Beginning of autumn is a must-have food in the north and south.

What did beginning of autumn eat that day? This is a must-have food in early autumn.

South:

1, eat Jiangnan autumn peach

There is also a saying of eating autumn peaches in beginning of autumn, which is mainly the custom of Jiangnan generation. Peaches are rich in iron and have certain blood-enriching effects. In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and keep the stone after eating. Wait until New Year's Eve, throw the peach stones into the stove and burn them to ashes, thinking that this will save a year's plague.

2. Eating longan in Taiwan Province Province

On the occasion of beginning of autumn, swordfish, string, squid and squid appeared in the waters near Taiwan Province Province. The production period of shrimp is also 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.

3. Nanjing "gnawing autumn"

Beginning of autumn solar term will be ushered in this Sunday, and beginning of autumn is the third node after the summer solstice. There is a custom of "gnawing at autumn" in beginning of autumn solar terms in old Nanjing, and there are some very interesting sayings, such as "the last 18 pots in beginning of autumn", which means that there is still a long period of heat after beginning of autumn; In addition, there is a distinction between autumn for men and autumn for women in beginning of autumn, and there is a saying that autumn is cool for men and hot for women.

4. Jinhua eats cold cakes

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.

North:

1, Beijing "sticky autumn fertilizer" eats meat

Every year in beginning of autumn, according to the custom of old Beijing, we eat meat, which means "pasting autumn fat". In front of some time-honored meat counters in Beijing, customers who buy meat products will queue up. Once in beginning of autumn, although the weather is still very hot, people's bodies are no longer wet. After all, cool autumn is coming. So I began to sprout the idea of making something delicious to make up for the deficit since summer. What should I eat? The most satisfying thing is stew! Eating stew to make up for the fat lost in summer is called "sticking autumn fertilizer"

2. Shandong eats "slag"

In Laixi, Shandong Province, beginning of autumn is popular to eat "dregs", which is a kind of small tofu made of tofu and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children don't spit or pull after eating beginning of autumn dregs". So many dietary customs are mostly aimed at preventing dysentery, which shows that workers in China are aware of autumn diarrhea.

3. Autumn bite is popular in Tianjin.

In addition to beginning of autumn's "sticking autumn fertilizer", Tianjin and other places are also popular with "biting autumn". People believe that eating melons in early autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Customs of Tianjin Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea by eating melons and biting autumn." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed eggplants and fragrant soup in the yard the day before in beginning of autumn, and ate them in beginning of autumn to remove the heat in summer and avoid dysentery.

4. Drink millet porridge in Shanxi

Shanxi millet is the best in the world, haha, especially Guangling millet is better. Every time I go to beginning of autumn, Shanxi people like to cook millet porridge for their families. Because millet porridge nourishes the stomach, they have a bad appetite in summer, and they can't eat big fish and big meat right away, so they drink a bowl of millet porridge to nourish the stomach and alleviate the harm caused by summer.