Traditional food:
Brewing Bailu rice wine: Old Nanjing also has the custom of brewing Bailu rice wine, which comes from southern Jiangsu and Zhejiang. In the old society, Bailu went to Jiangsu and Zhejiang rural areas every year, and every family made wine to entertain guests. People often brought Bailu rice wine into the city. Bailu wine is made from glutinous rice, sorghum and other grains, which is slightly sweet, so it is called "Bailu rice wine".
Longan: There is a traditional saying in Fuzhou that "longan must be eaten for thousands of years". Folk means that eating longan on the day of the Millennium has a miraculous effect of greatly supplementing the body. Eating an longan on this day is equivalent to eating a chicken, which sounds too exaggerated. However, longan itself has many functions, such as invigorating qi, invigorating spleen, nourishing blood, calming nerves, moistening skin and caring skin, and can also treat anemia, insomnia, neurasthenia and other diseases.
Bailu tea: Old Nanjing people like Bailu tea very much. At this time, the tea tree has experienced the summer heat, and it is an excellent period for its growth before and after the Millennium. Bailu tea is neither as fresh and tender as spring tea, nor as dry and bitter as summer tea, but it has a unique sweet and mellow taste, which is especially loved by old tea customers.
Braised black-bone white-haired chicken (or duck): There was a custom of White Deer Festival in Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other places. In Cangnan, Pingyang and other places, people collect "ten kinds of whites" (also known as "three kinds of whites") on this day to stew black-bone white-haired chickens (or ducks). It is said that eating it can nourish the body and dispel the atmosphere (arthritis). These "ten kinds of white" are ten kinds of herbs with the word "white", such as hibiscus, white hair bitter and so on, which literally corresponds to "white dew"
Sweet potato: People think that eating sweet potato in the white dew can make the stomach acid disappear after eating shredded sweet potato and rice all the year round, so in the old society, farmers used to eat sweet potato on the white dew festival.
Healthy food:
Lily: Lily not only contains nutrients such as starch, protein, calcium, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, but also contains some special nutrients such as alkaloids such as colchicine.
Soybeans: Soybeans are sweet and flat, and enter the spleen and intestines. Soybean is rich in protein and other nutrients, and is called the king of beans. It is comparable to animal protein in quality, and is beneficial to prevent rickets in children and osteoporosis in the elderly. Soybean is rich in iron, which is easy to absorb. Regular consumption of soybeans can lower human cholesterol.
Sesame: Sesame, also known as flax, is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. Sesame has always been regarded as longevity food, which is rich in protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus and other trace elements, especially iron.
Lotus root: Lotus root is sweet, flat and non-toxic, and enters the heart meridian, spleen meridian and stomach meridian. You can eat it raw or cooked. Lotus root can stimulate appetite and clear away heat, so that blood gas can be well connected; Rich in vitamin C and minerals, it is good for the heart. Suitable for cough due to lung heat, irritability, thirst, loss of appetite, etc.
Tremella fuciformis: Tremella fuciformis is sweet, flat in nature, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. Compared with auricularia auricula, tremella auricula is cool, and its effect of nourishing yin and promoting fluid production is stronger than auricularia auricula. Tremella is a tonic, which can strengthen the spleen, stimulate appetite, invigorate qi, clear the intestines, nourish yin and moisten the lungs. It has certain curative effect on dry mouth, dry throat, dry cough and hemoptysis caused by yin deficiency of lung and stomach.
Citrus: Citrus is warm and sweet, and has the effects of appetizing, regulating qi, quenching thirst and moistening lung. However, people with yin deficiency and excessive fire will have symptoms of getting angry, such as pain in mouth, lips and tongue, dry throat and sore throat.