What are the dietary customs of the Millennium solar terms?

1, Bailu rice wine: Old Nanjing, located in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, has the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine by itself. In the past, rural families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces made wine every year when the Millennium came. The main raw materials of Bailu wine are some whole grains such as glutinous rice and sorghum. This wine is mild in nature and is very suitable for drinking in autumn. Whenever there are guests at home, people often treat them with Bailu wine.

2. Longan: There is a traditional saying in Fuzhou that "white deer must eat longan". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of greatly supplementing the body. The longan of the Millennium solar terms is a little sweet, so it is more appropriate to eat longan at this time. Besides, longan has many functions of beauty beauty, which is very beneficial to people's health.

3. Bailu tea: Bailu tea is tea picked in Bailu season. There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, tea is needed, and autumn dew". At this time, after the summer heat, the tea tree is just another growth period before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea. It has a little too much flavor, giving people just the right feeling. Take a sip gently, and your lips and teeth will remain fragrant and full of sweetness, which is deeply loved by old tea customers.

4. Sweet potato: People think that eating sweet potato in Bailu will not cause stomach acid, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potato on Bailu Festival. Sweet potato is a kind of food we often eat in our life, which has the effects of enhancing intestinal peristalsis, relaxing bowels and detoxifying. Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, and its sugar content reaches 15% ~ 20%.

5. Black-boned white-haired chicken or duck

Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have had the custom of Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens or ducks. It is said that eating food made in this way can nourish the body.