Millennium traditional food

Longan, Bailu tea, Bailu rice wine, sweet potato. The Millennium is the fifteenth of the "twenty-four solar terms", the end of applying for the moon in the calendar and the beginning of January. The sun reaches 165 degrees and will cross the Gregorian calendar on September 7-9. After the Millennium solar terms, the yin and cold qi rises, the summer heat residual temperature in early autumn gradually dissipates, cold and hot alternate day and night, and the cold produces 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".

1, longan, Bailu tea, Bailu rice wine, sweet potato. The Millennium is the fifteenth of the "twenty-four solar terms", the end of applying for the moon in the calendar and the beginning of January. The sun reaches 165 degrees and will cross the Gregorian calendar on September 7-9. After the Millennium solar terms, the yin and cold qi rises, the summer heat residual temperature in early autumn gradually dissipates, cold and hot alternate day and night, and the cold produces 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".

There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian called "The White Dew must eat longan". 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 caring skin, it can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases.

3. There is a folk saying that "spring tea is bitter, summer tea is astringent, tea is needed, and autumn dew is needed". At this time, the tea tree has experienced the summer heat, and the Millennium is the best time for its growth. Speaking of the Millennium solar terms, autumn is getting stronger.

4. Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Lijiang 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".

People think that eating sweet potatoes in Bailu can prevent stomach acid after meals, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on Bailu Festival.