Foods eaten during the Double Ninth Festival include: Double Ninth Cake, mutton, longevity noodles, glutinous rice cakes, and crabs.

1. Taste Double Ninth Cake

Eating Double Ninth Cake on Double Ninth Festival is also a traditional custom of Double Ninth Festival. According to historical records, Double Ninth Cake is also known as "flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, and five-color cake". "cake" and "gao" are homophonic, which means that the standard of living is gradually improving and good luck. People often make Double Ninth cakes for the elderly during this festival to show respect for the elderly.

There is no fixed variety of Double Ninth Festival cakes. The soft cakes eaten during the Double Ninth Festival in various places are called Double Ninth Festival cakes. Such as Shanghai's sponge cake and honey cake, Fuzhou's Jiuchong Barley, etc.

2. Eat mutton

As the saying goes, if you eat mutton and drink mutton soup, you will be healthy after eating it. On the Double Ninth Festival, mutton is eaten. "Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which is a symbol of the Double Ninth Festival. And eating mutton in autumn and winter is delicious and tender, and it can replenish the body and prevent cold.

3. Longevity Noodles

Longevity noodles are eaten during the Double Ninth Festival. Because of the long shape of the noodles, people have given it a good meaning of longevity. On the Double Ninth Festival, eating a bowl of noodles for the elders in the family means that they can live a long life. In the north, there is a tradition of eating mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival.

4. Eating glutinous rice cakes

During the Double Ninth Festival, in areas such as southwest China, it is also a custom to eat glutinous rice cakes. Ciba is a traditional snack made of glutinous rice. The round glutinous rice cake has the meaning of reunion and perfection.

5. Eating crabs

"As the Double Ninth Festival approaches, hold your chela to cut young ginger." Around the Double Ninth Festival, it is the time when crabs are full of yellow fat, so there is also the custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. When steaming crabs, tie the crabs and put them in the pot, so that the steamed crabs will have a more complete appearance; when steaming crabs, keep the belly facing up to avoid the loss of crab roe. When eating crabs, add a cup of rice wine to neutralize the cold nature of the crabs.