The beginning of traditional diet in autumn

Every place in beginning of autumn and Jiangsu has the custom of eating watermelon every day, which is called eating autumn. On the other hand, beginning of autumn often eats watermelon for the last time this year. People think that after beginning of autumn, the weather will get cold in the morning and evening, and eating cold food will have an impact on the stomach, so they don't eat watermelon after beginning of autumn.

Eat "good fortune"

Beginning of autumn solar term is the rich period of longan in Taiwan Province. People believe that if you eat longan meat, your descendants will become big officials, and longan is also called "Fuyuan", so there is a saying: if you eat longan, you will have grandchildren.

Eat "slag"

Beginning of autumn is popular in Laixi, Shandong Province to eat "dregs", a kind of small tofu made of tofu and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children don't spit or pull after eating beginning of autumn 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.

Drinking "autumn water" from Sichuan is also very popular in eastern and western Sichuan, that is, at the moment of beginning of autumn, everyone in the whole family drinks a cup, which is said to eliminate the accumulated summer heat, and Qiu Lai will not have a stomachache.

Eating meat "has autumn fat"

Every year in beginning of autumn, according to the custom of old Beijing, we eat meat, which means "pasting autumn fat". In front of some time-honored meat counters in Beijing, customers who buy meat products will queue up. Once in beginning of autumn, although the weather is still very hot, people's bodies are no longer wet. After all, cool autumn is coming. So I began to sprout the idea of making something delicious to make up for the deficit since summer. What should I eat? The most satisfying thing is stew! Eating stew to make up for the fat lost in summer is called "sticking autumn fertilizer"

Eat cold cakes

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.