Autumn does not enter autumn, and after the sky is cool and white dew, it is only after the white dew season that the mainland has truly entered autumn. After autumn, people inevitably pay more attention to the topic of health and hardiness, and most of the folklore of Bailu is also related to diet, and it is not uniform from place to place, and it varies greatly.
It turns out that on the day of Bailu, it is really "eating white"! Zhejiang folk pay attention to eating "ten kinds of white", including white peony, white shi, white art, white lentils, white lotus, white grass root, white yam, lily, white poria, and white ginseng.
At first glance, it is basically all medicinal herbs, and I refuse to eat it in vain! It also has to be combined with another custom of eating "white duck", where medicinal herbs are stewed with Muscovy duck to make a rich soup, which is the preferred ingredient for sticking autumn fat for the family.
Some places also call Muscovy duck together with lilies, silver fungus, white radish, and tofu "five whites", which are much easier to accept than medicinal herbs, and most of them play a role in clearing heat and moisturizing, harmonizing and smoothing qi.
However, there are several solar terms diets that are a bit of "fighting poison with poison". Eating longan in Fujian is before and after white dew, saying that the heat dissipates at this time, eating some longan in moderation can replenish blood and spleen, warm and nourishing, you can also make tea, sweet water, porridge, soup, etc., changing our view of longan eating more on fire in the past.
Coincidentally, in Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, people make rice wine from newly harvested grains such as sorghum and glutinous rice, and sometimes pick osmanthus flowers to add to the wine, which has a special taste of autumn. Drinking rice wine is also a warm food, nourishing the stomach and spleen, and driving away coldness.
In addition, things like white dew tea, white dew chicken, eel, winter dates, walnuts, etc., are all seasonal diets. This is not only the objective influence of the natural geographical environment, but also the subjective factors of human choice, no matter what kind of dietary customs, it is the life wisdom explored by the ancestors for better survival, which is worth cherishing and thanking now.