Autumn equinox in the north to eat: autumn vegetables, taro cake, eggs, duck meat and dumplings.

1, Autumn Vegetables

On the day of the Autumn Equinox, most people in the north will go to the field to look for some green autumn vegetables about the length of a palm. This is a wild amaranth. It is usually found by the northerners and cooked in soup with fish.

2, taro cake

Old Beijing also has the habit of eating taro cake on the autumn equinox, because taro, a high-calorie food is warm and soft and easy to digest, suitable for consumption in the fall. Taro's nutritional value is very high, the starch content in the tubers up to 70%, both as food, but also to do vegetables, autumn complementary vegetarian a treasure.

3, eggs

Annual autumnal equinox, folk also have "vertical egg" custom, many places have to be held on this day vertical egg fun games or competitions, vertical eggs, of course, after the egg is not to be missed to eat eggs.

4, duck

Duck is rich in nutrients, duck raised to the fall, the meat is strong, tender and fat, nutrient-rich, and in a timely manner to supplement the body's essential proteins, vitamins and minerals. The dry season is most suitable for eating duck.

5, dumplings

Autumn equinox this day, every family to eat dumplings, boiled more than ten solid dumplings, placed on a plate to dry. Cutting bamboo with leaves from the bamboo forest, the children of each family poke a dumpling on the top of a bamboo pole, carry it to the ground, and then insert it one by one into the ridge of their own fields. I hope that the glutinous rice made of soup dumplings can stick to the mouth of the bird that steals food, so that it will be taught a lesson and will not dare to come back in the future.