Jiangnan has the custom of eating watermelon in early fall. Eating fruit in the fall is called "biting the fall". Autumn peaches used to be popular in Hangzhou. When adults and children ate autumn peaches in early fall, each person ate one and kept the kernel after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach kernels were thrown into a furnace and burned to ashes. It was believed that this would save the year from the plague.

In Beijing and Hebei, folk popular "stick autumn fat", eat good food, of course, the first choice of meat, "to meat fat". On this day, the ordinary people eat stewed meat, eat white meat, braised meat, and dumplings, stewed chicken, stewed duck, braised fish and so on.