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When is the Millennium in 2023?

The solar terms of the Millennium in 2023 are 5: 26, 365, 438+0 seconds on September 8, 2023 in Gregorian calendar.

Millennium solar term is one of the 24 solar terms in China, which belongs to 15 solar term, and autumn is the third solar term. At this time, the sun reaches 165 degrees. Millennium solar terms reflect the cold growth of nature. At this time, the surrounding environment will gradually cool down. Although it will be hot during the day, the temperature will gradually drop after night, and the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large.

The Millennium solar term marks the end of Qiu Meng and the beginning of Mid-Autumn Festival. The summer heat gradually disappears, the yin of heaven and earth rises and disperses, the night gets colder, the temperature difference between day and night widens, and the cold dew condenses. This is also one of the reasons for the Millennium. It's a cold day, and there may be autumn dryness.

Millennium customs

Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang have always had wine-making customs. Every year when the Millennium Festival comes, every family will make wine and drink local wine when they receive guests. Its wine is warm and slightly sweet, which is called Bailu rice wine. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called Bailu rice wine.

There is a folk saying that spring tea is bitter and summer tea is astringent, so you need to drink tea and autumn dew. At this time, after the heat, the tea trees grow very well before and after the dew. Speaking of the Millennium solar terms, autumn is getting stronger. In the old days, Nanjing people attached great importance to the coming and going of solar terms, and gradually formed solar terms customs with local characteristics in Nanjing.

Yu Wang is the legendary water control hero Dayu, and the fishermen on Taihu Lake are called "water gods". Every year on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July and the Millennium, incense parties are held to commemorate Yu Wang. Among them, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Bailuyuan have the largest Spring and Autumn Festival, which lasted for one week.