Customary Diet for White Dew Festival

The customary diets for the White Dew Festival are: Ten kinds of white, White Dew rice wine, White Dew tea, eating chicken and eel.

1, ten kinds of white

In Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, the folk have "pick ten white", eat "ten kinds of white" custom. "Ten kinds of white" that is: white peony, white hyacinth, white atractylodes, white lentil, white lotus, white root, white yam, lily, white poria, white sun ginseng ten kinds of ingredients / herbs. Locals stew these 10 with ebony chicken or old duck, etc. until the soup is simmered to a thick white color.

2, white dew rice wine

"At summer sorghum white dew valley." Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, people will be the new harvest of sorghum and glutinous rice and other grains into rice wine, called "white dew rice wine". Jiangnan will also pick osmanthus flowers into the rice wine, rice, osmanthus aroma mixed together, there is a part of the sweet taste of the golden autumn.

3, white dew tea

The folk have "spring tea bitter, summer tea astringent, to be good to drink, fall white dew" said. White dew tea for the white dew before and after the production of tea, which white dew before the picking of tea called "early fall tea", white dew after the picking of the first half of October called "late fall tea". The old Nanjing people have the habit of drinking white dew tea.

4, eat chicken

Zhejiang Cangnan, Pingyang area to eat ten white, will use "ten kinds of white" to simmering white hair chicken, and in Shanghai Chongming, there is a "White Dew eat chicken" custom. Eating chicken at White Dew has a good meaning of good luck, but also can stick to the fall fat. Choose a whole chicken, with yellow wine, ginger, etc. steamed in water.

5, eel

"White dew eel frost crab". Eel, also known as white eel, white eel, river eel, eel, this season is the most fertile. Eating eel at white dew is a habit of old Suzhou people.