Traditional delicacies during the autumnal equinox: eating autumn vegetables, eating snails, and eating celery.

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. Eating snails

In many places in Guangdong, there is also the custom of eating 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.

3. Eat celery

Crisp and refreshing celery is a vegetable that should be eaten more during the autumnal equinox. Celery is rich in nutrients and contains more than 20 kinds of nutrients, including iron content. It is twenty times that of tomatoes, and the moisture content of celery is as high as 94%.

Customs of the Autumn Equinox

1. Autumn Festival to the Moon

The Autumnal Equinox was once a traditional "Moon Festival". As in ancient times, there was a saying that "spring offers sacrifices to the sun and autumn offers sacrifices to the moon." According to research, the "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was originally set on the day of the "Autumnal Equinox", but because this day falls on a different day in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year, there may not necessarily be a full moon. But worshiping the moon without the moon is a great disgrace to the scenery. Therefore, the "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was later moved from the "Autumnal Equinox" to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Standing eggs

"The autumnal equinox is here, and the eggs are pretty." On the spring or autumnal equinox every year, tens of millions of people in many parts of our country do the "egg erection" experiment. Choose a "well-proportioned" fresh egg and put it upright on the table gently. Although there are many losers, there are also many winners. The erect egg is very beautiful.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Celery