1, eat eggplant

Eat eggplant in the Autumn festival folklore from a legend in the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that after Xu Da, a great general of the Ming Dynasty, knocked down the Yuan Dynasty capital Beipingfu, a soldier under the general Chang Yuchun 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.

2, Hangzhou eat watermelon

Jiangnan area also has the custom of eating watermelon on the day of Autumn. In the past in Hangzhou around the popular food autumn peach. Autumn when adults and children have to eat autumn peach, each person a, eat the core to stay up. Wait until New Year's Eve this day, the peach kernel thrown into the fireplace burned to ashes, people believe that this will be exempted from the plague of the year.

3, Beijing, "stick autumn fat" eat meat

Annual Autumn, according to the old Beijing custom to eat meat, that is, "stick autumn fat". Some of the capital's old meat counter, buy meat products customers will be a long line. Once autumn, although still very hot, and people's bodies no longer wet sticky discomfort, after all, the cool fall is coming. So began to sprout to do something delicious idea to compensate for the deficit since the summer, eat what? The most appetizing is stew! Eating stewed meat to eat the summer body fat back again, so called "stick autumn fat".

4, Shandong to eat "slag"

Shandong Laixi region is popular in the fall to eat "slag", is a kind of soybean foam and vegetables made of small tofu, and "eat the slag of the fall, adults and children are not Eat the fall of the slag, adults and children do not vomit nor pull" of the proverb. So many food customs mostly for the prevention of dysentery, it is clear that China's working people to prevent diarrhea in autumn awareness.

5, Tianjin popular "bite autumn"

Autumn in addition to "stick autumn fat", Tianjin and other places are also popular "bite autumn". People believe that eating melon in the autumn can be exempted from the winter and the coming spring diarrhea. The Qing Dynasty Zhang To's "Jinmen Miscellany - the year customs" has this record: "Autumn when eating melon, said bite autumn, can avoid diarrhea." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melon, steamed eggplant preserved, fragrant glutinous soup, etc. in the yard to dry one night before the beginning of autumn, and ate it on the day of the beginning of autumn, in order to clear the summer heat and avoid diarrhea.

6, Sichuan drink "autumn water"

Sichuan east and west of Sichuan is also popular to drink "autumn water", that is, in the autumn moment, the whole family drink a cup, it is said to eliminate the accumulation of heat, autumn does not have a stomach.

7, Taiwan to eat longan meat

"Taiwan General History - Customs" recorded that in Taiwan in the old days, "one day before the Autumn Festival, the Department of Yu plastic spring cattle, placed outside the eastern suburbs, to the day to Greetings, known as the welcome to spring. Men and women in full costume to see, clothing and fan shadow, and clamor all over the road. Spring bull, children scrambling to touch its ears, or whip its body, that can be blessed. Welcome spring such as the first of the year, especially the shape of the hot, just like a peaceful scene." Autumn is the time for the spawning of standing winged sailfish, small stringers, squid, _ and shrimp in the waters around Taiwan, as well as the blooming of Taiwan longan. It is believed that if you eat the meat of longan, your children and grandchildren will be great officials, and longan is also known as "lucky round", so there is a proverb: eat lucky round to have children and grandchildren in the scholar.

8, Nanjing "gnawing autumn"

This Sunday will usher in the autumn festival, autumn is the third node after the summer solstice. In the old Nanjing Autumn Festival, there is a "nibble autumn" custom, there are some very interesting sayings, such as "eighteen pots after the fall", said that there is a long period of heat after the fall; in addition, about the fall there are male and female autumn points, there are more The "male cool female autumn heat" argument.

9, pork

Pig's head meat delicious, in the folk long reputation, it is said that the Huaiyang cuisine in the "grill burn whole pig's head," the most elaborate fire work, the longest history, is a prestigious dish of Huaiyang. Pork provides humans with high-quality protein and essential fatty acids. Pork can provide hemoglobin and cysteine to promote iron absorption, which can improve iron deficiency anemia.

10, soy sauce elbow

Soy sauce elbow is one of the traditional Chinese food, rich in nutrition, color and flavor. In addition, red steak elbow for the Weifang region's historical dishes, because of its soft, material, fat and not greasy, and rich in nutrients favored by the people. Was named "Shandong famous snacks".

11, roast duck

Peking duck is a waterfowl, delicate meat, good taste, rich in nutrients, contains a large number of unsaturated fatty acids, in the body does not accumulate, the human body can soften the cardiovascular absorption. The skin of this duck contains a large amount of collagen, which is a good product for beauty. Therefore, Peking duck is a health food for young and old alike!

12, burnt mutton

"Burnt mutton" is a famous dish of Beijing Halal Museum Baikui old. "Roast lamb" production, but also applies to other parts of the whole sheep, namely: head, neck, hooves, belly, fat intestines, liver, lungs, heart, even stickers and so on. But the head, hooves, "scorpion" does not need to be fried, such as at the same time on the table that is "roasted whole sheep"