What food is good to eat in the Millennium?

Bailu has the folk custom of eating sweet potato rice.

As the saying goes, the white dew rises first, and sweet potatoes are born. When it comes to seasonal ingredients in the Millennium season, you can't escape the sweet and soft sweet potato. Sweet potato rice is generally divided into dry rice and porridge. In the past, in the suburbs and rural areas of Chengdu, the average family had three meals a day, which was two sparse meals. Farmers from poor families have two meals a day, one dry meal or two porridge.

Because sweet potato is cheap and convenient to eat, it is mixed with rice and cooked into sweet potato dry rice and porridge. Sweet potato not only tastes sweet, but also bears hunger. Besides steaming, boiling and other cooking methods, people will cook in different ways, such as frying, baking and drying in the sun, which is more resistant to storage.

Besides sweet potato, there is also fruit longan, also called longan, which tastes very sweet. In some areas of Fujian, there is also the traditional custom of eating longan. "White dew must eat longan", at this time longan is completely mature, with high sweetness and good taste. Longan meat is warm, sweet and delicious, not greasy. It is also a good ingredient to prevent "autumn dryness".

Millennium customs

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.

Bailu rice wine: Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang 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".

Ten kinds of white: Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have had the custom of White Deer 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".