What do people usually do in the Millennium?

In the Millennium, people usually eat longan, sweet potato and rice wine, collect "ten kinds of whites" and drink green tea.

1, eat longan: There is a traditional saying in Fuzhou that "longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Thousand-year-old longan was big, with small core and sweet taste, so it is better to eat thousand-year-old longan, whether it is a real tonic or not.

2. Eating sweet potatoes: People believe that eating sweet potatoes in Bailuyuan can make the stomach acid after eating sweet potatoes and shredded sweet potatoes all the year round, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potatoes in Bailuyuan Festival.

3. Drink 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".

4. Collect "Ten Kinds of Whites": People in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province collect "Ten Kinds of Whites" (there are also sayings of "Three Kinds of Whites") on this day and snuggle up with black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). These "ten kinds of white" are ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as Trichoderma, white hair bitter and so on, which literally corresponds to "white dew"

5. Drink green tea: Old Nanjing, who loves tea, likes "Bailu tea" very much. At this time, the tea tree has experienced the summer heat, and it is an excellent period for its growth before and after the Millennium.

Characteristics of the Millennium

There is a poem in an ancient book: "A Rose Raining at Night in Autumn Pool" describes the solar terms and the white dew in autumn. At the same time, the Millennium is also the beginning of autumn rain in West China. Every year in the busy days around the Millennium, the rain will last for a long time, the air will become humid, and the temperature difference between day and night will begin to increase.

Millennium solar terms are solar terms that reflect the cold growth of nature. At this time, the surrounding environment will gradually cool down. Although it will be hot during the day, the temperature will gradually drop after night, and the temperature difference between day and night is relatively large.