What does South beginning of autumn eat?

South beginning of autumn eats the following foods:

1. 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.

2, eat longan meat "General History of Taiwan Province Province Customs Records" records, in the old Taiwan Province Province, "The day before beginning of autumn, there was a plastic spring cow, placed outside the eastern suburbs, called the spring cow. Men and women are full of clothes, and the clothes are fragrant and the shadows are loud. Spring cattle crossing the road, children touching their ears or flogging their bodies will be blessed. If the Spring Festival is at the beginning of the year, it will be particularly hot and peaceful. " Beginning of autumn is the production period of swordfish, string, cuttlefish, _ _, shrimp in the waters around Taiwan Province Province, and also the production 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.

3. Eating Watermelon in Hangzhou When I was in beginning of autumn, I had the custom of eating watermelon every day, which was called eating watermelon in autumn. On the same day in beginning of autumn, it is often the last time to eat watermelon this year-people think that after beginning of autumn, the weather will get cold sooner or later, and eating cold food will have an impact on the stomach, so beginning of autumn no longer eats western food.