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Customs of Autumn?

Autumn fattening is a popular way of weighing yourself on the day of Autumn and comparing your weight with that of the summer.

Autumn wind, appetite, want to eat some good, to compensate for the loss of summer. The way to make up for this is to "put on the autumn fat": eat thick food, of course, the first choice to eat meat, the so-called "meat to put on the fat".

Weighing water, in the old days, the people respectively before and after the autumn with the same size container filled with water, and then weighed. If the water before the fall is heavy, it indicates that the water is heavy, then there will be less rain in the fall; if the water after the fall is heavy, then there will be more rain in the fall, and there is a possibility of autumn flooding.

Eat "slag" Shandong, Sichuan and other areas popular in the fall to eat "slag" - a small bean curd made of soybean paste and greens, and there are "Eat the dregs of the Autumn, adults and children do not vomit also do not pull" the proverb.