1, eat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon, which is a festive reunion with a unique flavor. As a kind of food shaped like a full moon and containing good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, and there is crisp and glutinous in it".
2. Drink osmanthus wine
Every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the Gui Xiang, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. At the moment, the Osmanthus Festival is being held in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. The citizens may wish to visit the eastern suburbs with their families, enjoy the flowers and spend the festival.
3. Eat taro
Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in many places, means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and means not to believe in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou Prefecture Records" said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, is called peeling ghost skin." Peel taro and eat it, but it is still full of Zhong Kui's spirit of exorcism.
4, eating lotus root box
Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival is also a sign of reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, and the stuffing made of meat and clam is sandwiched in the middle, and the noodles are fried until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root in the market, namely, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crisp, sweet and white. Chinese medicine believes that after being cooked, lotus root changes from cool to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.