Is the Millennium a traditional festival in China?

Millennium is not a traditional festival in China. It is the fifteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms in China and the third solar term in autumn, which mainly reflects the temperature changes in nature.

China traditional festivals are an important part of China's long history and culture, and their significance lies in inheriting and developing traditional culture. Millennium is not a festival in the traditional sense, it belongs to one of the 24 solar terms, reflecting the change of weather.

Of course, some of the 24 solar terms are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and the winter solstice, which have both natural and humanistic connotations. Besides these, the common traditional festivals in China are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, New Year's Eve, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on.

origin

Millennium is an important solar term, reflecting the cold growth of nature. As the weather turns cold, it is sunny and hot during the day, but the temperature drops quickly after evening, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. 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 with five elements, autumn was gold, gold and white, and white was used to describe autumn dew, hence the name Bailu.

custom

The customs and habits of Bailu include picking clear dew, offering sacrifices to Yu Wang, eating longan, drinking Bailu tea and eating sweet potatoes.

Clear dew

Folk customs have existed since ancient times. In Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, it was recorded: "When the autumn dew is numerous, it is gathered on a plate and fried like a cake, which makes people not hungry for many years."

Sacrifice Yu Wang.

Yu Wang is the legendary water control hero Dayu, and the fishermen on Taihu Lake are called "water gods". The custom of offering sacrifices to Yu Wang is held every Millennium.

Eat longan

Fuzhou, Fujian has a custom of eating longan for thousands of years. People think that eating longan on this day has the function of nourishing the body.

Drink Bailu tea

There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, and it is necessary to drink tea and autumn dew", so every household will drink white dew tea when it is white dew.

Eat sweet potatoes

People believe that eating sweet potatoes in the Millennium can prevent stomach acid after meals. In the old society, farmers had the habit of eating sweet potatoes in Bailuyuan.