Why should we eat free food in the Millennium season?

In the Millennium, the weather gradually turned cold, and autumn dryness became the main feature. The main purpose of eating and drinking for nothing is to relieve autumn dryness.

The so-called "free food" usually refers to white food, such as lily, lotus seed, tremella, pear and lotus root. Most of these foods can relieve autumn dryness. In addition, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables in the Millennium season, such as carrots, white gourd, persimmons and so on. During the Bailuyuan period, local folk customs mainly included offering sacrifices to Dayu, brewing grain wine and drinking Bailuyuan tea.

During the white dew, the summer monsoon is gradually replaced by the winter monsoon, and the cold air changes from defense to attack. In addition, when the direct point of the sun moves south, the sunshine time in the northern hemisphere becomes shorter, the light intensity weakens, and the ground radiation dissipates heat quickly, so the cooling speed gradually accelerates. The Millennium basically ended the sweltering heat in summer, and the weather gradually turned cold, and the cold gave birth to dew condensation. The ancients used four seasons to match five elements. Autumn belongs to gold, gold and white alternate with each other, and autumn dew is described in white, hence the name "White Dew".

Millennium traditional food

1, drink 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.

Step 2 sip rice wine

Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang in Zixing, Hunan have always had the custom of making wine. Every year on the Millennium Festival, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine takes glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains as raw materials, which is mild and sweet, and is called "Bailu rice wine".

Step 3 eat longan

There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian called "longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Longan before Bailu tastes sweet and good, so it is better to eat longan in Bailu.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Bailu (one of the 24 solar terms).