How much do you know about the custom of eating crabs, climbing mountains and enjoying autumn scenery？

　　Beijing, Oct. 8 (Reporter Shangguan Yun) "Everyone is busy during the cold dew season, planting wheat, picking flowers and playing bean fields." With the autumn wind blowing hard, the cold dew came. This is a solar term representing climate change, and it is also a time when people are busy harvesting.

　　Many customs of the cold dew solar terms are similar to those of the Double Ninth Festival, such as enjoying chrysanthemums and climbing mountains. Compared with the vitality of summer, late autumn is somewhat bleak, but people climb high and look at the autumn scenery, which also represents a love for nature and a positive attitude towards life.

　　Dew gas is cold and will condense.

　　Cold dew is the seventeenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms and the fifth solar term in autumn. It usually falls on October 7-9 of the Gregorian calendar every year.

Data Map: During the "Cold Dew" season, the autumn colors in Suzhou Classical Garden Humble Administrator’s Garden are fresh and pleasant, and tourists stroll in the garden to feel the unique charm of autumn scenery. Wang Sizhe

　　"twenty-four solar term" said: "In September, the dew is cold and will condense." It means that the temperature of cold dew is lower than that of white dew, and the morning dew on the ground is so cold that it is about to condense.

　　Cold dew is a festival in late autumn, which reflects climate change. Compared with the white dew, it also has a word "dew" in its name, but the white dew means the transition from hot to cool, and the cold dew is the turning point from cool to cold.

　　As the saying goes, "the white dew is not exposed, and the cold dew is not exposed." After the arrival of the cold dew solar term, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer, and the cold is getting worse. Especially in the morning or at night, people often feel a little cold and the air becomes drier.

　　Eating in cold dew: eating crabs and drinking cold dew tea.

　　There are not many customs of cold dew solar terms. Autumn is deep, but it is the time to eat crabs. "September is the navel, October is the tip." Cold dew is the best season to eat female crabs, but crabs should not be eaten more.

　　In some places, there is the habit of drinking "cold dew tea". It is said that cold dew tea has a unique sweet and fragrant taste, which is quite popular with old tea drinkers.

Data map: Cold dew solar terms Nanjing Gaochun farmland is busy harvesting, and the harvest season is here. Photo by Gao Xiaoping

　　The weather changes from cool to cold in cold dew, so people should pay attention to prevent autumn dryness. Therefore, there is also a custom of "eating sesame seeds in cold dew" among the people, and there is a proverb that "sesame and mung bean cakes are not long enough to eat".

　　There are also articles saying that on the day of cold dew, the ancients sometimes took water from wells to make pills or medicinal liquor for nourishing the five internal organs.

　　It is worth noting that the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also called the Chrysanthemum Month, at which time chrysanthemums are basically open. Therefore, climbing the mountain and enjoying chrysanthemums are called a great event in the cold dew season.

　　To prevent autumn dryness, the diet should moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach

　　In the past, in people’s cognition, after the arrival of cold dew, in nature, the qi of yin and yang began to change, the yang gradually faded, and the yin gradually emerged. Therefore, people’s living habits should also be adjusted to adapt to the weather changes.

Data Map: In the cold dew solar terms of the twenty-four solar terms, there is an ice hanging landscape in the tourist scenic spot of Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Gansu Province. Photo by Wu Xuefeng

　　For example, there is a saying about health preservation that "Yang is nourished in spring and summer, and Yin is nourished in autumn and winter". In autumn, the weather is dry. On the basis of paying attention to the balance of diet and daily life, people should nourish yin to prevent dryness, moisten the lungs and benefit the stomach.

　　At this time, you can eat less spicy, stimulating, smoked and roasted foods, and you should eat some foods such as tremella, radish, tomato, lotus root and lily that have the effect of benefiting the stomach and promoting fluid production. Vegetables can eat carrots, wax gourd, or kelp, seaweed and so on.

　　"An autumn rain and a cold", we should gradually add clothes as the weather turns cold, but not too much or too fast. Moreover, diarrhea occurs frequently in autumn, so it is necessary to prevent overeating and pay special attention to keeping the abdomen warm.