1. Sacrifice to King Yu

The White Dew season is the day when the people of Taihu Lake sacrifice to King Yu. Yuwang is known as Dayu, and fishermen on the shores of Lake Taihu call him the "Bodhisattva of the Waterways. The festival is held four times a year, with the spring and autumn festivals of Qingming and Bai Lu being the largest, lasting six days in spring and seven days in autumn. At this time, an opera is sung every day, with four plays in each. Two literary plays and two martial arts plays, one of which must be "Fishing and Killing the Family".

2, drink white dew tea

Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the countryside, the annual white dew, every year, families are brewed with grains, used to treat guests, and often people bring the white dew rice wine to the city to sell. Bai Lu wine with glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains brewed, slightly sweet, so called Bai Lu rice wine. The best of the Bairu rice wine is "Chengju", named after the water of the Cheng River.

3, steaming ten kinds of white

Zhejiang Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people in the white dew this day to collect "ten kinds of white" to simmer the bone white hair chicken (or duck), it is said that the food can be nourishing the body, the treatment of arthritis has the benefit. This ten kinds of white is ten kinds of herbs with white characters, such as white hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., in order to correspond with the white dew in the word. And in Wencheng County, the people believe that eating sweet potatoes at the time of white dew can make the whole year to eat sweet potatoes after meals without stomach acid.

4, eat longan

Fuzhou has a tradition, called white dew must eat longan. Folk believe that in the white dew this day to eat longan has a great complement to the body's miraculous effect, eat a longan equivalent to eat a chicken so complementary. Longan itself is beneficial to the spleen, nourish the blood and tranquilize the spirit, moisturize the skin and beauty and so on a variety of roles, and before the white dew longan each large, small nuclei sweet taste good, so white dew is a good time to eat longan.

5, white dew rice wine

Zixing Xingning, Sandu, Tate River area has always had the custom of brewing. Every year, when the White Dew Festival arrives, every family brews wine, and guests must drink the local wine. The wine is warm with heat, slightly sweet flavor, called white dew rice wine. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, slightly sweet, so it is called Bailu rice wine.

Expanded Information

Before and after the White Dew, the summer residual heat gradually disappeared, the yin of heaven and earth rose and spread, the weather gradually turned cooler, the dew in the morning is increasingly thickened, in the surface of the grass and leaves condensed into a layer of white droplets, which is one of the name of the White Dew by. Plants began to have dew into the white dew season, summer winds are gradually replaced by winter winds, cold air to attack, warm air gradually retreat.

At this time, precipitation in northern China is significantly reduced, the autumn high, relatively dry. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River during this period, the first autumn rains can often relieve the water shortage in the early part of the year, but if the cold air meets the typhoon, or the cold and warm air are evenly matched, the two sides of the battle in and out of the hard times, the formation of torrential rains or low-temperature rainstorms are unfavorable to the growth of crops in the fall.

White Dew is a festival with the biggest temperature difference between day and night in the whole year. After White Dew, the temperature starts to drop, the weather turns cooler, and the water vapor condensation on the ground starts to increase. After the white dew, people are prone to dry mouth, dry lips and so on, which is typical of autumn dryness. White Dew season's diet should be based on strengthening the spleen and moistening dryness, it is advisable to eat the nature of flat taste sweet or sweet and warm things, it is advisable to eat nutritious, easy to digest flat complementary food.

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