The folk culture of Bailu includes collecting clear dew, eating longan, drinking Bailu tea, drinking rice wine and eating sweet potatoes.

1. Clear dew:

"Jian Cang, Bailu is frost", Bailu solar terms, dew will condense on the vegetation in the morning, crystal clear. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty recorded: "When the autumn dew is numerous, it will be collected on a plate and fried like a cake, which will prolong life and make people not hungry."

It can be seen that "collecting dew" of the White Dew has long been a folk custom. In the traditional seasonal belief, the White Dew in autumn is a panacea for eye diseases, and there is a folk custom of collecting dew in August to wash eyes. "The flowers are exposed, which is a good color".

2. Eat longan:

"The Millennium must eat longan". Longan is in the Bailu solar term, just fully mature, with the highest sweetness and the best taste. According to legend, on the day of the Millennium, eating a longan is equivalent to eating a chicken, which greatly supplements the body. The reason is beyond examination. However, longan itself has the effects of moisturizing and beautifying, calming the nerves and nourishing blood, benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen.

3. Drink Bailu tea:

There is a folk saying that "tea in spring is bitter, tea in summer is astringent, tea is needed, and autumn is white dew". At this time, tea trees grow very well after the intense heat in summer. When it comes to the Millennium solar term, autumn is getting stronger.

Nanjing people love "Bailu tea", which is the tea picked in the Bailu season, also called "Xiaoqiu tea". Bailu tea is not as fresh and tender as spring tea, and it is not as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and clear fragrance, which is deeply loved by some people.

The Millennium is a solar term, and autumn is getting stronger. After all kinds of tempering in spring and summer, it produces a strong but unique sweetness. The old man said that drinking this kind of tea can be beneficial to the body and mind and relieve illness.

4. Drink rice wine:

There has always been a custom of making wine in Zixing Xingning, Sandu and Liaojiang. Every year when the White Dew Festival comes, people here will make wine. If guests come, they will take out their brewed wine to receive them. The wine here is made of glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is warm and slightly sweet, and is called "Bailu rice wine".

5. Eat sweet potatoes:

People think that eating sweet potatoes in Bailu can prevent stomach acid after meals, so in the old days, farmers used to eat sweet potatoes on Bailu Festival. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica said: "Sweet potato can tonify deficiency, strengthen spleen and stimulate appetite, and strengthen kidney yin". Sweet potato has the effects of "tonifying deficiency, invigorating qi, invigorating stomach and strengthening kidney yin", which makes people "live longer and have fewer diseases".