1, osmanthus wine
Autumnal equinox, osmanthus have blossomed, it is the fragrance of Dan Gui, before the autumnal equinox, the hard-working people will prepare white wine or yellow wine to soak osmanthus flowers to do osmanthus wine, wait until the autumnal equinox to come to come up with a good osmanthus wine brewed by their own family to entertain the guests.
2, dumplings
Autumn equinox this day, farmers are in accordance with the customary holiday, every family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor fields, the name of the sticky bird's mouth.
Cooked more than ten solid dumplings, placed on a plate to dry. The children of each family put a dumpling on the top of a bamboo pole, carried it to the ground, and then inserted it one by one into the ridge of their own fields. It was hoped that the glutinous rice dumplings would stick to the beak of the bird that stole the food, so that it would be taught a lesson and would not dare to come back in the future.
3, eggs
"Autumn equinox is here, the eggs are pretty". Every year on the autumnal equinox, the folk also have the custom of "vertical egg", many places have to be held on this day "vertical egg" fun games or competitions.
"Egg" of course, after eating eggs, eggs are rich in a variety of vitamins and minerals, a small amount of omega-3 fatty acids, a large number of lecithin, lutein and other health components. Autumn equinox eat eggs, many benefits.
4, duck
After the growth of spring and summer, duck began to become fat, this time the duck fat and thin suitable, tender taste, is the best time to eat duck, and eat duck has the role of dry, the most suitable for autumn consumption of one of the meat dishes.
5, autumn vegetables
"Autumn vegetables" is a kind of wild amaranth, the townspeople called "autumn artemisia". On the day of the autumnal equinox, the whole village went to pick autumn vegetables. When you look for it in the fields, you will see that it is tender and green, thin and about as long as the palm of your hand.
6, wild amaranth
Wild amaranth contains a variety of nutrients. Rich in carotene, vitamin C helps to enhance the body's immune function, improve the body's anti-cancer effect. Fried wild amaranth has heat and detoxification, diuretic, pain relieving, brightening effect, food can enhance the resistance to disease, disease prevention ability, health, less disease, moisturizing and beauty.
7, do the noodle sparrow, eat noodle sparrow
"noodle sparrow" is the glutinous rice flour kneaded into a dough, and then carved with a mold made of a glutinous rice snacks.
It seems to be another good excuse to fight to protect food, and what a lot of reasons for foodies to have been around since the beginning of time.
"In ancient times, the arrival of the autumnal equinox meant that the rice was about to ripen and it would soon be time for a big fall harvest, and the 'three autumns' of harvesting, plowing and planting appeared to be particularly intense.
At this time of the year, there will be many small birds going to the rice paddies to steal the rice and destroy the crops. People will use glutinous rice flour into a ball, with bamboo skewers into a string thrown to the field, the birds ate the surface of the bird's mouth will be sticky, so you can not go to the scourge of the crops. Some sophisticated people will use some bird molds to make different shapes of noodle finches, only now these molds have been lost, and the folklore of making and eating noodle finches at the Autumn Equinox is gradually becoming unknown."
With the harvest just around the corner, waiting for the farm to get busy, it's fun and interesting to make some tasty snacks now.
Make these pastas look like little sparrows and call them.
8, taro cake
Old Beijing has the custom of eating taro cake on the autumnal equinox, because taro, this high-calorie food is warm and soft and easy to digest, suitable for consumption in the fall. Taro's nutritional value is very high, the starch content in the tubers up to 70%, both as food, but also to do vegetables, is suitable for both young and old tonic, autumn supplement vegetarian a treasure. Taro is also rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, niacin, vitamin C, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, saponin and other nutrients.
What is the Autumn Equinox
The Autumn Equinox is the sixteenth of the twenty-four solar terms, and the time is generally September 22-24 on the Gregorian calendar each year. Autumn equinox day the sun reaches 180 ° longitude (the autumnal equinox), almost directly to the Earth's equator, the day and night around the globe is equal (not taking into account the atmospheric refraction of sunlight and morning and evening shadows). In ancient times, it was said that "the sun was sacrificed in spring and the moon in autumn", and the autumn equinox was once a traditional "moon festival". Now the Mid-Autumn Festival is from the traditional "moon festival".