1, Beijing. Every year in beginning of autumn, according to the custom of old Beijing, meat is eaten, that is, "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 it is still very hot, and people's bodies are no longer wet and sticky, after all, the 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! It is called "sticking autumn fat" to make up the fat lost in summer by eating stew. On this day, ordinary people eat stewed meat, while those who pay attention to it eat boiled meat and braised pork, as well as jiaozi, stewed chicken, stewed duck and braised fish.
2. Nanjing. There is a custom of "gnawing at autumn" in the solar terms of beginning of autumn in old Nanjing, and there are some very interesting sayings, such as "eighteen pots after 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 a saying that "male autumn is cool and female autumn is hot". There is a saying among ordinary people that "there are eighteen pots after autumn". Some people say that the eighteen pots refer to the brazier used to keep warm in winter. It is shaped as a wide-mouth shallow-bottomed iron pot (basin) placed on a square low wooden frame, and the fuel is mostly charcoal or charcoal. It is rare after liberation. It means that there are still more than ten days of hot braziers to bake, and it is still early to really "be crisp in autumn". When it is said that the weather is still hot and it is necessary to take a shower 18 days, this "basin" refers to the bathtub. It also means that it will rain eighteen times after beginning of autumn, and the climate will be really cool. There is a saying that "a rain and a cool after autumn".
3. Hangzhou. There is also the custom of eating watermelon every day in beginning of autumn. Autumn peaches used to be popular in Hangzhou. In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and keep the stones after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach stones are thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. People think that this will save the plague for one year.
4. Tianjin. In addition to "sticking on autumn fat" in beginning of autumn, "biting autumn" is also popular in Tianjin and other places. People believe that eating melons in beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and next spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Tianjin Miscellanies Customs at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "Eating melons and biting autumn in beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed preserved eggplant and fragrant glutinous soup in the yard the day before in beginning of autumn, and ate them in the beginning of autumn, in order to clear away the summer heat and avoid dysentery.
5. Sichuan. It is also popular in the east and west of Sichuan to drink "autumn water", that is, at the moment in beginning of autumn, the whole family will have a drink each, which is said to eliminate the accumulated summer heat, and Qiu Lai will not have a stomachache.
6. Shandong. In Laixi, Shandong Province, it is popular for beginning of autumn to eat "dregs", which is a kind of small tofu made of bean curd and green vegetables, and there is a saying that "adults and children will not vomit or pull if they eat the dregs of beginning of autumn". So many food customs are mostly used to prevent dysentery, which shows that Chinese workers are aware of autumn diarrhea.
7. Taiwan Province. It is recorded in Taiwan Province General History and Customs Records that in the old days of Taiwan Province, "the day before beginning of autumn, there was a spring cow planted in Siyu, which was placed outside the eastern suburbs, and it was called Spring Festival every day. Men and women are full of clothes, clothes are fragrant and shadows are full of noise. When the spring ox crosses the road, children will be blessed if they touch their ears or whip their bodies. If the Spring Festival is at the beginning of the year, it is especially hot and peaceful. " Beginning of autumn was a standing-winged swordfish, string, squid, and squid in the waters around Taiwan Province. The production period of shrimp is also the rich period of longan in Taiwan Province. People believe that if they eat longan meat, their descendants will become big officials, and longan is also called "Fuyuan", so there is a common saying: if they eat longan, their grandchildren will be the best.
The richness of material life makes people pay more attention to diet health and hygiene. Health experts remind that beginning of autumn is just in the season transition, so five principles should be paid attention to during diet health:
1 Don't overeat. In autumn, most people tend to eat too much because of the pleasant climate and abundant food. Excessive calorie intake will turn into fat accumulation and make people fat. In the autumn diet, we should pay attention to the right amount, but not indulge our appetite and eat and drink.
2. Eat less stimulating food. In autumn, you should eat less irritating, spicy and hot foods, such as pointed peppers. In addition, we should also avoid the accumulation of all kinds of damp and hot gas. All foods with spicy smell have the function of emitting, so we advocate eating some spicy food such as celery.
3, the diet should not be too cold. As the weather turns from hot to cold in autumn, the physiological metabolism of human body changes in order to adapt to this change. Pay special attention not to be too cold in diet. Cold food can easily lead to indigestion and various digestive tract diseases.
4, should avoid dry food. The common sense of TCM health care holds that bitter and dry products are easy to hurt body fluid and consume gas. Autumn dryness is in season, the lungs are delicate and dirty, and it is easy to feel the evil of autumn dryness. Many chronic respiratory diseases often recur or get worse in autumn. Therefore, autumn diet should avoid dry foods, such as some fried foods.
5. Be alert to mental illness in autumn. In autumn, when the weather is dry and things are dry, people tend to feel irritable and unstable, which may easily lead to psychological diseases such as depression. We must keep a cheerful disposition, make ourselves happy, communicate with others more, and treat everything calmly. Only in this way can we prevent ourselves from entering the psychological shadow of depression.