24 solar terms: lu when nourish "Yin"

(Gregorian calendar September 7 ~ 9,)

To be a swan goose XuanDiao flock of shame

【 appropriate 】 nourish "Yin"

【 avoid 】 gluttony cold cool, through in revealing clothes

Lu, namely white dewdrop. According to law for, five lines of Yin and Yang in five lines of autumn in gold, its color is white, so white is mainly refers to fall; Dew is refers to is "Yin qi gradually heavy, dew to coagulate and white", it is to point to fall at this time in the morning, Yin qi gradually increasing in the side of the road we can see on the leaf dew.

Lu throttle has three main representative phenomenon, it is respectively: swan goose, XuanDiao return, to a flock of shame. That is now the collective head further south, the swallow wild geese spring autumn, with birds to raise shame what mean? First, a look at what group of words, the ancients three or more called "the", three more than beast called "group of", in the later use were no one another, collectively referred to as "people". Shame what mean? Shame for food that the meaning of a flock of shame, that is to say, this time, many birds are storing food for winter use. The ancient ceremonies.from "said:" the shame of beauty. Keep the food, the hidden shame for the clear a ". From health Angle is qiu dong nourish "Yin".

Another says the proverb "lu day, night cold, hot." When the night is said lu during the day of a poor countries. The cloud "lu throttle don't naked and, sooner or later." that Even though the days at this time to remind people mild, but sooner or later, the climate is cool, playing stripped to the easy to catch a cold.