Autumn festival to eat what traditional food

1, watermelon, although it has been autumn, but the tiger's aftermath is still in the fall, the fall is basically the last time to eat watermelon, can refreshing, cool to.

2, Autumn Peach, Autumn Festival adults and children have to eat a fall peach, and then keep the core, until New Year's Eve when thrown into the charcoal fire burned to be able to remove the plague of the year.

3, eat "slag", which is popular in Sichuan, Shandong eating, with the symbolism of praying for health, "slag" is a kind of soybean foam and vegetables made of small tofu.

4, eat longan, autumn is the period of longan abundance, longan is also known as the fruit of the blessing, eat a symbol of good fortune.

Meaning of Autumn Rising

Rising Autumn is one of the twenty-four seasons, on August 7th, 8th or 9th. In China, the beginning of autumn is regarded as the beginning of autumn. The beginning of autumn signifies that summer is about to pass and autumn is coming. Although it is difficult to get rid of the summer heat for a while, and there will be the aftermath of the "autumn tiger", which is also known as the autumn, the general trend is that the weather is gradually becoming cooler and cooler.

Customs of Autumn

1, sacrificing to the God of the land: Autumn is the season of harvest, the folk have sacrificed to the God of the land, to celebrate the custom of the harvest.

2, gnawing autumn melon: in the south there is the custom of autumn gnawing autumn melon, eat more watermelon on the day of autumn, to prevent autumn dryness, the formation of custom over time.

3, stick autumn fat: popular in the folk in the autumn this day to hanging scales to weigh people, the weight and the beginning of the summer when compared to test fat and thin, weight loss is called bitter summer. At that time, people's judgment of health, often only fat and thin as a standard. The way to make up for this is to put on some fall fat," he said.

The phenomenon of autumn

Some ancient literature divides autumn into three seasons: a cool wind; a white dew; and a cicada chirping. It means that after the autumn, people will feel cool when the wind blows, and the wind at this time is different from the hot wind in summer; then, there will be fog on the ground in the morning, and the cold cicadas will start to chirp in the fall. In fact, in most places, the period from the beginning of autumn to the end of summer is still very hot and muggy, and there is no cool wind, white dew, and cicadas chirping. According to the order of the twenty-four seasons, after the fall, there is also heat, heat is the meaning of the summer, during the period of autumn has not yet out of the summer. The so-called heat in three volts, three volts in the end of the volts is still after the autumn festival.