1, eat watermelon. Many places in our country have the custom of eating watermelon in autumn. Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, to eat watermelon on the day of Autumn, known as nibbling autumn. The Republic of China published the "Capital Zhi" records: "one day before the first day of autumn, food watermelon, called gnawing autumn", the old Nanjing in the first day of autumn, or gnawing watermelon, or gnawing yams and corn on the cob.

2, eat autumn peach. Zhejiang Hangzhou area to the day of the autumn, are the habit of autumn to eat autumn peach, this about eating peaches or special attention to it, it is said to be in order to prevent the plague, to the autumn, we have to eat a peach, and then leave the peach kernel, wait until no one knows when, in the fire to burn it, so that a year will not be sick.

3, eat "slag". Autumn to eat "slag", the so-called "slag" is a popular custom in Shandong called, refers to the end of the beans and vegetables made of small tofu, is a typical coarse grains, in our Chongqing many farmhouse dishes also have this practice, not to speak of, the appearance on the Not a big stage, it is a custom left by the old generation, folklore is also rumored to "eat the slag of the autumn, adults and children do not vomit and do not pull" of the proverb.

4, stick autumn fat. The so-called autumn fat, is a custom passed down in folklore, in the autumn this day to hanging scales weighing people, the weight and the summer when compared to test fat and thin, weight loss called "bitter summer". At that time, people's living conditions were difficult, so the standard to determine whether a person's health is based on purely fat and thin to decide, thin people have to make up, so there is the saying of the autumn fattening.