Autumn equinox solar terms custom food

Custom food of autumnal equinox and solar terms. Autumn vegetables are wild amaranth growing in rural areas. Every autumn equinox, people in many areas will pick autumn vegetables to eat. In Lingnan area, wild amaranth is called "autumn Artemisia" and is usually made into "rolling soup" with fish fillets. Chinese medicine believes that warm food is good for the body and is also a way to "paste autumn fat".

Tangyuan is also a traditional food in the autumn equinox, and people in many areas will eat it on this day. Some places even eat stuffing-free jiaozi, which is called "face bird". Because the autumnal equinox happens to be the autumn harvest season, the rice is ripe, and birds steal it one after another, so people will pinch some stuffing-free jiaozi and put it in the field to "stick the bird's mouth" to prevent birds from destroying crops.

In Beijing and its surrounding areas, there is also the custom of eating taro cakes in the autumn equinox. People think taro is soft and easy to digest, so it is suitable for autumn.

In southern China, the autumnal equinox is the best time to brew osmanthus wine, and many people will brew osmanthus wine at this time. Nowadays, with the development of food industry, homemade osmanthus wine is rare. People are used to going out to buy some homemade osmanthus wine, having a drink or two and chatting with their families.