The custom activities of the millennium solar terms. I believe everyone is familiar with the 24 solar terms in China. Millennium is one of the 24 solar terms, and there are many customs in the Millennium. Then I'll show you more about the customs and activities of the Millennium solar terms.

Millennium solar festival custom activities 1

1, sacrifice to Yu Wang

According to legend, every year in the Millennium season, fishermen in Taihu Lake have a tradition of worshipping Dayu. In Gong Yu, Dayu dredged three rivers, which made him a "tripod with two handles". Zhenze is the ancient name of Taihu Lake. According to legend, Dayu managed water from north to south, from the Yellow River to Jianghuai, and finally made waves in Taihu Lake, putting the octopus under the lake and eliminating the flood.

Although myth is regarded as illusory, it has people's most sincere yearning. From the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Taihu Lake was not calm because of the miracle of ancient kings. On the contrary, there were as many as 42 major floods in history. It seems that the aojiang fish doesn't want to be bound, and the fierce fighting between Yu Wang and the lake monster continues. What fishermen in Taihu Lake can do is to hold a grand festival for Yu Wang for thousands of years to encourage him and pray for his safety.

The Millennium is the third solar term in autumn. At this time, the autumn water is full and the fish and crabs are fat. In order to get a good harvest in the next fishing season and have a calm lake surface, fishermen on both sides of Taihu Lake rushed to the Wang Yu Temple on the central island of Taihu Lake to burn incense and pray for the blessing of the gods during the egret season. According to the records of Taihu Lake Preparation in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, the incense period in Yu Wang is generally seven days, with the first three days of offering sacrifices to heaven, the last three days of enjoying the gods, and the last day of giving a ceremony to the gods. At the time of worship, people made a vow to dedicate the first fat fish caught in autumn and winter to Yu Wang. Not only fishermen on both sides of Taihu Lake, but also fishermen from southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang and Shanghai will come to participate. Fishermen from all over the country will decorate incense pavilions in front of the temple and compete with each other to see who has more ceremonies and whose incense pavilions are more magnificent.

Step 2 collect dew

In China, there is a custom of "picking the dew" in the Millennium solar terms. In the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, it said: "When the autumn dew is numerous, it is collected on a plate and fried like rice, which makes people not hungry for a long time." "The autumn dew on the head of a hundred herbs is collected when it is not embarrassing. The more sick you are, the thirst will be quenched, and people will be light and hungry. " The flower is exposed, which is a good color. Thus, dew-clearing has become the most special "ceremony" in the Millennium.

3. Jujube

Around the Millennium, farmers began to collect dates. Most of the time, bamboo poles are used to beat dates, but the intensity is light to reduce the damage to jujube trees. Otherwise, the yield of jujube trees in the coming year will be worrying. This condition is vividly called deafness.

The technique of beating dates is to beat a few times on the big branches first and shake off some dates. For those dates that have not been shaken, cross them with a pole along the direction of branch growth, which is similar to smoothing.

The three principles of jujube are: first, take good care of jujube trees; Second, clean it up; Third, let the dates fall in the shade, and don't hit them too far, or you will lose money.

The custom activities of the Millennium solar terms 2 Eating more potatoes after the Millennium can prevent constipation.

The dry weather in autumn makes people constipated easily. Nutrition experts suggest that people can appropriately increase the intake of potatoes during the Millennium Festival, and eat them five times a week, preferably once or twice each time. People often eat potatoes, such as sweet potato, potato and yam. Sweet potato, also known as sweet potato, contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, dietary fiber, trace elements and other ingredients beneficial to human health. Sweet potato is a low-calorie food, equivalent to one-fifth of rice, suitable for dieters.

Three representative dishes of sweet potato

1, papaya sweet potato

Ingredients: sweet potato, papaya, coriander leaves, salt, onion, minced garlic and cooking oil.

