Millennium customs

There are several customs in the Millennium: drinking Bailu tea, brewing rice wine, offering sacrifices to Yu Wang, picking clear autumn dew, eating eels and so on.

First, drink Bailu tea.

Drinking Bailu tea is the tea picked in Bailu season, also called "Xiaoqiu tea". Before and after the Millennium is an excellent time for tea tree growth. Bailu tea is neither as fresh as spring tea nor as dry and bitter as summer tea.

Second, brewing rice wine.

Brewing rice wine is one of the customs of Bailu. In Zixing, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, people will brew rice wine during the Millennium. Unlike the white wine we drink today, it is rice wine made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains. Bailu rice wine is warm and slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".

Third, sacrifice to Yu Wang.

Sacrificing Yu Wang is a traditional custom of fishermen on both sides of Taihu Lake and people in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang. Every year, on the eighth day of the first month, Tomb-Sweeping Day, the seventh day of July and the Bailu Festival, fishermen on Taihu Lake will hold incense ceremonies to offer sacrifices to Yu Wang, among which Tomb-Sweeping Day and Bailu Festival are the largest.

Four or ten kinds of white

Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have the custom of the Millennium Festival. People collect "ten kinds of whites" to stew black-bone white-haired chickens or ducks. These "ten kinds of white" are 10 herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter and so on. , literally corresponding to "white dew".

Five, clear autumn dew

Picking clear autumn dew is the most special "ceremony" in the Millennium. Millennium solar terms, dew will condense on the vegetation in the morning, crystal clear. There is a folk custom of picking dew and washing eyes in August.

Sixth, eat eels.

Suzhou Bailu solar terms have the custom of eating eel. People will cook white radish to make eel essence, while eating river eel and vermicelli eel is a home-cooked dish in Tongli.