1, eat autumn peach
Peach is rich in iron, there is a certain effect of blood. Jiangnan area has the custom of eating autumn peaches on the day of Autumn. Autumn adults and children have to eat autumn peaches, each one, eat the core to stay up. Wait until New Year's Eve this day, the peach kernel thrown into the fireplace and burned to ashes, people believe that this can be exempted from the plague of the year.
2, eat watermelon
In the South, there is "Autumn gnawing autumn melon" custom, in the autumn of the day to eat more watermelon, to prevent autumn dryness, the formation of custom over time. The Republic of China published the "capital of the record": "the day before the autumn, food watermelon, known as gnawing autumn." Also has the meaning of welcoming the arrival of autumn.
3, eat "slag"
Shandong Laixi region popular Autumn eat "slag", a kind of soybean and green vegetables made of small tofu, and there are "eat the slag of Autumn, adults and children do not vomit also do not pull! and there is a saying that "if you eat the dregs of autumn, adults and children will not vomit or have diarrhea". Autumn is a period of high incidence of gastrointestinal diseases, many regional folklore with the cure and pray for a year of health. Sichuan and Shandong are typical representatives of this type of folklore.
4, dumplings
Autumn, of course, to "grab the fat" dumplings. Dumplings are a very popular food. Eating dumplings on the first day of Autumn is called "grabbing the fat", you grab a dumpling for me, I grab a dumpling for you, and people believe that this can make their bodies strong.
5, eat small red beans
From the Tang and Song dynasties, there are in the autumn, must be served with well water small red beans custom. Take seven to fourteen small red beans, well water to swallow, serve to face west, so it is said to be an autumn without dysentery. Folk have in the Autumn divination weather hot and cold custom. The Eastern Han Dynasty Cui Banquet, "Four People's Monthly Orders": "Toward the beginning of autumn, chilly; night autumn, hot to the head."
6, eat eggs
In addition, on the day of Autumn, in other parts of China there are eating eggs, peaches and other customs. Eggs, flat in nature, replenish qi deficiency, have the function of tranquilizing the mind and nourishing the heart.
7, eat "lucky round"
The autumn season is the Taiwan longan season. People believe that eating longan meat, grandchildren will be a big official, and longan is also known as "Fuyuan", so there is a proverb: eat Fuyuan children and grandchildren in the scholar.
8, eat eggplant
Eat eggplant in the autumn folklore from a legend of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that after Xu Da, a general of the Ming Dynasty, knocked down the Yuan capital Beipingfu, a soldier under the general Chang Youchun stole a melon from a farmer. Chang Chou Chun was so strict with his soldiers that he wanted to put the soldier to death for stealing the melon. At this time, the farmer came out and said that there was a custom in the Yuan Dynasty that picking up melons in the fall was not considered stealing. When Chang Yuchun heard this, he pardoned the soldier. Unexpectedly, as soon as it was said that those who picked up melons in the fall were not guilty, all the other soldiers started to rob the melons. As a treat for the soldiers, Chang Yuchun found a substitute for the autumn fattening - the only eggplant among the vegetables that had a meaty texture and flavor. Thus, the folk custom of eating eggplants in autumn was passed down.
9, eat cool cake
In the hearts of Jinhua citizens, Autumn eat watermelon, eat cool cake is an essential traditional custom. What is cool cake? Is to use sweet potato starch boiled into a soup, poured in a bowl. To be the next morning, the knot into a whole piece. It looks like a round and clear white jade from afar, then cut into small pieces and sprinkled with sugar, vinegar and mint, it is cool and refreshing, sweet and sour and appetizing.
10, drink "autumn water"
Sichuan East and West is also popular to drink "autumn water", that is, at the moment of autumn, the whole family drink a cup, it is said to eliminate the accumulation of heat, autumn does not have a stomach.
Autumn customs and activities
1, stick autumn fat
The folk popular in the autumn this day weighing, and the summer when the weight comparison. With the autumn wind, appetite, want to eat some good, to compensate for the loss of summer. The way to make up for this is to "put on the autumn fat": eat thick food, of course, the first choice to eat meat, the so-called "meat fat".
2, weighing water
Old times, the people were in the same size container filled with water before and after the fall, and then weighed. If the water is heavy before the beginning of autumn, it indicates that the water is heavy, then the rain is less in the fall; if the water is heavy after the beginning of autumn, then the rain is more in the fall, and there is a possibility of the formation of autumn floods.
3, Autumn Busy Club
Autumn Busy Club is one of the customs of the Autumn Festival, generally held in July and August of the lunar calendar, in order to meet the Autumn Busy to prepare for the operation of the General Assembly trade, the purpose of which is to exchange tools of production, the sale of livestock, the exchange of food and daily necessities, and so on.
4, hanging scales weighing people
The Qing Dynasty, then popular in Jiaxing on this day to hanging scales weighing children, and then the weight of the weight and the beginning of the summer compared to the test of fat and thin, weight loss is called called "bitter summer". At that time, people believe that since the thin need to "make up", which is also commonly known as "autumn fat" in the autumn.
5, loach
Wuxi people also have an interesting saying, is the day of the fall to meet the loach. If there are heavy winds and rain in the fall, the loach in the rice paddies on the day of autumn will be in the water straight.