White Dew is one of the twenty-four traditional Chinese solar terms, what is the food culture of this solar term?

"The dew is white tonight, and the night is cooler since then." White Dew is the 15th of the 24 Solar Terms, the third solar term in the fall, and the end of the month of Shen and the beginning of the month of You in the dry-branch calendar.

Folklore during the White Dew period includes worshiping Dayu, brewing wine with five grains, and drinking White Dew tea.

Collecting Clear Dew

Autumn Dew

Chinese folk have the custom of "collecting clear dew" during the White Dew Festival. It will help people to prolong life without hunger." "Autumn dew on the head of the hundred herbs, not sob to collect, heal all diseases, quench thirst, people light, not hungry, muscles happy." "Dew on the flowers, people good color." Therefore, the collection of dew has become the most special kind of white dew "ceremony".

Drinking White Dew Tea

White Dew Tea

White Dew Tea is in the White Dew season picking tea, folk "spring tea bitter, summer tea astringent, want to drink tea, autumn White Dew," the saying, this time of the tea tree after the summer heat, before and after the White Dew is exactly it! Another good period of growth. White Dew tea is neither as fresh as spring tea, not soaked, not as dry as summer tea bitter flavor, it has more than a few overcooked flavor, give people a feeling just right. Gently sip, between the lips and teeth full of sweet flavor, loved by the old tea drinkers.

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%. There are anti-cancer, heart protection, prevention of emphysema, diabetes, weight loss and other effects, Chinese medicine as sweet potato as a good medicine, "longevity food" reputation. Li Shizhen "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "sweet potato deficiency, spleen and stomach, strong kidney yin". Folk think white dew eat sweet potato can make the meal will not send stomach acid, so the old farmhouse in the white dew festival to eat sweet potato as a habit.

Sip rice wine

Bai Lu rice wine

Hunan Zixing's Xingning, Sandu, Tate River area has traditionally had the custom of brewing wine. Every year, when the White Dew Festival arrives, every family brews wine, and guests must drink "local wine". The wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, warm in the heat, slightly sweet, called "white dew rice wine".

Jiangsu and Zhejiang also have the custom of brewing their own white dew rice wine. In the old days, when the countryside around Jiangsu and Zhejiang was full of people, every year when the white dew arrived, every family brewed wine and used it to treat guests, and people often brought the white dew rice wine to the city. Until the 1930s and 1940s, there were still a few copies of Bai Lu rice wine in hotels in Nanjing, but it gradually disappeared.

Sacrificing King Yu

Sacrificing King Yu

Ordinary people living along the shores of Lake Taihu in Jiangsu Province would sacrifice King Yu during the Bai Lu festival. Yuwang is the legendary water-control hero, Dayu, who is known as the "Bodhisattva of Waterways" to the fishermen on the shores of Taihu Lake. Every year on the eighth day of the first month, Qingming, the seventh day of the seventh month, and at the time of the White Dew, the incense festival of Yuwang will be held here, of which the scale of the spring and autumn festivals of Qingming and the White Dew is the largest and lasts one week.

Eating Longan

There is a traditional custom in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, which is called "Eating Longan at White Dew". The folk meaning is, in the white dew this day to eat longan has a big tonic body magic effect. Because longan itself is beneficial to the spleen, nourishing blood and tranquility, moisturizing beauty and other effects, but also can treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and many other diseases, and before the white dew longan big sweet taste good, so white dew to eat longan is no better.

Ten kinds of white

Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and other places also have the custom of the White Dew 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), it is said that after eating can nourish the body, to wind (arthritis). The "ten kinds of white" are 10 herbs with the word "white", such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., in order to literally correspond to the "white dew".

"White dew body not dew", the public should always pay attention to add clothing to prevent cold and flu.

Diet should follow the principle of "nourishing qi moisten dry", appropriate use of yam, fungus, lily, almonds, pear, radish, tomato, honey and other beneficial to the spleen and stomach and nourishing Yin and Jin's food; usually drink more water, to maintain the respiratory tract and lungs of the degree of wetness.

Insist on warm water foot baths and acupressure points to promote blood circulation. In terms of living, go to bed early and get up early, get enough sleep, exercise appropriately, and combine work and rest, while paying attention to mental regulation, so as to achieve an open mind, emotional stability, tranquilize the spirit, and enhance the immune function.