The custom diet of the Millennium solar terms

The custom diet of Bailu solar term is: ten kinds of Bailu rice wine, Bailu tea, chicken and eel.

1, ten kinds of white

In Wenzhou, Cangnan, Pingyang and other places in Zhejiang, there are folk customs of "picking ten kinds of whites" and "eating ten kinds of whites". The "Ten Whites" are: Radix Paeoniae Alba, Rhizoma Bletillae, Atractylodis Macrocephalae, White Lentils, White Lotus, Lalang Grass Rhizome, White Yam, Lily, Poria and White Ginseng. Locals will stew these 10 samples with black-bone chicken or old duck until the soup becomes thick and white.

2. Bailu rice wine

"Summer sorghum Bailu Valley." In Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, people make rice wine from newly harvested grains such as sorghum and glutinous rice, which is called "Bailu rice wine". Jiangnan will also pick osmanthus flowers and make rice wine. Rice and osmanthus flowers are mixed together, which has a sweet taste of autumn.

3. Egret tea

There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, delicious and autumn dew". Bailu tea is produced before and after Bailu, in which the tea picked before Bailu is called "early autumn tea" and the tea picked after Bailu to1early October is called "late autumn tea". Old Nanjing people have the habit of drinking Bailu tea.

Step 4 eat chicken

In Cangnan and Pingyang, Zhejiang, when you eat ten kinds of white, you stew white-haired black-bone chicken with "ten kinds of white", while in Chongming, Shanghai, there is a custom of "eating white dew chicken". Eating chicken for thousands of years has a good meaning of good luck and good luck, and it can also paste autumn fat. Select the whole broiler and steam it with yellow wine and ginger.

5. Eel

"White dew eel first frost crab". Eel, alias white eel, white eel, river eel and eel, is the most beautiful festival at this time. Eating eel for thousands of years is the habit of old Suzhou people.