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The custom of the white dew diet
What are the traditional customs of the Millennium?
What does the Millennium solar term mean?
What do you know about the Millennium?
Notes on Millennium solar terms
Q: What does the Millennium mean?
Large temperature difference between day and night: In the Millennium season, although the temperature can still reach above 30℃ in sunny days, it will drop to around 20℃ at night, and the temperature difference will reach above 10℃.
Bare-chested is not appropriate: as the saying goes, "18 The White Dew is not exposed after a pot of summer heat." These two sentences mean that it is still hot in summer, and you should take a bath with a basin of water every day. /kloc-After 0/8 days, don't be shirtless and barefoot on the Millennium Festival to avoid catching cold.
Mosquitoes don't show up: The famous weather forecast host sighed in Weibo, "My favorite proverb of Bailu is: Drink Bailu mosquitoes and shut up. The silent mosquito-free season has finally arrived. "
The second question: How to maintain health in the Millennium season?
Cold and warm: Experts say that the temperature difference between morning and evening in the Millennium season is obvious, so it is necessary to add clothes and quilts in time, pay attention to cold and warm, and actively participate in physical exercise to prevent colds.
Eat less cold: It is most appropriate to eat more alkaline foods rich in vitamins, such as apples and carrots, in the Millennium. In regulating diet, we should choose light, nutritious, less irritating or non-irritating food to avoid cold and raw diet.
Three questions: Is autumn here?
On this issue, many people think that autumn has arrived, but it is not. Autumn hasn't arrived yet. Although the climate of the Millennium solar terms is declining, at noon, it still feels like summer and the temperature is still very high. Although the autumn wind blows gently in the morning and evening, giving people a feeling that autumn has arrived, autumn has not really arrived in terms of climate or temperature.
What are the customs of the Millennium?
1, sacrifice to Yu Wang
Yu Wang is the legendary Dayu who manages water. In today's Xishan Island, Jinting Town, Wuzhong District, Suzhou, there is a Wang Yu Temple. According to legend, Dayu managed water from north to south, and finally suppressed the stone fish that made waves in the lake in Zhenze. This earthquake is today's Taihu Lake.
Dayu flood control and disaster relief
Of course, the specific path of Dayu's water control is gone today, and the myths and legends are also false, but the fishermen along Taihu Lake are convinced of this. It has been 1000 years since they built a temple for Dayu on an island in Taihu Lake.
Suzhou Wang Yu Temple
Dayu Sacrifice along Taihu Lake is held four times a year, which are the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July and Bailuyuan, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and Bailuyuan are the most grand in spring and autumn. According to the records of Taihu Lake Preparation in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, the incense period in Yu Wang is generally seven days, with the first three days of offering sacrifices to heaven, the last three days of enjoying the gods, and the last day of giving a ceremony to the gods. Sacrificial tribute, of course, is aquatic products caught by fishermen in Taihu Lake. Some of the most devout fishermen will even dedicate the first fish caught in autumn to Yu Wang, so that Taihu Lake will be calm and they can have a good harvest.
The Millennium Yu Wang Sacrifice is not only for the fishermen on both sides of Taihu Lake, but also for the fishermen in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. During the whole sacrificial period, the whole Wang Yu Temple was very lively because of the large number of people who came to worship. Fishermen from all over the world brought products from all over the world, and attracted many vendors and craftsmen, so the sacrifice of Yu Wang in Taihu Lake gradually developed into a grand temple fair.
Step 2 eat longan
In Fuzhou, Fujian, there is a custom of eating longan for thousands of years. Longan is a kind of fruit and a local specialty, which has the effects of invigorating qi, strengthening spleen, nourishing blood and calming the nerves. The local people think that the Millennium is the best time to eat longan, and the longan on this day is the most nourishing.
There are many ways to eat longan, which can be eaten directly as fruit or used to cook porridge. The longan-flavored rice porridge cooked by local people is a good tonic. As for whether the longan in the Millennium is the most complementary, no one knows, but judging from the law of fruit growth, it is indeed the best period for longan to mature around the Millennium. So, it's always good to have delicious food. What about making up for it?
Step 3 brew rice wine
Zixing District, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province has always used the custom of making wine with Bailu. This wine is different from the white wine we drink today. It is rice wine made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains. Its wine is warm and slightly sweet, which is called "Bailu rice wine".
The most famous Bailu rice wine is "chengjiu" brewed by residents along the Chengjiang River. Aged wine has a very long history. Li Daoyuan in the Northern Wei Dynasty recorded in Notes on Water Classics: "There is a backwater in Chen County, which goes out to the east of the county and northwest of Gongshan Mountain. Flowing south, bending to thunder, the city water is brewing at the foot of the mountain, named Cheng Jiu. "
The brewing method of Cheng wine is also very distinctive. Unless there are special regulations on water intake and season selection, liquor should be brewed first and glutinous rice distiller's grains should be poured into the distiller's grains according to the ratio of 1:3, then put into the jar for sealing and buried underground. Therefore, although this wine is rice wine, its stamina is still quite sufficient. Therefore, in the "Xingning County Records" during Guangxu period, there is a saying that this wine can be brewed for thousands of days and drunk at home.
4. Egret tea
From the Millennium to October in the lunar calendar, it is a good time for tea trees to grow. Because the temperature difference between day and night increases at this time, the water vapor at night will condense into dew on tea trees and leaves, so the tea picked at this time is also called "Bailu tea".
Bailu tea is a kind of green tea, which is between green tea and black tea. Tea is warm and cold. Around the Millennium, the weather in most parts of northern China was dry, which was called "autumn dryness". However, with the decrease of temperature, people's physical condition is also changing adaptively, and it is no longer suitable for drinking too many cold drinks. Therefore, green tea like Bailu tea is neither as cold as green tea nor as hot as black tea, which is just suitable for drinking in autumn.
At the same time, Bailu tea is neither as delicate as spring tea nor as bitter as summer tea, and its taste is quite good.
What is the Millennium solar term for?
First, eat white ingredients to supplement your body.
In the Millennium, the summer heat has gone, and people's appetite is getting better; In order to cope with the coming winter cold, I began to make up my body.
According to legend, in order to correspond to the literal "white" of "white dew", some places eat "ten kinds of white" on the day of white dew.
The so-called "ten kinds of white" refers to ten kinds of ingredients with the word "white", such as Bai Furong, white hair bitter and so on. Some places also eat "three kinds of white", similar to this. It is said that eating it can nourish the body and remove the atmosphere.
Second, make up dew for children and get rid of diseases.
In some places, there are white dew, and there is a custom of replenishing dew for children to get rid of diseases.
If the child suffers from asthma, bed wetting and other diseases, on the day of the Millennium, his family will slaughter chickens and ducks, cook them and put them in bowls, so that the child can stutter at the fork in the road. Put the empty bowl on one road after eating, and the child will go home from another road. After a while, the family will take back the dishes and chopsticks.
It is said that this is because the Millennium "dew" and "road" are homophonic. Millennium Day puts children's rice bowls on another road, which means that asthma, bed wetting and other diseases are far away from children through Millennium Day.
Third, drink Bailu tea.
Nanjing deserves to be the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, and Nanjing people live a good life. They also attach great importance to various festivals.
Old Nanjing people drink "egret tea" and taste the unique sweetness and mellow;
Speaking of Bailu, educated Nanjing people want to drink "Bailu tea". It is said that the tea at this time is neither fresh nor soaked like spring tea; It is not as dry and bitter as summer tea, but has a unique sweet fragrance, which is especially loved by old tea customers.
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