There is a custom of eating watermelon in early autumn in Jiangnan. Eating fruits at the beginning of autumn is called "biting autumn". Autumn peaches were popular in Hangzhou in the past. When adults and children eat autumn peaches in early autumn, each person eats one peach and keeps the core after eating. Wait until New Year's Eve, throw the peach core into the stove and burn it to ashes. It was thought that this would save a year from the plague.

In Beijing and Hebei, it is popular among the people to "paste autumn fat". When eating delicious food, meat is of course the first choice, "sticking fat with meat". On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, especially white-cut meat, braised pork, dumplings, stewed chicken, stewed duck, braised fish, etc.