Today's Bailu in the four solar terms, do you know what Bailu means? It's getting colder and colder. There are many dews on the ground and leaves in the early morning. This is because the water vapor condenses on it at night, so it's called Bailu. The ancients used four seasons to match five elements. Autumn belongs to gold and is golden and white. Therefore, autumn dew is described as white. When you enter "Bailu", you will feel a little cool at night. What's the best way to eat Bailu solar term? Today's sihai.com has made an inventory of Bailu solar term's diet regimen customs for you. Don't miss it!
Brewed white rice wine
There is also the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine in the old Nanjing of Southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the old days, Bailu rice wine was made in the countryside of Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year to entertain guests. People often brought Bailu rice wine to the city. Bailu rice wine is brewed from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called Bailu rice wine.
Hunan has a custom of drinking rice wine in Bailu. Every year on Bailu Festival, every family treats guests with Bailu rice wine called "local wine", which is sweet, warm and suitable for autumn. The rice wine made from glutinous rice is sweet and fragrant, which is a health preserving product with low alcohol content. Glutinous rice wine can promote the secretion of gastric juice, increase appetite, and help digestion; it can also promote blood circulation, which has certain effect on hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis; for people with blocked meridians, glutinous rice wine also has the effect of activating meridians. You might as well brew a bottle of Bailu yourself.
longan
There is a traditional saying in Fuzhou that "White Dew must eat longan". The folk meaning is that eating longan on Bailu's day has great body tonic effect. Eating a longan on this day is equivalent to eating a chicken, which sounds too exaggerated. However, longan itself has many effects, such as nourishing qi and spleen, nourishing blood and calming nerves, moistening and beautifying skin. It can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and many other diseases. Moreover, before Bailu, longan is big, with small kernel and sweet taste, so Bailu can't eat longan better. Whether it's a real tonic or not, it's a tonic, so people in Fuzhou are used to it 1. Traditional customs.
Bailu tea
Old Nanjing people are very fond of Bailu tea. After the hot summer, Bailu tea is a good time for its growth. Bailu tea is not as fresh and tender as spring tea, not soaked, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but has a unique sweet and mellow fragrance, especially loved by old tea customers. If spring tea drinks the fresh fragrance and light grass flavor, then late autumn tea drinks a strong and mellow flavor. After a summer of suffering, tea seems to have the strongest character in time.
sweet potato
It is believed that eating sweet potato in Bailu can make people eat sweet potato silk and sweet potato silk all year round without stomach acid. Therefore, farmers used to eat sweet potato on Bailu Festival. With the change of climate, we should adjust our diet accordingly. After the White Dew, the temperature difference gradually increases. It is necessary to add clothes in time to prevent cold. In terms of diet, we should have a variety of food, mainly Cereals, and increase some potato food. The dietary fiber of sweet potato can stimulate intestines, enhance intestinal peristalsis, defecate and defecate. It has a good effect on senile constipation and can reduce the occurrence of colon cancer.
Stewed chicken with black bone and white hair
Wenzhou and other places in Zhejiang Province have the custom of Bailu Festival. People in Cangnan, Pingyang and other places gather ten kinds of white on this day (also known as "three kinds of white") to simmer black bone and white hair chicken (or duck), which is said to nourish the body and remove the wind (arthritis) after eating. This "ten kinds of white" is ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter, etc., to correspond with "White Dew" literally.
With the advent of Bailu solar term and the rapid drop of temperature, many places begin to enter the rainy weather mode. At this time, the health care and health preservation of human body should follow the principle of Nourishing Yin, benefiting qi and preventing autumn dryness. Tea, rice wine, longan and sweet potato are all the food of the occasion, and the fresh and unusual Bailu chicken is essential.