202 1 Date and time when the autumn solar term starts.
202 1 beginning of autumn is August 7th, 202 1, and it is Saturday, June 29th of the lunar calendar.
"beginning of autumn" is the thirteenth of the 24 solar terms. At this time, "the cool breeze comes, the dew is born, and the cicada is singing." "Autumn stands, lost." The ancients regarded "beginning of autumn" as an important moment at the turn of summer and autumn, also known as "July Festival". How to keep healthy after beginning of autumn?
Get enough sleep.
After the night in early autumn, you can obviously feel the cool breeze when you go out. Compared with the sultry summer some time ago, this kind of weather makes people feel very comfortable and the body is at a suitable temperature. Sleeping at night has also become much easier. In summer, we should pay more attention to sleep after beginning of autumn. It is impossible to stay up late and go to bed late. After beginning of autumn, the weather is getting colder and colder, so it is a good habit to go to bed early and get up early. As the temperature dropped, outdoor activities began to increase significantly. After a hard day's work, if you don't get enough quality sleep at night, you won't feel refreshed the next day anyway.
Tip: Pay attention to the time of sleep. Excessive sleep can also make people feel sleepy and weak.
Tonifying lung and preventing dryness
The climate in early autumn will become dry in the future. Although it is cool at night, the temperature is still high during the day. Therefore, according to the principle of "dryness means moistening dryness", we should eat more foods that nourish yin and moisten the lungs to prevent dryness, such as lotus seeds, lilies, tremella, pumpkins and loquat. If you have friends with weak spleen and stomach function and indigestion, you can eat more Poria, Euryale ferox, yam, millet, white lentils and so on.
bland diet
Autumn is suitable for eating more light and delicious meals, which can make people feel happy and forget fatigue, because greasy food will produce acidic substances in the body, making people more sleepy. In particular, don't eat spicy food to prevent getting angry. In addition, overeating will increase the burden on the stomach and lead to drowsiness.
Eat less spicy food.
Many people like to eat spicy food on weekdays, but people should remember to eat less after staying healthy in early autumn, because the weather will become very dry after beginning of autumn. If you eat spicy food at this time, your lungs will be damaged. Besides, at this time, the stomach is weak. Eating too much spicy food will stimulate the stomach and easily cause discomfort.
Prevent catching a cold
After beginning of autumn, the temperature difference between morning and evening is too large, which is easy to cause a cold. Pay attention to your daily diet, especially at night to prevent colds. When the weather is cool in the morning, you can often open the window to let the air circulate. Dressing should be cold and warm, and it should be frozen in spring and autumn. You can drink ginger tea in moderation to warm up. In summer, there are many air conditioners, many cold foods and people are cold. Ginger tea can drive away cold, warm the body and tonify the body.
Not so bitter
Health preservation in autumn should follow the principle of "moistening dryness and nourishing lung, nourishing yin and generating acid". Sour taste converges lung qi, pungent taste diverges and clears lung, so it should be harvested in autumn, so try to eat less spicy products such as onions and ginger, and eat more sour fruits and vegetables appropriately; When the air is dry in autumn, it is easy to hurt body fluids. Diet should nourish yin and moisten the lungs. 0 said: "Autumn is dry, you should eat hemp to moisten, and you can't drink cold food." . Therefore, it is suggested to eat more raw porridge, lotus lily soup and Sydney tremella soup in autumn, nourish yin and moisten dryness, strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and eat some soft foods such as sesame, glutinous rice, honey, loquat, pineapple and dairy products appropriately to regulate the function of the spleen and stomach, so as to lay a foundation for health in the middle and late autumn and even in winter.