1, eat watermelon

Tianjin this side of the Autumn will eat on the watermelon, there is a "bite of the autumn" meaning that the summer weather is relatively hot and tormented, but when the arrival of the Autumn temperatures will fall, so on this day must be "Bite" do not let go. And in Jiangsu Autumn to eat watermelon, have "nibble autumn" saying, so that it will not have "prickly heat", there is a meaning of cooling summer heat.

Eating watermelon and shochu at the beginning of autumn in Zhejiang can be a good prevention of malaria, and many people will buy watermelon and eat it together as a family. In the countryside everyone will hold out the watermelon, sit on the ground under the shade of a tree, eat the watermelon and chat about life, looking forward to the harvest scene that will soon bring.

2, eat pork

In the autumn this day there is the saying of the autumn fat, in ancient times in the autumn will weigh their own weight, so as to detect their own than the beginning of summer is fat or thin. We all know that the summer people's appetite will be greatly reduced, this time is not too much want to eat meat, there is no appetite, weekdays can eat fruit, meals are relatively light, so a few months the weight will thus reduce a lot.

In ancient times it is difficult to have fat, so people on the standard of health is to look at fat and thin, thin people will be considered unhealthy people, in the autumn need to supplement meat in a timely manner, after all, at this time the temperature drops, people's appetite will also be better to eat something nutritious, thus making up for the loss of nutrients.

So in the autumn always eat a variety of meat, cooking on the braised meat, or else stewed meat, grilled meat, so as to let themselves grow fat.

Ancient common people's homes are stewed meat to eat, and those who talk about it are eating red stewed meat, or else it is stewed chicken stewed duck stewed fish and so on. Only in the autumn to replenish nutrition, in order to have more strength in the upcoming fall harvest to do farm work, the pressure will thus be reduced.

But today's pork prices are so high that many people are not willing to buy on weekdays, but today's pork sales in the food market increased significantly a lot, it can be seen that many people have the habit of eating pork in the fall ah.

3, eat cake or dumplings

In Shandong Province, Autumn has the habit of eating bakery, "bite autumn" meaning, in the day of Autumn, older people will be in the middle of the hall full of grains and cereals containers, and inserted in the top 3 incense, praying for a good harvest, the autumn harvest can be a better harvest! After everything is done, they make baklava, and the whole family gathers around to eat the baklava.