Reasons for eating watermelon in Autumn: Eating watermelon in Autumn has the meaning of "gnawing" off the summer heat.

Eating watermelon in the fall is the meaning of "gnawing on autumn". "Gnawing autumn" from the Republic of China published by Wang Huanhuan wrote the "capital of the record": "the day before the autumn, food watermelon, called gnawing autumn." The meaning is to use watermelon to "gnaw" away the summer heat, "gnaw" down the "autumn tiger", to welcome the cool fall.

Legend has it that one year in the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, many people have scald sores, some people will follow the Luzhou House of Cui Xianggong's daughter eating melon so that the "scald" scars since the story of eating watermelon, the results of the scald sores are really good. Therefore, people eat more watermelon on this day of autumn, to prevent autumn dryness, the formation of customs. So autumn, according to traditional customs are to eat watermelon.

Customs of Autumn Introduction

1, stick autumn fat

Folk popular in the day of Autumn weighing, and the summer when the weight comparison. Autumn wind together, 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, and then there will be less rain in the fall; if the water is heavy after the beginning of autumn, then there will be more rain in the fall, and there is a possibility of forming autumn floods.

3. Autumn Busy Meeting

Autumn Busy Meeting is one of the customs of the Autumn Festival, generally held in July and August of the lunar calendar, is to meet the autumn busy to prepare for the operation of the trade conference, the purpose of which is the exchange of tools of production, the sale of livestock, the exchange of food and daily necessities and so on.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Autumn Festival