White Dew's festive season is characterized by a gradual turn to cooler weather, a big difference in temperature between day and night, and cold birth and dew condensation.

White Dew is the watershed between heat and coolness, and White Dew represents the end of summer heat. White dew daytime noon temperature is higher, but the morning and night has a slight coolness. White Dew is a festival with a big difference in temperature in a year.

White Dew summer winds are gradually replaced by winter winds, the cold air to attack, coupled with the sun's point of direct sunlight to the south, the northern hemisphere sunshine time becomes shorter, the intensity of light weakened, the night is often clear and less cloudy, the ground radiation heat dissipation fast, so the temperature drop is also gradually accelerated.

White Dew season everything with the growth of cold, gradually decline, ripe, is the busy time across China. In northeastern China, harvesting of grains, sorghum and soybeans begins, and in some places new cotton begins to be picked. In North China, a variety of large fall crops have matured and are beginning to be harvested.

Northwest China began sowing winter wheat, southwest China full of yellow rice and grain have to catch up with the harvest. In central China, catching up on harvesting late and medium rice, summer maize has also begun to be harvested, and cotton is being picked in batches.

Customs and activities of the White Dew Festival

1, the collection of clear dew: According to the "Monthly Seventy-two Waiting Collections", the White Dew Festival, "the soil and water are wet, to the leaves plug insects and ants". It is believed that the clear dew collected during this season can be brewed into tea or distilled into wine.

2, brewing grain wine: some areas have the custom of "white dew rice wine". People will be in the day of the white dew, choose a good fresh glutinous rice, used to brew wine. It is said that the white dew wine not only tastes good, and will not easily deteriorate.

3, drink white dew tea: on the day of the white dew festival, some areas are popular to drink white dew tea. This kind of tea is picked at the end of the summer and has a mellow taste, which is very popular among people.

4. Sacrifice to King Yu: In Taihu Lake, Jiangsu Province, fishermen hold a ceremony to sacrifice to King Yu. They pray for King Yu to bless their fisheries with a good harvest.