What is the meaning of "custom command"
Below is the whole context. Would anyone help me with the last term? Many thanks.
This year, as humans usually celebrate the autumn equinox festival dinner, during which the table had the largest possible number of fruits from the harvest that year, but no more than a little of each of them. So custom commanded.

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So custom demanded means that the activity is traditional and they are following tradition. 
The tradition in this case has been personified for effect, so that rather than "they followed it," "it commanded them" to do something.

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There are a number of options, I would keep the first two words "So custom" and follow it by "demanded" or "decreed" or "dictated". Any would be ok but I would choose "decreed" myself

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