1, autumn vegetables

In the autumn equinox, many people in the Lingnan region will go to pick autumn vegetables, that is, wild amaranth. The autumn vegetables and fish "soup", called stomach "autumn soup".

2, taro

With water to cook a pot of small taro sticky sugar to eat, is the past poor people's real days. In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang belt, taro pronunciation is similar to shipping. Therefore, eating taro at the time of the fall equinox is not only to enjoy good fortune, but also to express the hope that good luck will come again and again.

3, snails

Many places in Guangdong, autumn equinox has the habit 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 time to eat snails.

4, dumplings

Autumn equinox this day, some local folk have eaten dumplings custom, dumplings made of glutinous rice as the main raw material and some other ingredients. Farmers and friends also do not have to wrap the heart of the soup dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field edge of the ground, the name of the sticky bird mouth, lest the birds come to destroy the crops.

4, osmanthus wine

Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when the fragrance of osmanthus, the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will use osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus cake or soak osmanthus wine, whether osmanthus cake or osmanthus wine are all exceptions to the unique fragrance of osmanthus.

5, autumn crab

Autumn winds itchy crab feet, "rice ripe river village crab is fat, two chelangs such as halberd quite green mud", the autumn equinox, crab meat is fat. For example, river crabs, Jiangsu hairy crabs, Shanghai Chongming clear water crab, Hong Kong butter crab, etc., ripe crab yolk full of shells; sea crabs, such as Zhoushan pike crabs, Laizhou crab, Hainan safflower crabs and Fujian saw edge blue crab, etc., meat, sweet taste.

Autumn equinox characteristics

China's ancient people will be the autumn equinox fifteen days divided into three waiting: one waiting for the thunder began to close the sound; the second waiting for the stinging insects billet home; the third waiting for the water began to dry up.

The ancients believed that the thunder is because of the yang qi sound, after the autumn equinox yin qi began to flourish, so the phenomenon of thunder is less. As the weather gets colder, dormant insects begin to hide in their burrows and seal the openings with fine soil to prevent the cold from intruding. Precipitation also begins to decrease during the fall equinox, and the weather dries out and water evaporates quickly, so the amount of water in rivers and lakes decreases, so that some swamps and puddles dry up.

According to climatological standards, "Autumn Equinox" season, China's Yangtze River Basin and the vast area to the north, the average daily temperature has fallen to below 22 ℃, for the climate of the fall.