Diet custom of autumnal equinox

Every autumn equinox solar terms, many people in Lingnan will pick autumn vegetables, that is, wild amaranth. Autumn vegetables and fish fillets are boiled in water, which is called autumn soup for nourishing the stomach.

2, taro

Cooking a large pot of small taro with clear water and eating it with sugar used to be a real day for poor families. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, the pronunciation of taro is similar to that of Yun. Therefore, eating taro in the autumnal equinox is not only to enjoy the food, but also to express the hope of good luck.

3.snails

Many places in Guangdong have the custom of eating snails in the autumn equinox. Around the autumnal equinox, the snail is empty and there is no snail in the abdomen. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails.

4. Tangyuan

On the autumnal equinox, people in some places have the custom of eating glutinous rice balls, which are mainly made of glutinous rice and other ingredients. Farmer friends also need to cook a dozen or twenty or thirty jiaozi without wrapping their hearts, and put them on the ridges of outdoor fields with thin bamboo forks. This is called sticking sparrows' mouths to avoid damaging crops.

4. osmanthus wine

Mid-Autumn Festival is a time when osmanthus flowers are fragrant. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will make Osmanthus Jelly with osmanthus or soak osmanthus wine. No matter Osmanthus Jelly or osmanthus wine, it will give off the unique fragrance of osmanthus.

5, autumn crab

The autumn wind makes the crab's feet itch. "The crabs in Jiangcun are fat when cooked, and their claws are as green as halberds." In the autumn equinox, crab meat is fat. For example, river crab, Jiangsu hairy crab, Shanghai Chongming clear water crab, Hong Kong butter crab and so on. After maturity, they are all full of shells; Sea crabs, such as Portunus Zhoushan, Laizhou, Eriocheir hainanensis and Scylla serrata in Fujian, are fat and sweet.

Phenological characteristics of autumnal equinox

The ancients in China divided the fifteen days of the autumnal equinox into three periods: the first thunder stop; Second, wait for scorpion blank households; Wait for the water to dry.

The ancients believed that thunder was due to strong yang, and yin began to flourish after the autumnal equinox, so there was less thunder. With the cold weather, small insects began to hide in the hole and sealed the hole with fine soil to prevent the cold from invading. At the autumnal equinox, precipitation also began to decrease, and the weather was dry and water evaporated quickly, so the amount of water in rivers and lakes decreased, causing some swamps and puddles to dry up.

According to the standard of climatology, in the "autumnal equinox" season, the average daily temperature in the Yangtze River basin and its northern area drops below 22℃, which is phenological autumn.