The custom of eating eggplant in beginning of autumn comes from a legend in Ming Dynasty. It is said that one of the soldiers under General Chang Yuchun stole a cantaloupe from a farmer after Xu Da, the general of Ming Dynasty, laid down Beiping House, the capital of Yuan Dynasty. Chang Yuchun is very strict with soldiers, and soldiers who steal melons should be put to death. At this time, the peasants came out and said that there was a custom in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was not stealing for beginning of autumn to pick melons. Chang Yuchun pardoned the soldiers. Unexpectedly, as soon as the melon pickers in beginning of autumn were innocent, other soldiers began to snatch melons. In order to reward soldiers, Chang Yuchun found a substitute for autumn fertilizer-the only eggplant with meat and meat flavor among vegetables. Therefore, the custom of eating eggplant in beginning of autumn has been passed down.

2. Eat watermelon in Hangzhou

In early autumn, there is also the custom of eating watermelon every day. Autumn peaches used to be very popular in Hangzhou. In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and keep the stone after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach pit was thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. It is thought that this will save the plague for a year.

3, Beijing "paste autumn fat" to eat meat

Every year in beginning of autumn, according to the custom of old Beijing, we eat meat, which means "pasting autumn fat". In front of some time-honored meat counters in Beijing, customers who buy meat products will queue up. Once in beginning of autumn, although the weather is still very hot, people's bodies are no longer wet. After all, cool autumn is coming. So I began to sprout the idea of making something delicious to make up for the deficit since summer. What should I eat? The most satisfying thing is stew! Eating stew to make up for the fat lost in summer is called "sticking autumn fertilizer"

4. Shandong eats "slag"

In Laixi, Shandong Province, beginning of autumn is popular to eat "dregs", which is a kind of small tofu made of tofu and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children don't spit or pull after eating beginning of autumn dregs". So many dietary customs are mostly aimed at preventing dysentery, which shows that workers in China are aware of autumn diarrhea.

5. Autumn biting is popular in Tianjin.

In addition to beginning of autumn's "sticking autumn fertilizer", Tianjin and other places are also popular with "biting autumn". People believe that eating melons in early autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Customs of Tianjin Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea by eating melons and biting autumn." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed eggplants and fragrant soup in the yard the day before in beginning of autumn, and ate them in beginning of autumn to remove the heat in summer and avoid dysentery.

6. Sichuan drinks "autumn water"

It is also popular to drink "autumn water" in the east and west of Sichuan, that is, at that moment in beginning of autumn, everyone in the whole family will have a drink. It is said that this can eliminate the accumulated summer heat and Qiu Lai will not have a stomachache.

7. Taiwan Province Province eats longan meat.

It is recorded in the General History and Customs Records of Taiwan Province Province that the spring cattle were planted in beginning of autumn the day before in the old Taiwan Province Province, and placed outside the eastern suburbs, which was called the spring cattle. Men and women are full of clothes, and the clothes are fragrant and the shadows are loud. Spring cattle crossing the road, children touching their ears or flogging their bodies will be blessed. If the Spring Festival is at the beginning of the year, it will be particularly hot and peaceful. " On the occasion of beginning of autumn, swordfish, string, squid and squid appeared in the waters near Taiwan Province Province. The production period of shrimp is also the rich period of longan in Taiwan Province Province. People believe that after eating longan meat, future generations will become big officials, and longan is also called "Fuyuan", so there is a saying: after eating longan, future generations will be the best.

8. Nanjing "gnawing autumn"

Beginning of autumn solar term will be ushered in this Sunday, and beginning of autumn is the third node after the summer solstice. There is a custom of "gnawing at autumn" in beginning of autumn solar terms in old Nanjing, and there are some very interesting sayings, such as "the last 18 pots in beginning of autumn", which means that there is still a long period of heat after beginning of autumn; In addition, there is a distinction between male autumn and female autumn in beginning of autumn, and there is even a saying that "male autumn is cool and female autumn is hot"