What traditional food to eat on the White Dew: brewing white dew rice wine
South Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the old Nanjing there is the custom of brewing white dew rice wine, the old days of the Soviet Union and Zhejiang area of the countryside every year white dew to the arrival of the family brewing wine to treat guests, there are often people who bring the white dew rice wine to the city. Bai Lu wine with glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains brewed, slightly sweet, so called "Bai Lu rice wine".
It is a custom in Hunan to drink rice wine at the White Dew Festival. Every year, during the White Dew Festival, every family treats their guests to White Dew Rice Wine, which is called "soil wine" and is sweet, warm and perfect for the fall. Made from glutinous rice, it is sweet and mellow, and has a low alcohol content. Glutinous rice wine can promote gastric secretion, improve appetite, help digestion; also can promote blood circulation, for high blood fat, atherosclerosis has a certain effect; for people who do not have a meridian, glutinous rice wine also have the role of the meridian. May as well personally brew a bottle to over white dew.
What to eat on the white dew traditional food: longan
Fuzhou has a tradition called "white dew must eat longan" said. Folk meaning, in the white dew this day to eat longan has a great tonic body effect, in this day to eat a longan is equivalent to eat a chicken so complementary, sounds and feels too exaggerated. However, longan itself is beneficial to the spleen, blood and tranquility, emollient beauty and other efficacy, but also can treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia, and many other diseases, and before the white dew longan each large, small nuclei sweet taste good, so white dew to eat longan is no better, regardless of whether it is not really complementary, there is to eat is to make up for it, so the people of Fuzhou are also accustomed to this traditional custom.
White dew eat what traditional food: white dew tea
Old Nanjing people are very favorable "white dew tea", this time the tea tree after the summer heat, white dew before and after it is the growth of the best period. White dew tea is neither as fresh as spring tea, not bubble, not like summer tea as dry astringent taste bitter, but there is a unique sweet fragrance, especially by the old tea drinkers love. If the spring tea to drink is that fresh aroma, light grass flavor, then late fall tea to drink is a rich, mellow flavor. After a summer of suffering, the tea also seems to boil out the strongest character in time.
White dew eat what traditional food: sweet potato
Folk believe that white dew eat sweet potato can make the whole year to eat sweet potato silk and sweet potato silk rice, will not send stomach acid, so the old farmhouse in the White Dew Festival to eat sweet potato as a habit. With the change of climate, in terms of living and eating should also be adjusted accordingly. After the white dew, the temperature difference gradually increase, pay attention to timely add clothing, prevent cold. In the diet to food variety, to cereal-based, increase some potato food. Sweet potato dietary fiber can stimulate the intestinal tract, enhance intestinal peristalsis, laxative detoxification, especially for senile constipation has a better efficacy, but also to reduce the occurrence of intestinal cancer.
What to eat in the white dew traditional food: simmering black bone white hair chicken (or duck)
Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province and other places in the White Dew Festival custom. 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 bone white hair chicken (or duck), it is said that after eating can nourish the body, to wind (arthritis). This "ten kinds of white" is ten kinds of herbs with "white" word, such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, and so on, in order to "white dew" literally corresponding.