Millennium is one of the traditional 24 solar terms in China. What food culture does this solar term have?

"He knows that the dew tonight will be frost, and the night will be cold from now on." The white dew is the 15 solar term in the "twenty-four solar terms", the third solar term in autumn, and it is the end of applying for the moon in the dry calendar and the beginning of the unitary month.

During the Bailuyuan period, local folk customs mainly included offering sacrifices to Dayu, brewing grain wine and drinking Bailuyuan tea.

Clear dew

Autumn dew

China folks have the custom of "picking clean dew" in the Millennium solar terms. 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 rice, which makes people not hungry for many years." "The autumn dew on the head of a hundred herbs is collected when it is not embarrassing. The more sick you are, the thirst will be quenched, and people will be light and hungry. " The flower is exposed, which is a good color. Thus, dew-clearing has become the most special "ceremony" in the Millennium.

Drink Bailu tea

Bailucha

Bailu tea is tea picked in Bailu season. There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, tea is needed, and autumn dew". At this time, after the summer heat, the tea tree is just another growth period before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea. It has a little too much flavor, giving people just the right feeling. Take a sip gently, and your lips and teeth will remain fragrant and full of sweetness, which is deeply loved by old tea customers.

Eat sweet potatoes

Sweet potato is rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and various minerals, and its sugar content reaches 15% ~ 20%. It has anti-cancer, heart protection, prevention of emphysema, diabetes, weight loss and other effects. Chinese medicine regards sweet potato as a good medicine and has the reputation of "longevity food". Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Sweet potato can tonify deficiency, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and strengthen kidney yin". People believe that eating sweet potatoes in the Millennium can prevent stomach acid after meals, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on the Millennium Festival.

Sip rice wine

Bailu rice wine

Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang in Zixing, Hunan have always had the custom of making wine. Every year on the Millennium Festival, every family will make wine and drink "local wine" when receiving guests. Its wine takes glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains as raw materials, which is mild and sweet, and is called "Bailu rice wine".

Jiangsu and Zhejiang also have the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine. In the old society, Bailu went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang rural areas every year, and every family made wine to entertain guests. People often brought Bailu rice wine into the city. Until the 1930s and 1940s, there were still zero copies of Bailu rice wine in hotels in Nanjing, and then it gradually disappeared. ?

Sacrifice Yu Wang.

Sacrifice Yu Wang.

People living in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province will make sacrifices to Yu Wang in the Millennium. Yu Wang is the legendary hero of water control, Dayu. Fishermen on Taihu Lake call him "Waterway Bodhisattva". Every year, on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July, and White Deer Festival, there will be ceremonies to burn incense to Yu Wang, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and White Deer Spring and Autumn Festival are the largest and last for one week. ?

Eat longan

There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian called "longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of greatly supplementing the body. Because longan itself has many functions, such as invigorating qi and strengthening spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves, moistening skin and beautifying face, it can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases, and longan was sweet and delicious thousands of years ago, so it is better to eat longan in thousands of years. ?

Ten kinds of white

In Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places, there has also been the custom of Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (also known as "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). It is said that eating it can nourish the body and dispel the atmosphere (arthritis). 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".

The public should always pay attention to adding clothes to prevent colds.

Diet should follow the principle of "benefiting qi and moistening dryness", and properly choose yam, tremella, lily, almond, Sydney, radish, tomato, honey and other foods beneficial to the spleen and stomach, nourishing yin and promoting fluid production; Drink plenty of water at ordinary times to keep the humidity of respiratory tract and lungs.

Adhere to warm foot bath and acupoint massage to promote blood circulation. In daily life, go to bed early and get up early, get enough sleep, exercise properly, combine work and rest, pay attention to psychological adjustment, and be open-minded, emotionally stable, calm and enhance immune function.