What is the Millennium solar term?

Millennium is the fifteenth of the twenty-four solar terms. This solar term marks the end of the Qiu Meng season and the beginning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is an important festival reflecting the temperature changes in nature.

According to the explanation of "white dew" in the twenty-four solar terms-"water and soil condense dew, autumn belongs to gold, golden white and white dew, and qi begins to be cold". The almanac says that "the bucket refers to the dew, the yin is getting heavier, and the mausoleum is the dew, hence the name".

Entering the "White Dew", the most obvious feeling is that the temperature difference between day and night is widening, and you will feel a little cold at night. Although the summer heat may not leave at once, the sultry feeling will gradually fade away, adding a coolness of autumn in the morning and evening.

As the weather turns cold, the sun is still hot during the day, and the sun returns to the mountains, and the temperature drops rapidly. White dew, summer residual heat gradually dissipates, the yin of heaven and earth rises and disperses, it becomes cold at night, the temperature difference between day and night widens, and the cold produces dew condensation, which is one of the reasons for "white dew".

Millennium customs

1, eat white for a thousand years

Eat longan: the Millennium coincides with the longan season, and Fuzhou people must eat longan at this time.

Eat "Ten Kinds of Whites": In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places in Zhejiang Province, "Ten Kinds of Whites (white medicinal materials)" should be collected on the day of white dew to nourish black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks).

2. Bailu tea wine

In the rural areas around Jiangsu and Zhejiang, every household treats guests with Bailu rice wine made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains. In addition, Nanjing people have the habit of drinking Bailu tea, which is sweet and has a unique autumn rhyme.

3, the Millennium is not exposed

"An autumn rain, a cold, a white dew and a frost." Millennium is the solar term with the largest temperature difference between day and night in a year. It's cold, so everyone should add clothes to keep warm in time.