Cold dew is the third season of autumn, "the moon season seventy-two wait collection" described: & ldquo; water and soil in the body of moisture condensation as dew, autumn is gold, gold white, white dew color, and the gas began to cold & rdquo;;, so this festival named cold dew. Cold dew to, autumn is thick. Dew is & ldquo; cold dew & rdquo; festival after a unique weather phenomenon. Festival to this, the average temperature gradually cold, the sun is still hot during the day, but the sunlight returns to the mountains, the evening will feel slightly cooler. Among the names of the twenty-four solar terms, cold dew is the most poetic. Many people see these two words, think of the "Poetry" in the first & ldquo; reed reed, white dew for frost. The so-called Iren, in the water side ” masterpiece. As the saying goes & ldquo; Cold Dew Autumn Night, one night cold night & rdquo;, cold dew is a representative of the cooler. "Past the cold dew, long-sleeved shirt sports long pants". As the proverb often says, cold dew body exposed. White dew festival is coming, Nanjing City, white dew festival this custom, are you clear?
1, drink white dew tea
The old time Nanjing people have the custom of drinking white dew tea. From the beginning of the white dew festival to October is a good period of growth of the oil tea tree, because the temperature is getting cold, the evening water vapor in the oil tea tree solidified into dew, this time to harvest & ldquo; white dew tea & rdquo; mellow aroma. Chat again, many other people in the storage of the new tea has been the basis of & ldquo; consume & rdquo; almost, this time the white dew tea is good to pick up. Old Nanjing people are very pro & ldquo; white dew tea & rdquo;. White dew tea and new tea summer tea are not the same. After a summer of hard times, the tea leaves seem to have boiled into the most intense line. White dew tea is not like the new tea that tender, did not soak, are not like summer tea that dry flavor bitter, just have a distinctive mellow flavor. After the cold dew, Nanjing will enter the real autumn, autumn color is pleasant, light winds and clouds, go out on vacation and travel the key period but also gradually began, osmanthus fragrance of the day is also very close.
2, brewing rice wine
Cold dew season has just begun to get, the proverbial cloud: & ldquo; big summer sorghum rice cold dew valley & rdquo;. Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, a small countryside, every year, cold dew arrived, families are using the cereal system of wine, for the reception of guests, often appearing people to cold dew wine brewing sent to the big city to sell. White Dew Wine is made from grains such as millet and sorghum rice, and has a somewhat sweet flavor, hence the name "Cold Dew Wine Brew". Cold dew wine brewing in the classic is & ldquo; Cheng wine & rdquo;, is because of the Cheng River water brewing and famous. In addition to the brewing of cold dew wine brewing water, selected seasonal quite pay attention to, brewing method is also very different. First brewing pure grain wine (also known as & ldquo; soil burning & rdquo;) and rice wine, and then according to the 1:3 ratio of pure grain wine into the lees, altar to drink. If the craft wine, shall be mixed with appropriate grits water (grits with water boiled material), and then into the altar hermetic, buried in the ground or kiln, to be many years or even decades before taking down to eat.
3, eat sugar porridge lotus root
Autumn winds, lotus residual lotus old, underwater lotus root has grown for. White dew festival inside the batch of lotus root just on sale, young lotus root is used by the Nanjing people directly eat raw, mixed with gazpacho or fried food, the older is used to make the Nanjing City specialties — — sugar congee lotus root. Sugar congee lotus root is a food category with a long history. Every two or three o'clock at noon, some of the Qinhuai ancient architectural complex of the ancient alley came out & ldquo; squeak & rdquo; the clapper sound. Then, that & ldquo; sugar porridge lotus root belching & rdquo; yelling, blowing into a household others. So far in the door west of the deep alleys of the old house, still haunted by this intimate yelling. Sugar congee lotus root operation, along with the old city's large-scale modernization and reconstruction, in the day began to become smaller. These people of age, when they hear this yelling, as if recalling that childhood dream. Sugar congee lotus root is cut into pieces and boiled with rice in a pot with the addition of old brown sugar, sweet and thick, very delicious. It is a favorite snack for both the elderly and children. Before the sugar porridge lotus root was sold with a heavy burden, but now it is pushed on a flatbed truck, or pedaled on a tricycle, which is actually still an initial situation. Perhaps it is because of this that the specialty has gained popularity among the people of Qinhuai. Whenever the burden of sugar congee and lotus root rested at the gate, people had to pay two dollars to buy a bowl as if they were obligated to do so. Nowadays, door-to-door publicity sugar congee lotus root vendors have been accompanied by the passage of time and began to extinction, but the non-legacy culture & ldquo; Nanjing publicity & rdquo; but it will be permanently preserved out.
The proverbial cloud: & ldquo; cold dew do not dew body, morning, noon and night to command. ” around the White Dew Festival, although the temperature of the day is still very high, but the night will still be cooler. The average temperature difference between day and night is very large, we should pay attention to the morning and evening plus clothing, sleep can not eat cold and hot. White Dew season diet with pay attention to prevent spring dryness, eat more pungent ingredients such as pear, lily flower, sweet poppy, taro, sago, buckwheat, white fungus, small jujube, etc., but also can be fused to carry out the nourishment of medicinal meals. Friends, what are the customs and habits of your hometown white dew festival ah?
