What are the festive customs of Autumn?

Liqiu is the beginning of autumn, after a long hot summer, people have an appetite, so Liqiu folk customs are mostly related to eat.

1. Dumplings, slag, eggplant cake in many areas of the Shandong Peninsula, the day of the Autumn Festival at noon often eat dumplings or noodles, Zhaoyuan, Longkou, said "into the dumplings into the face of the Autumn Festival," Changdao, Laiyang, Haiyang, and other places on the contrary, said the "Autumn Festival of dumplings into the face of the Autumn Festival! "The opposite is true in Changdao, Laiyang and Haiyang. In Shandong Zhucheng and Laixi area, eat a kind of soybean and vegetables made of small tofu, commonly known as "slag". Local folk proverb:

"Eat the dregs of the autumn, adults and children do not vomit nor pull." Said to have the effect of preventing gastrointestinal diseases. In Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, autumn day with eggplant and flour to do eggplant cake.

2. Gnawing autumn city people buy a watermelon home on the day of autumn, a family around the gnawing, called gnawing autumn. The rural people of the nibble fall is much more bold. They are in the shed, in the shade, a group of three or five, sitting on the ground, holding the red flesh watermelon eating, holding the green flesh melon eating, holding the white yam chewing, holding the golden corn on the cob chewing. The autumn is the expression of the farmers' joy of the harvest.

Nibbling on the fall in some places is also known as "bite the fall". Tianjin preaching in the moment of autumn to eat watermelon or melon, it is said to be able to avoid diarrhea, said "bite autumn", heralding the hot summer is intolerable, suddenly met with the autumn, to bite it. Jiangsu people also eat watermelon in the moment of autumn to "bite the autumn", that can not long fall prickly heat. In jiangsu wuxi, zhejiang wuqing, autumn day to take watermelon and shaoxing wine to eat, that can prevent malaria dysentery. Beijing people have "spring eat radish autumn eat melon" custom, parents must be in the day of autumn to buy a melon for the child to eat, and said to the child: "eat a melon, after the autumn good fat roll melon round." Local "early melon, late watermelon" proverb, because the melon of autumn to eat early, so eat more melon (also known as melon, began in early summer, finally late fall, taste sweet, eat to be able to unctuous). In Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, in the autumn day, some women eat an autumn peach; Zhejiang Shuanglin people love to eat Ling lotus root, melons and other fruits.

3. Wear rowan leaves on the day of Autumn Rowan leaf custom has a long history, the Song Dynasty Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Dreaming Records" and Wu Zimu's "Dreaming Sorghum Records" in the Autumn Rowan leaves are sold everywhere, the women will be cut into a variety of pattern insertion wear records. Until now, there is still a folk custom of wearing rowan leaves on the first day of autumn. In Shandong, it is said that on the day of Autumn, there must be one or two pieces of rowan leaves fall, indicating the arrival of Autumn. Women and children in Jiaodong and southwestern Lu collected rowan leaves or tung leaves on this day, cut into various patterns, or inserted in the temples, or wear on the chest, to respond to the festival. In the rural areas near Zhengzhou, Henan Province, men and women wear rowan leaves on the day of Autumn, or cut petals with heather red leaves, hairpin inserted sideburns.

Rowan leaf-related festivals, in Shandong, some people in the autumn just before dawn when the collection of rowan leaves boiling cream, called "rowan leaf paste", said to be used to compress hemorrhoids have special therapeutic effects.

4. purging autumn in zhejiang tinghai, the day of autumn, children eat polygonum qu (commonly known as "white medicine"), lysophila, known as "purging autumn", that can go to stagnation. In zhejiang zhoushan, is to give children eat radish, fried rice noodles and other food, to prevent food accumulation. In zhenhai, zhejiang fenghua, give children drink mung bean porridge, serving wine, called "purging autumn", that children eat fast and strong growth.

5. Autumn fat in many places in the autumn this day to hanging scales weighing people's customs, the weight at this time with the summer when compared. Because in the heat of summer, people would have no appetite, meals light-based, two or three months down, most of the weight to be a little lighter. Autumn wind together, have an appetite, want to eat some good, supplement a little nutrition, to compensate for the loss of summer. The way to make up is to "stick autumn fat": in the autumn this day to eat a variety of practices of meat, such as stewed meat, roasted meat, braised meat, etc., "to meat fat".

6. Drinking water Qingdao in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there is the autumn drink "new water" custom. The so-called "new water", that is, just from the well, "fresh water". It is said that this not only can avoid prickly heat, but also can prevent dysentery. In Ya'an, Sichuan Province, the well water will be put in the sun to dry after the family to drink together to avoid malaria dysentery.

Sanhe in Sichuan, "is said to be a cup of water in the first quarter of autumn, the heat is eliminated, the fall no intestinal leakage of the disease."

Qihuang family also said: "Serving a dose of clear heat is even better."

7. Red beans "make up for the fall off the stock"

Some places the custom is to serve seven red beans with water on the day of autumn, that can avoid malaria. Zhengzhou, Henan Province, known as "malaria Dan". Zhejiang region, more well water to swallow. In Zhenxiong, Yunnan, "the first bag of red beans into the bottom of the well, removed in a timely manner, men, women, children and old people swallowed a few grains of water, drink a raw water, thought you can not suffer from dysentery. Later, with five-color or seven-color cloth, cut into large and small different squares, wrong corner overlap, glued and sewn on, contained in the back of the children's clothes, called 'fill the autumn buttocks'."

8. Autumn Society Autumn Society was originally a day of sacrifice to the gods of the land in the fall, began in the Han Dynasty, and later set the Autumn Society in the fifth e day after the fall. At this time the end of the harvest, the government and the people are on this day to worship the gods to thank. In the Song Dynasty, there was a custom of eating cake, drinking wine and returning women to their homes. In the Tang Dynasty, Han Slang wrote a poem entitled "Not Seeing": "I would like to be a swallow of the king's family, but I won't go back when I return to the Autumn Festival." In some places, there are still rumors of "doing social", "honoring the god of social" and "cooking social porridge".