20 18 Millennium Time: 00: 29: 37 on September 8th.
When the sun reaches longitude 165 degrees around September 8 every year, it is the "Millennium" solar term. "White Dew" is a festival that reflects the temperature changes in nature. Dew is a unique natural phenomenon after the solar term of "White Dew". The weather at this time, as the Book of Rites said: "The cool wind comes, the dew falls, and cicadas sing." According to the explanation of "white dew" in the twenty-four solar terms-"water and soil condense dew, autumn belongs to gold, golden white and white dew, and qi begins to be cold". The ancients also said in Xiao Weijing: "The fifteenth day after the summer heat is white dew", and the yin is getting heavier and heavier, and the dew condenses into white. "
What are the solar terms in the same batch as the Millennium?
Beginning of autumn: The beginning of autumn.
Summer heat: place means stop and hide. Summer is the end of hot summer.
White dew: The weather turns cold and the dew condenses into white.
When is the solar term of the Millennium? What season is the Millennium every year?
Millennium solar terms (source: network)
Autumnal equinox: divided equally between day and night.
Cold dew: Dew is cold and will freeze.
First frost: it's getting colder and colder, frosty.
Customs in the south of Bailuyuan
There is a tradition in Fuzhou called "Longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of nourishing the body. Longan itself has many functions, such as invigorating qi and spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves, moistening skin and caring skin, and can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases. Moreover, before the Millennium, longan was big and sweet, so it was best to eat longan in the Millennium. Whether it is really tonic or not, Fuzhou people are used to it.
Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places have had the custom of Millennium Festival. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (also known as "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). It is said that eating it can nourish the body and dispel the atmosphere (arthritis). These "ten kinds of white" are ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter and so on, which literally corresponds to "white dew"
Wencheng, people think that eating sweet potatoes in Bailu can prevent stomach acid after eating shredded sweet potatoes and rice all year round, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on Bailu Festival.
Old Nanjing people like "Egret Tea" very much. At this time, the tea tree has experienced the summer heat, and it is an excellent period for its growth before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and mellow taste, which is especially loved by old tea customers. Old Nanjing in southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang also has the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine. In the old society, Bailu went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang rural areas every year, and every family made wine to entertain guests. People often brought Bailu rice wine into the city. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".