What are the Millennium solar terms?

The Millennium is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, and it is called the Millennium solar term when the sun reaches 165 degrees.

Millennium is the 15 solar term in 24 solar terms, and the third solar term in autumn is the end of the application of the moon in the dry calendar and the beginning of the unitary month. Fighting fingers; The sun reaches longitude 165 degrees; It is celebrated on September 7-9 in the Gregorian calendar. "White dew" is an important solar term reflecting the growth of cold in nature. As the cold air turns to attack, it is sunny and hot during the day, but the temperature drops rapidly after the evening, and the temperature difference between day and night gradually widens.

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 to match five elements. Autumn belongs to gold, gold and white alternate with each other, and autumn dew is described in white, hence the name "White Dew".

Introduction to the customs of the Millennium season;

1, drink Bailu tea

Drinking Bailu tea is the tea picked in Bailu season, also called "Xiaoqiu tea". Before and after the Millennium is an excellent time for tea tree growth. Bailu tea is neither as fresh as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea.

Step 2 brew rice wine

Brewing rice wine is one of the customs of Bailu. In Zixing, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, people will brew rice wine during the Millennium. Unlike the white wine we drink today, it is rice wine made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains. Bailu rice wine is warm and slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

3. Dedicated to Yu Wang

Sacrificing Yu Wang is a traditional custom of fishermen on both sides of Taihu Lake and people in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. Every year, on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July and the Bailu Festival, fishermen on Taihu Lake will hold incense ceremonies to offer sacrifices to Yu Wang, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and Bailu Festival are the largest.

4, ten kinds of white

Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have the custom of the Millennium Festival. People collect "ten kinds of whites" 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".