What is the solar term after the heat?

The solar term after the heat is the Millennium. The Millennium of 202 1 is September 7th, which is the 15th of the 24 solar terms. When the sun reaches 165 degrees, it is the Millennium, and it is celebrated on September 7 -9 in the solar calendar. The arrival of the Millennium means that the summer heat is over, which is the turning point from sultry to cool in autumn.

Millennium customs

First, drink Bailu tea.

Tea leaves picked before and after Bailu are called Bailu tea. After spring and summer, tea becomes rich and mellow in autumn, neither as delicate as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea. Old Nanjing people prefer to drink Bailu tea.

Second, eat longan

There is a traditional saying in Fuzhou that "the Millennium must eat longan". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of nourishing the body. Eating an longan on this day is equivalent to eating a chicken. Whether it is really tonic or not, it is tonic after eating, so Fuzhou people are used to this traditional custom.

Third, sacrifice to Yu Wang.

The Millennium is also the day when people in Taihu Lake offer sacrifices to Yu Wang. Yu Wang is a legendary hero of water control, and fishermen on Taihu Lake call him "Waterway Bodhisattva". Every year, on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July, and White Deer Festival, there will be ceremonies to burn incense to Yu Wang, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and White Deer Spring and Autumn Festival are the largest and last for one week. While offering sacrifices to Yu Wang, they also offered sacrifices to the land god, flower god, silkworm flower girl, door god, house god and Jiang Taigong.