1. Eating autumn vegetables

In the Lingnan area, there is a custom of "eating autumn vegetables at the autumnal equinox". Qiucai is a kind of wild amaranth, which the locals call "Qiubi Artemisia". Autumn vegetables are actually a kind of wild amaranth. On the day of the autumnal equinox, people collect autumn vegetables and make soup with fish fillets, which is called "autumn soup".

2. Osmanthus wine

The autumnal equinox is the time when the fragrance of osmanthus blooms. Before the autumnal equinox, hard-working people will prepare white wine or rice wine to soak the osmanthus and make osmanthus wine. Wait until the autumnal equinox As soon as the solar term comes, they take out the home-brewed osmanthus wine to entertain the guests.

3. Eating glutinous rice balls

Eating glutinous rice balls on the day of the autumnal equinox is an indispensable folk custom. When you rub them together, they will become round and round. After eating, the glutinous rice balls will be sweet and warm. After eating the soft and glutinous glutinous rice balls, the unfinished glutinous rice balls are then carefully placed on the ridge of the field outdoors with a thin bamboo fork, which is called "sticky sparrow mouth", which means to prevent sparrows from damaging the crops.

4. Field snails

In many places in Guangdong, there is a custom of eating field snails during the autumnal equinox. Around the autumnal equinox, it is the time when the snails are empty and there are no small snails in the belly. Therefore, the meat is particularly plump and it is the best season to eat snails.

5. Eggs

"The autumnal equinox is here, and the eggs are pretty." Many places in our country have the custom of "standing eggs" on the autumnal equinox. On the autumnal equinox, the earth's axis and the orbital plane of the earth's orbit around the sun are in a state of relative balance of forces, which is conducive to "erecting eggs". After the competition, everyone will eat the eggs.