feel fresh. When eating grapefruit in Mid-Autumn Festival, peel off the green skin of grapefruit, and then peel off the white inner membrane of grapefruit, so that the meat can be eaten when it is cooked. Sun-dried grapefruit skin can become a natural mosquito-repellent incense! The use method is the same as that of ordinary mosquito-repellent incense, which is pure natural. What to eat in Mid-Autumn Festival? It is an essential dish for Jiangsu and Zhejiang people to enjoy the moon. One for each person, served with ginger vinegar, is the best way to kill time. However, hairy crabs are cool. After eating, warm your stomach with yellow wine and drink a cup of ginger tea, which is good for your health. The most traditional delicious snails in Mid-Autumn Festival are recorded in Shunde County Records in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, eating snails is still delicious." People believe that snails can improve their eyesight in the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve your eyesight, which makes sense. But why must the Mid-Autumn Festival be particularly keen on food? Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snail was empty, but there was no snail in the belly. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The most auspicious holiday delicacies, glutinous rice lotus root, eat lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival, which means reunion. Fill lotus root with glutinous rice, and then pour osmanthus honey. Rice fragrance, lotus root fragrance and osmanthus fragrance make the reunion dinner start from sweetness. Osmanthus duck should be listed in Gui Xiang, fat but not greasy, delicious. After drinking sugar taro, you must pour cinnamon pulp, which goes without saying. Sichuanese not only eat moon cakes, but also shoot and kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, candied cakes and so on. Next, let's take a look at other special foods of Mid-Autumn Festival! Osmanthus fragrans Wine Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at osmanthus fragrans in the middle of the month, smell osmanthus fragrans and drink a cup of osmanthus fragrans wine to celebrate the sweetness of the family, which has become a wonderful enjoyment in the festival. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are some poems, such as "supporting the horse and fighting, drinking cinnamon pulp" and "drinking cinnamon pulp". It can be seen that China has been drinking osmanthus wine for quite a long time. Pumpkin Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River. The rich eat moon cakes, while the poor have the custom of eating pumpkins. Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with elderly parents and only one daughter named Huanghua, who was beautiful, intelligent, kind and hardworking. On August 15, Huanghua found two oblate wild melons among the weeds in Nanshan. She picked it up and cooked it for her parents. Parents' appetite has greatly increased and their health has improved. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, bearing many round melons. Because it was picked from Nanshan, it was called pumpkin. Since then, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half every year on August 15th. Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not to believe in evil spirits. Chaozhou Official Records written before the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and peeling taro to eat is called peeling ghosts." Stripping ghosts and eating ghosts is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.