Autumn Equinox Festival to eat what traditional food fall equinox can eat those traditional food

1, autumn vegetables: in the Lingnan region, the Hakka people have the custom of eating autumn vegetables on the autumnal equinox. Autumn vegetables is a kind of wild amaranth, the villagers called autumn artemisia. On the day of the autumnal equinox, the whole village will go to pick autumn vegetables. It is prepared in the same way as spring soup, with fish fillets to make autumn soup, and the spring equinox jingle becomes: autumn soup to irrigate the dirty, wash the liver and intestines. The whole family, young and old, safe and healthy.

2, dumplings: autumn equinox day, the Hakka farmers are customary holiday, each family to eat dumplings, but also do not have to wrap the heart of the dumplings more than ten or twenty or thirty boiled, with a thin bamboo fork skewer placed in the outdoor field side of the ground, the name of the day sticking to the bird's beak, so as not to bird damage to the crops.

3, snails: many places in Guangdong Autumn Equinox have eaten snails custom. Before and after the autumnal equinox is the time of the snail empty, the meat is particularly fat, is the best time to eat the mouth of the snail. And snail meat is rich in nutrients, containing vitamin A is an important substance in the eyes of the optic pigment.

4, duck: the end of the Yuan Dynasty Mongolia rulers oppressed the Han people, Han people decided to overthrow the Yuan people. But at that time, the unification system is strict, can not be organized in the open struggle, use the secret word. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols for da son, take the harmonic duck. We agreed to eat duck at the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, at the time of the Autumn Equinox, we would take action together to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. Moreover, the duck in August the whole good fat and thin suitable, taste very good, have the effect of nourishing yin and blood.