"Nibble autumn" is also known as "bite autumn" in some places. Tianjin preaching in the autumn this day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat is difficult to endure, when the autumn, will bite it. If you use the current buzzword, it is called hold. Jiangsu and other places also eat watermelon on the day of autumn to "bite the autumn", it is said that can not be born in the fall prickly heat. In Zhejiang and other places, autumn day to take watermelon and shochu with food habits, folk believe that can prevent malaria.

2, autumn social

Autumn social was originally a day of sacrifice to the gods of the land in autumn, began in the Han Dynasty, later generations will be set in the autumn after the fifth e day. At this time the harvest goal has been accomplished, the government and the people are on this day to sacrifice to the gods to thank. In the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of eating cake, drinking wine, and returning women to their homes.

3, stick autumn fat

Folk popular in the autumn this day to hanging scales to weigh people, the weight and the beginning of summer comparison. Because people to the summer, there is no appetite, meals are light and simple, two or three months down the road, there is usually big trouble: most of the weight to reduce some. Autumn wind together, appetite, want to eat some good, increase a little nutrition, to compensate for the loss of summer, make up for the way is "stick autumn fat": in the autumn this day a variety of meat, stewed meat, roasted meat, braised meat, etc., "to meat fat".