本草志
Bencao Archive
Cooking with the solar terms
What is in season now, where it comes from in the classical herbals, and how it is cooked at home.
No claims about what it does. Only provenance and method.
Sections
Seasonal food
The 24 solar terms: what is in season, the old customs, and how it is cooked at home.
Ingredients
The current official list of substances that are both food and Chinese medicine, with the notice each one comes from.
The 24 solar terms, illustrated
One drawing for each term. The ones you can open already have their entry written.
- Start of Spring
- Rain Water
- Awakening of Insects
- Spring Equinox
- Clear and Bright
- Grain Rain
- Start of Summer
- Grain Buds
- Grain in Ear
- Summer Solstice
- Minor Heat
- Major Heat
- Start of Autumn
- End of Heat
- White Dew
- Autumn Equinox
- Cold Dew
- Frost's Descent
- Start of Winter
- Minor Snow
- Major Snow
- Winter Solstice
- Minor Cold
- Major Cold
Recently published
- Cold DewSolar term · 8–9 October
- Goji BerrySubstance · all three layers recorded
- Chrysanthemum FlowerSubstance · all three layers recorded
- Black SesameSubstance · all three layers recorded
Why there is so little here
The archive holds 106 edible-medicinal substances and 24 solar terms. Nothing goes up until a citable source has been found and the original text checked, so it is slow. Slow beats wrong.