Traditional food for the fall equinox: eating autumn vegetables, eating snails, eating celery.

1, eat autumn vegetables

In the Lingnan region, there is "autumn equinox eat autumn vegetables" custom. Autumn vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, country people called "autumn artemisia". Autumn vegetables is actually a wild amaranth, on the day of the autumnal equinox, people get autumn vegetables and fish "rolling soup", the name is "autumn soup".

2, eat snails

In many places in Guangdong, the autumnal equinox and the custom of eating snails. Around the autumnal equinox, the snail is empty, no small snails in the abdomen. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, is the best season to eat snails.

3, eat celery

Celery is crisp and refreshing to eat more vegetables in the autumn equinox, celery is rich in nutrients, containing up to more than twenty kinds of nutrients, of which iron content is more than twenty times that of the tomato, and celery water content of up to 94%.

Customs of the Autumn Equinox

1, Autumn Moon Festival

The Autumn Equinox was traditionally a "Moon Festival". In ancient times, there was a "spring festival of the sun, autumn festival of the moon". According to evidence, the original "Moon Festival" is set in the "Autumn Equinox" this day, but because of this day in the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year on different days, may not always have a full moon. The moon festival without the moon would be a great deal of fun. Therefore, later the "moon festival" from the "autumn equinox" to the mid-autumn festival.

2, vertical egg

"Autumn equinox to, the egg is pretty". On the day of the spring or fall equinox every year, many places in China will have tens of millions of people in the "vertical egg" test. Choose a "body size" of the fresh eggs, gently and gently on the table, although many failures, successes are also many, erected up the egg is not beautiful.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - celery