What are the ways to eat "dregs" in beginning of autumn?

Beginning of autumn is popular in Laixi, Shandong Province to eat "dregs", a kind of small tofu made of chopped beans and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children eat beginning of autumn dregs without spitting or pulling". 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.

There is a saying in Qingdao that "beginning of autumn will be hungry in the spring next year", reminding people to step up farming activities and strive for a bumper harvest of grain and cotton. Because beginning of autumn is mostly in the late June of the lunar calendar, there is a saying "beginning of autumn, beginning of autumn, June 20th". If it is postponed to July, then "beginning of autumn will be closed in July". Beginning of autumn in Qingdao likes rain. As the saying goes, "beginning of autumn, where it rains, there is harvest." Lacey's agricultural proverb says, "If it rains, it will rain, and if it rains, beginning of autumn will have a big meal." People also associate the time of autumn with the climate, saying, "It's cold in beginning of autumn; Autumn night, hot to the end. "

In Shandong, beginning of autumn also has the custom of wrapping jiaozi, which the people call "biting autumn". On the same day in beginning of autumn, elderly people will provide a bowl filled with whole grains in the middle of the hall and put three incense sticks on it to pray for a bumper harvest after beginning of autumn. Most people will chop up meat and wrap it in jiaozi after beginning of autumn, and the whole family will get together to "bite the autumn". Old people like to make a little bit of whole grains into jiaozi, and the first bite indicates that this kind of grain is expected to have a bumper harvest.