What do people usually do during the White Dew season?

People usually collect clear dew at the time of White Dew, sacrifice to King Yu, eat longan, drink white dew tea, drink white dew rice wine, collect ten kinds of white, eat sweet potatoes and so on.

1, the collection of clear dew: China's folk in the white dew festival has a "collection of clear dew" custom, the collection of clear dew can be regarded as a kind of recreational folk activities, in fact, the collection of dew may not be as practical as imagined effect is so great, just people will be attached to a lot of good expectations in it.

2. Worship King Yu: King Yu is the legendary water-control hero Yu, known to fishermen on the shores of Lake Taihu as the "God of the Waterways. Every year on the eighth day of the first month, Qingming, the seventh day of the seventh month, and the white dew season, the incense festival of Yuwang is held here. Among them, the Ching Ming and White Dew Spring and Autumn Sacrifices are the largest and last for a week. The incense period of Yuwang usually lasts for seven days, with three days of worship in the first three days, three days of rewards for the gods in the second three days, and a ceremony of sending off the gods on the last day. During the worship, people make a wish that the first fat fish caught in autumn and winter will be offered to Yuwang.

3, eat longan: Fuzhou, Fujian Province, a traditional custom called "white dew must eat longan.

4, white dew tea: folk "spring tea bitter, summer tea astringent, want to drink tea, autumn white dew," said the tea tree at this time after the summer heat, before and after the white dew is it grows very good period. By the White Dew Festival, autumn is getting thicker.

5, white dew rice wine: Zixing Xingning, Sandu, Tate River area has always had the custom of brewing. Every year, when the White Dew Festival arrives, every family brews wine, and must drink "soil wine" to receive guests. The wine is warm and slightly sweet, and is called "White Dew Rice Wine". Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

6, ten kinds of white: Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and other places have the custom of Bai Lu Festival. Cangnan, Pingyang and other folk, people in this day to collect "ten kinds of white" (there are also "three kinds of white" argument), to simmering black bone white hair chicken (or duck). These "ten kinds of white" are 10 kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., to correspond with the "white dew" literally.

7, eat sweet potatoes: sweet potatoes are rich in protein, starch, pectin, cellulose, amino acids, vitamins and a variety of minerals, sugar content of 15% to 20%.