What season is the White Dew solar term? What traditional food do you eat?

What season is the White Dew solar term? What traditional food do you eat?
What season is the White Dew solar term? What traditional food do you eat? The eighth month of the lunar calendar is usually the ninth month of the solar calendar. Although it is autumn, it is still very hot. Come to Mr. Shui Mo's website to learn more relevant knowledge.

What season is the White Dew solar term?

Bailu is in autumn, the 15th solar term in the 24 solar terms and the third solar term in autumn. It marks the end of the Mengqiu season and the beginning of the Zhongqiu season. It is an important festival that reflects the changes in temperature in nature. Bailu marks the end of the Shen month and the beginning of the You month in the Ganzhi calendar. It occurs between September 7 and 9 in the Gregorian calendar every year, when the sun reaches 165 degrees of the ecliptic longitude.
Bailu is the solar term with the biggest temperature difference between day and night. Around the White Dew, the remaining heat of summer gradually disappears, the yin energy of heaven and earth rises and spreads, the weather gradually turns cooler, and the morning dew becomes thicker, condensing into a layer of white water droplets on the grass leaves. The ancients matched the four seasons with the Five Elements, and autumn belongs to gold, and gold is white, so white is used to describe the autumn dew, hence the name "White Dew".

What traditional food do you eat?

Drink Bailu rice wine <br /> Old Nanjing people from southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine. In the old days, when the White Dew arrived every year, every family in the countryside in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would brew rice wine to entertain guests, and people would often bring the White Dew rice wine to the city. In Hunan, there is a custom of drinking rice wine during the White Dew Festival. Every year during the White Dew Festival, every household entertains guests with the White Dew rice wine, which is called "local wine". It is sweet and warm, and is most suitable for autumn. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains. It has a slightly sweet taste, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".
Eating longan <br /> The Fuzhou people have a long-standing custom of eating longan on the day of Bailu, believing that longan is very nutritious. On the day of Bailu, old Fuzhou people like to soak peeled longan in porridge. The longan is crystal clear, and children can eat an extra bowl of rice for it. Longan has many functions such as invigorating qi and spleen, nourishing blood and calming the mind. It can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases. In addition, longan is fully ripe during the White Dew season, has the highest sweetness and the best taste.
Drink Bailu Tea <br /> Bailu tea is tea picked during the Bailu season. Bailu tea is not as delicate and need not be brewed as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea. Instead, it has a unique sweet flavor, so veteran tea drinkers especially like it.
Pomegranate, eel <br /> During the White Dew solar term, Suzhou people would eat pomegranates, ginkgo nuts, pears, etc. to nourish the yin and moisten the lungs; they would also eat eels (eels), which are the most plump and delicious at this time, so there is a saying in Suzhou that "White Dew eels and frost crabs" are the best. On Dongtou Island outside the mouth of Oujiang River, people usually eat fresh eels stewed with white radish. Eels are rich in nutrients, while white radish has the function of "digesting food, harmonizing the stomach, and removing evil heat". The two complement each other when cooked together.

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