Beginning of autumn eats the following five traditional foods.

1, eating watermelon, there is a custom of eating watermelon every day in beginning of autumn and Anhui, which is called eating autumn. This day in beginning of autumn is often the last time to eat watermelon 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 stopped eating watermelon after beginning of autumn.

2. Eat autumn peaches. In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and leave stones after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach pit was thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. It is thought that this will save the plague for a year.

3. 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.

4, eat "Fuyuan", beginning of autumn solar terms is the rich 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.

5, eat jiaozi, beginning of autumn, Anhui, of course, to "grab the autumn fat" package jiaozi (eating cucumbers will get thinner and thinner, eating eggplant will get fatter and fatter).