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Eating Longan

Longan fruit around White Dew is big, sweet and tastes great. There is a tradition in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, that eating longan on the first day of White Dew can help nourish the human body. It is said that one longan is as nutritious as an egg. Although this sounds exaggerated, longan does reinforce the spleen, nourish the blood, calm the nerves and improve one's looks.