2, eat autumn peaches, beginning of autumn adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and leave the pit after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach pit was thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. It is thought that this will save the plague for a year.
3. Eating a cool cake. In the hearts of Jinhua citizens, eating watermelon and cake is an indispensable traditional custom in beginning of autumn. What is a cool cake? Is to boil sweet potato starch into soup and pour it into a bowl. Stay the next morning and form a whole piece. From a distance, it looks like a round and transparent white jade, then it is cut into small pieces and sprinkled with white sugar, vinegar and mint to make it cool, sweet and sour.
4, eat "Fuyuan", beginning of autumn solar terms is the rich period of longan in Taiwan Province Province. People believe that after eating longan meat, future generations will become big officials, and longan is also called "Fuyuan", so there is a saying: after eating longan, future generations will be the best.
5, eat red beans, since the Tang and Song Dynasties, to beginning of autumn, there is the custom of eating red beans with well water. Take seven to fourteen small red beans and swallow them with well water, facing west when taking them, so it is said that dysentery can be avoided in autumn.
6. It is popular to eat "slag" in Laixi, Shandong. Beginning of autumn eats "dregs", a kind of small tofu made of minced beans and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children don't spit or pull after eating beginning of autumn's dregs". Autumn is the high incidence period of gastrointestinal diseases, and folk customs in many areas have the meaning of treating diseases and praying for blessings for one year. Sichuan and Shandong are typical representatives of this folk custom.