1, autumn peach
In the Zhejiang area, there is a custom to eat autumn peach on the day of autumn. Every autumn day, everyone has to eat autumn peach, each person a, autumn peach peach eat to peach kernel 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 exempted from the plague for a year!
2, autumn fat
Folk popular in the autumn this day to hanging scales to weigh people, the weight of the summer with the contrast to test the fat and thin, weight loss is called "bitter summer". Because people to summer, there is no appetite, meals are light and simple, two or three months down, most of the weight to reduce a little. At that time, people's judgment of health, often only fat and thin as a standard, thin, of course, need to "make up". Waiting for the autumn wind together, appetite, we have to eat some good, increase a little nutrition, to compensate for the loss of summer, the way to make up for the "autumn fat": in the autumn of this day a variety of meat, stewed meat roast meat braised meat, etc., "to meat fat".
3, drink "autumn water"
Sichuan East and West is also popular to drink "autumn water", that is, in the autumn moment, the whole family drink a cup of water, it is said to eliminate the accumulation of summer heat, the fall does not have a stomach.
4, eat "slag"
Laixi region of Shandong is popular in the autumn to eat "slag", is a kind of soybean foam and greens made of small tofu, and there is a "eat the slag of the autumn, adults and children do not vomit also not pull" of the proverb. So many food customs mostly for the prevention of dysentery, it is clear that China's working people to prevent diarrhea in autumn awareness.
5, nibble autumn
"Nibble autumn" in some places also known as "bite autumn". Tianjin preaching in the autumn this day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat is difficult to endure, 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 think can prevent malaria. City people buy a watermelon home on the day of autumn, the whole family around the nibble, is to nibble the fall. Farmers nibble autumn is much more bold. They are in the shed, in the shade, groups of three to five, sitting on the ground, holding the red flesh watermelon nibble, holding the green flesh melon nibble, holding the white yam nibble, holding the golden corn on the cob nibble. Gnawing on autumn is actually a kind of joy of harvest.
6, eat longan meat
The General History of Taiwan - Customs, recorded in Taiwan in the old days, "one day before the autumn, the Secretary Yu plastic spring cattle, placed outside the eastern suburbs, to the day to Greeting, known as Welcome to Spring. Men and women in full costume to see, clothing and fan shadow, and clamor all over the road. Spring bull, children scrambling to touch its ears, or whip its body, that can be blessed. Welcome spring such as the first of the year, especially the shape of the hot, just like a peaceful scene." Autumn is the spawning period of the standing winged sailfish, small stringers, squid, _, shrimp in the waters around Taiwan, and also the period of abundant production of the Taiwan longan. People believe that if they eat the meat of longan, their children and grandchildren will be great officials, and longan is also known as "lucky round", so there is a proverb: eating lucky round to have children and grandchildren in the scholar.
7, eat eggplant
Eat eggplant in the autumn folklore from a legend of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that after Xu Da, a general of the Ming Dynasty, knocked down the Yuan capital Beipingfu, a soldier under the general Chang Youchun stole a melon from a farmer. Chang Chou Chun was so strict with his soldiers that he wanted to put the soldier to death for stealing the melon. At this time, the farmer came out and said that there was a custom in the Yuan Dynasty that picking up melons in the fall was not considered stealing. When Chang Yuchun heard this, he pardoned the soldier. Unexpectedly, as soon as it was said that those who picked up melons in the fall were not guilty, all the other soldiers started to rob the melons. As a treat for the soldiers, Chang Yuchun found a substitute for the autumn fattening - the only eggplant among the vegetables that had a meaty texture and flavor. Thus, the folk custom of eating eggplant in the first autumn was passed down.