What do people usually do in the Millennium?

During the Millennium, people usually collect dew, offer sacrifices to Yu Wang, eat longan, drink white dew tea, drink white dew rice wine, collect ten kinds of white dew and eat sweet potatoes.

1. dew picking: There is a custom of "dew picking" in the solar terms of Bailu in China. Exposing dew can be regarded as an entertaining folk activity. In fact, the actual effect of collecting dew may not be as great as imagined, but people will attach many beautiful expectations to it.

2. Sacrifice to Yu Wang: Yu Wang is a legendary hero of water control, 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. Yu Wang's incense period is usually seven days, the first three days are worship, the last three days are worship, and the last day is a ceremony to send God. At the time of worship, people made a vow to dedicate the first fat fish caught in autumn and winter to Yu Wang.

3. Eat longan: There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian called "White deer must eat longan."

4. Bailu tea: There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, tea is needed, and autumn Bailu". At this time, after the heat, the tea trees grow very well before and after the Millennium. Speaking of the Millennium solar terms, autumn is getting stronger.

5. Bailu rice wine: Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Lijiang have always had wine-making customs. Every year on the Millennium Festival, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine temperature is spicy and slightly sweet, so it 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".

6, ten kinds of white: Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have had the custom of the Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (there are also "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). These "ten kinds of white" are 10 herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter and so on. , literally corresponding to "white dew".

7. Eat sweet potato: Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, with a sugar content of 15% ~ 20%.