Practice: After washing the sweet potato, peel it and cut it into pieces. After cleaning, peeling, removing seeds and pulp, papaya is cut into hob blocks slightly smaller than sweet potato. After putting oil in a hot pan, add minced garlic and shallots and stir-fry at 40% oil temperature, add sweet potato slices and stir-fry until medium-ripe, then add papaya and stir-fry, add appropriate amount of water and salt, and add some coriander leaves when the soup is dry.

2. Stir-fried sweet potato corn kernels

Ingredients: sweet potato, corn kernels, medlar, green pepper, salt, pepper, broth, edible oil, water starch.

Practice: Wash and peel the sweet potato and cut it into cubes the size of corn kernels. Wash the corn kernels and blanch them with boiling water for later use. Wash Lycium barbarum with water and dice green pepper. Ignition in the pot, pour in oil, add diced sweet potatoes about 70% ripe, fry until the skin is hard, and drain the oil; Leave the base oil, stir-fry the green pepper and corn kernels, stir-fry the diced sweet potatoes, add the broth, salt and pepper until the diced ones are cooked, stir-fry the medlar and thicken evenly.

3.sweet potato bazan

Raw materials: sweet potato, brown sugar powder, butter, flaxseed, peanut oil, rice flour and glutinous rice flour.

Practice: Wash half a catty of sweet potatoes, peel and cut into pieces, steam them in water, then press them into mashed potatoes and add brown sugar powder (the amount depends on personal taste); Heat 30 grams of butter in a pot with low fire, then stir-fry 20 grams of flaxseed, and pour in mashed potatoes and mix well; Squeeze the cooked sweet potato and filter the residue, then add glutinous rice flour and knead it into dough, wrap it in the processed sweet potato paste, spread peanut oil on the plate of the steamer, sweep a little oil on the wrapped rice cake, and steam it in the pot for 10 minute.

What is the origin of the Millennium? Millennium is the fifteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, the end of applying for the moon and the beginning of the unitary month. The time point is from September 7th to 9th every year in Gregorian calendar, when the sun reaches 165 degrees.

"Twenty-four solar terms" said: "August Festival ... Yin Qi is getting heavier and heavier, showing white." As the weather gets colder and colder, you will find many dewdrops on the ground and leaves in the morning, which is named after the water vapor condenses on them at night. The ancients used four seasons with five elements, and autumn was golden and golden white, so white was used to describe autumn dew. Entering the "Millennium", I will feel a little cold at night.

The origin of the Millennium

Millennium is one of the 24 solar terms, and it is also the end of the calendar application month and the beginning of January. Dew is water droplets formed by condensation of water vapor on the ground or near-earth objects due to temperature drop. So the Millennium actually indicates that the weather is getting cold. At this time, people will obviously feel that the hot summer has passed and the cool autumn has arrived. The temperature difference between day and night can reach more than ten degrees. Yang Qi reached its peak in the summer solstice, and these two extremes must be reversed, and Yin Qi also rose at this time. When it comes to the White Dew, the yin gradually increases, and the morning dew gradually thickens and condenses into a layer of white water drops, so it is called the White Dew. As the saying goes, "eighteen pots of summer heat, not exposed to the Millennium." These two sentences mean that it is still hot in summer, so you must take a bath with a basin of water every day. After eighteen days, in the new millennium, don't be shirtless and naked, lest you catch cold. There is also a saying: "White dew and white fans, the autumn equinox is beautiful." This means that if there is dew before and after the white dew, the late rice will have a good harvest.

"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. In fact, meteorology shows that at this time of the solar term, the weather becomes cool and the sun is still very hot during the day. But as soon as the sun returns to the mountains, the temperature will drop rapidly. At night, the water vapor in the air will condense and form tiny water droplets, which are very densely attached to the green stems, leaves or petals of flowers and trees and are white. Especially after the morning sun exposure, it looks more crystal-clear and attractive, thus obtaining the beauty of "White Dew".