Autumn eat eggplant folklore from a Ming Dynasty legend. Legend has it that after Xu Da, a great general of the Ming Dynasty, knocked down the Yuan Dynasty 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 the melon picker was not guilty of stealing in the fall, all the other soldiers started to rob the melon. 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, Nanjing "gnawing autumn"

This Sunday will usher in the autumn festival, autumn is the third node after the summer solstice. In the old Nanjing Autumn Festival, there are "chewing autumn" custom, there are some very interesting sayings, such as "eighteen pots after the fall", said after the fall there is a long time after the heat; in addition, about the fall there is a male and female autumn points, there are more The "male cool female autumn heat" argument.

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! Eat stewed meat to eat the summer body fat back again, so called "stick autumn fat".