The traditional foods eaten in Bailu Solar Festival include pears, red dates, sweet potatoes, rice wine, longan, Bailu tea, black-bone white-haired chicken, ducks, cauliflower, lotus roots and mushrooms. Fuzhou, Fujian has the tradition that "the Millennium must eat longan". The implication is that eating longan on this day of the Millennium is of great benefit to health.

Bailu solar terms

The Millennium is the fifteenth solar term in the "twenty-four solar terms", the third solar term in autumn, the end of the lunar calendar and the beginning of the full moon.

During the Millennium solar term, the summer monsoon was gradually replaced by the winter monsoon, and the cold air changed from defense to attack. In addition, the direct point of the sun moves south, which shortens the sunshine time and weakens the light intensity in the northern hemisphere.

According to the observation of nature, the ancients in China divided the peace and prosperity into three stages: "When the geese come, the mysterious birds return, and the birds are ashamed."