Food and nutrition provided by different places. From the perspective of TCM health, we should eat more moist food after the autumnal equinox, such as sesame seeds, walnuts and glutinous rice. In addition, there are many kinds of fruits and vegetables listed in autumn, such as lotus root, water chestnut, sugarcane, autumn pear, citrus, hawthorn, apple, grape, lily, tremella, persimmon, sesame and honey.

In some places, people will make rice cakes or glutinous rice balls on the autumn equinox. In the past, glutinous rice dumplings were used to stick sparrows' mouths. In the old days, there was a nursery rhyme saying that sparrows chirped, rice cakes were fragrant and sticky, sparrows kept their mouths shut, and crops were good.

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People will deliberately wrap more jiaozi without stuffing, string them with bamboo sticks, put them in the fields and feed them to birds, hoping to stick the sparrows' mouths with sticky rice to ensure a bumper harvest.

In Lingnan area, on the day of the autumnal equinox, the whole village goes to pick wild amaranth, which is called autumn vegetables. Picked autumn vegetables are usually cooked with fish fillets, called autumn soup.

In Nanjing, it is popular to eat osmanthus duck, use ordinary salted duck and season with osmanthus brine. Osmanthus duck went on sale in Gui Xiang. Fat but not greasy, delicious.

Because of their love for sweet-scented osmanthus, Nanjing people also created sweet-scented osmanthus taro, an autumn-flavored snack.

When autumn is getting stronger, people in Hubei will start to stew lotus root soup. The hoof flowers, ribs and bones of pigs are the best destination at this time, that is, they are put in the pot with Caidian powder lotus root.

Autumn equinox, crab meat is fat. Lake crab, an autumn delicacy, is indispensable to people's dining tables in the south of the Yangtze River, and simple steaming is the best way to open it.

Autumn pear has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat. Cut the pears into pieces, put them in a bowl and steam them in water. You can mix honey after cooking, and you'd better eat it while it's hot.

After the autumnal equinox, it is also the harvest season of ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba is the fruit of ginkgo biloba. Ginkgo biloba is also called longevity fruit. Ginkgo nut not only contains starch, protein, fat and sugar, but also contains vitamin C, riboflavin, carotene and other trace elements, which are rich in nutrition.