What should I eat at the autumnal equinox? Remember to eat these seven traditional foods.

The autumnal equinox is the sixteenth solar term in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, which usually lasts from September 22nd to September 24th in the Gregorian calendar every year. This time is a happy day for farmers in China and a harvest season. The autumnal equinox is a solar term that divides autumn equally. On this day, there are also many folk customs, such as laying eggs, offering sacrifices to the gods, eating autumn vegetables, sticking birds' mouths and so on. So, do you know what the autumnal equinox and solar terms eat?

Autumn vegetables

In Lingnan area, the autumn equinox solar terms, Xiejia, Kaipingcang Town, used to be four cities (now Heshan is five cities), and the villagers all went to pick autumn vegetables, mostly light green and slender, about a palm long. In fact, this is a kind of wild amaranth. Picked autumn vegetables are usually boiled with fish fillets at home, which is called "autumn soup". Drinking autumn soup is intended to pray for peace at home and strong health.

Eggs (of hens)

"When the autumnal equinox comes, eggs are beautiful." On this day, many places have the custom of "laying eggs vertically", so after that, they are eaten.

hairy crab

Autumn equinox, crab meat is fat. Crabs have high nutritional value, but they are cold, so don't eat them in large quantities.

tangyuan

On the autumnal equinox, farmers have a holiday according to the custom. Every family should eat jiaozi, and cook a dozen or twenty or thirty unwrapped jiaozi, and put it on the edge of the field with thin bamboo forks, which is called sticky bird's beak.

Taro cake

Old Beijing also has the habit of eating taro cake in the autumn equinox, because taro, a high-calorie food, is soft and easy to digest and suitable for autumn consumption.

river snail

Many places in Guangdong also have the habit of eating snails in the autumn equinox. At this time, the meat of snails is particularly fat.

osmanthus wine

At the autumnal equinox, osmanthus is in full bloom, which is the solar term of osmanthus fragrance. Before the autumnal equinox, industrious people will prepare white wine or yellow wine to soak osmanthus and brew osmanthus wine. As soon as the autumnal equinox solar terms arrive, they will take out their own osmanthus wine to entertain guests.