Autumn day according to the different customs of different places will eat different foods.

1, stick autumn fat - eat meat

The folk popularity of the day in the autumn weighing, and the summer weight comparison. Autumn wind - up, mouth wide open, want to eat some good, to compensate for the loss of summer. The way to make up for this is to "put on the autumn fat": eat thick food, of course, the first choice to eat meat, the so-called "to meat fat".

2, nibble autumn - eat melon

Nibble autumn, also known as the bite of autumn, the Han Chinese custom of the year. That is to eat melon on the day of Autumn. Tianjin preaching in the autumn this day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat, the heat is difficult to get through, when the autumn, will be bitten. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon on the day of autumn to "bite the autumn", it is said that can not be born in the fall prickly heat. In Zhejiang and other places, autumn day to take watermelon and shochu with food, folk believe that can prevent malaria.

3, eat "dregs" - tofu

Shandong, Sichuan and other areas popular in the fall to eat "dregs" a

4, eat autumn peach

Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, around the custom of eating autumn peach on the first day of autumn. Every autumn day, everyone has to eat autumn peach, each person a, peach to eat the peach core to stay hidden. Wait until New Year's Eve, unknown to the peach kernel thrown into the fireplace burned to ashes, people believe that this will be exempt from the plague of the year.

5, eat "lucky round"

The Autumn Festival is the peak season of Taiwan longan. People believe that if you eat longan meat, your children and grandchildren will be a great official, and the eye is also known as "lucky round", so there is a proverb: eat lucky round to have children and grandchildren in the scholar.

6, eat small red beans

From the Tang and Song dynasties, there are in the autumn, must be served with well water to eat small beans custom. Take seven to fourteen small short, well water to swallow, serve to face west, so it is said to be a fall without dysentery.