Beginning of autumn is one of the most important solar terms, and people certainly can't forget to eat it. Therefore, it is deeply loved by the people in Beijing and Hebei. People have a bad appetite in dog days, so many people will lose weight. In Qing Dynasty, people hung scales to weigh people, of course, most of them were children. Compare their weight with their weight in long summer to test their obesity. Losing weight is called "bitter summer". At that time, people often judged health only by being fat and thin. Of course, if you lose weight, you need to make up. The way to make up for it is to go to beginning of autumn, eat delicious food, and "paste the autumn fat". Of course, meat is the first choice, and "stick fat with meat". Beginning of autumn keeps in good health. Ordinary people eat stew, especially boiled pork and braised pork, as well as jiaozi, stewed chicken, stewed duck and braised fish.
Tianjin: Apart from "sticking autumn fertilizer" in beginning of autumn, "biting autumn" is also popular in Tianjin and other places. People believe that eating melons in early autumn can avoid diarrhea in winter and the next spring. There is such a record in Zhang Dao's "Customs of Golden Gate Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" in the Qing Dynasty: "beginning of autumn can avoid diarrhea when he eats melons and bites autumn." In the Qing Dynasty, people put melons, steamed eggplants and fragrant soup in the yard the day before in beginning of autumn, and ate them in beginning of autumn to remove the heat in summer and avoid dysentery.
Sichuan: Drinking "autumn water" is popular in the east and west of Sichuan, that is, at the exact moment in beginning of autumn, everyone in the whole family drinks a cup, which is said to eliminate the accumulated summer heat, and Qiu Lai will not have a stomachache.
Shandong: In Laixi, Shandong Province, it is popular for beginning of autumn to eat "dregs", which is a kind of small tofu made of tofu and vegetables. There is a saying that "adults and children can't vomit or pull after eating beginning of autumn dregs". So many dietary customs are mostly aimed at preventing dysentery, which shows that workers in China are aware of autumn diarrhea.
Beijing: There is a folk saying "autumn fat attached". What is "autumn fertilizer"? In fact, in hot summer, people can't eat anything and feel anorexia. Once in beginning of autumn, although the weather is still very hot, people's bodies are no longer wet. After all, cool autumn is coming. Anthony wong: so I began to sprout the idea of cooking something delicious to make up for the deficit since summer. What should I eat? The most satisfying thing is stew! Eating stew to make up for the fat lost in summer is called "sticking autumn fertilizer"
Hangzhou: In the south of the Yangtze River, it is a custom to eat watermelon every day in beginning of autumn. Autumn health: Autumn peaches were popular in Hangzhou before. In beginning of autumn, adults and children should eat autumn peaches, one for each person, and keep the stone after eating. On New Year's Eve, the peach pit was thrown into the stove and burned to ashes. It is thought that this will save the plague for a year.