What are the traditional folk customs in the Autumn season?

1, stick autumn fat

People don't have an appetite for food in the summer, so they lose weight. At the beginning of autumn, the weather turns cooler, people's appetite increases greatly, and they want to eat something good to compensate for the loss of summer.

"Sticky autumn fat": all kinds of meat, stewed meat, roasted meat, braised meat, etc., "to meat fat" on the day of autumn.

2, nibble autumn

"Nibble autumn" in some places also known as "bite autumn". Tianjin preaching in the autumn this day to eat watermelon or melon, said "bite autumn", implying that the summer heat is difficult to get through, when the autumn, will bite it. If you use the current buzzword, it is called hold.

The custom of biting the fall is very strong in Jiangsu, pick up a big watermelon and eat a few more bites, you can get rid of prickly heat.

City people buy a watermelon home on the day of Autumn, the whole family around the nibble, is to nibble the fall. And the countryside of the gnawing fall is much more bold. They are in the shed, in the shade, groups of three to five, sitting on the ground, holding the red flesh watermelon nibble, holding the green flesh melon nibble, holding the white yam nibble, holding the golden corn on the cob nibble.