Why does beginning of autumn eat roast suckling pig?

Folks are known as "insisting on autumn fertilizer". People have a bad appetite in dog days, so many people will lose weight. In the Qing Dynasty, it was popular among the people to weigh people by hanging scales in early autumn. Of course, most of them were children, and compared with their weight in long summer to test whether they were fat or thin. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, if you lose weight, you need to make up. The way to make up for it is to go to beginning of autumn, eat delicious food, and "paste the autumn fat". Of course, meat is the first choice, and "stick fat with meat". On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, while cultured people eat boiled meat and braised pork, as well as jiaozi, stewed chicken, stewed duck and braised fish.

It turns out that people's attention to solar terms in the past was mostly related to diet and disease prevention, which was not unrelated to people's concern for their own health. "Food is the most important thing for the people". Beginning of autumn is a very important solar term, and people certainly can't forget to eat it. Therefore, it is deeply loved by the people in Beijing and Hebei.

In addition to beginning of autumn's "sticking autumn fertilizer", Tianjin and other places are also popular with "biting autumn". People believe that eating melons in early autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Customs of Tianjin Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea by eating melons and biting autumn." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed eggplants and fragrant soup in the yard the day before in beginning of autumn, and ate them in beginning of autumn to remove the heat in summer and avoid dysentery. Beginning of autumn mainly moistens dryness, so be careful to stick autumn fertilizer. In autumn, the weather gradually turns cold, and people often feel that the mouth, nose, skin and other parts have different degrees of dryness. Therefore, they should eat some nutritious, nourishing and juicy food, and eat less spicy and fried food. It is advisable to eat moist, sweet and cold food in autumn. Cold can clear away heat. Sweet food is greasy, which has the functions of urgency, harmony and tonic. Sour food has the functions of astringing, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. At the same time, Chinese medicine believes that the relationship between lung and autumn qi is very close, so we should eat more foods that can moisten lung and promote fluid production, such as lily, lotus seed, yam, lotus root, Pleurotus ostreatus and tomato. From this point of view, after beginning of autumn, we should pay special attention to regular and quantitative diet, moistening dryness and keeping fit.