1, eat eggplant
Autumn eat eggplant folklore from a legend of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that after the Ming Dynasty general Xu Da knocked down the Yuan 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 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 can 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 old meat counter in the capital, 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" 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 as in the first of the year, especially the shape of the hot, just like a peaceful scene."