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A brief introduction to the origin of eating Osmanthus Jelly in Mid-Autumn Festival and eating Osmanthus Jelly in Mid-Autumn Festival
1, Mid-Autumn Festival is mainly to show everyone's respect for autumn. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival in August is just the time when osmanthus flowers are blooming, you can smell faint osmanthus fragrance everywhere in parks, roadsides, yards and rooms, and the fragrance is refreshing. It is also at this time that people like to pick some sweet-scented osmanthus to make cakes. Sweet-scented osmanthus cakes can be salty and sweet, and their fragrance is attractive, so they should be delicious in Mid-Autumn Festival. People will eat Osmanthus Jelly to express their gratitude for the autumn harvest and share the joy and beauty of the harvest.

2. Osmanthus Jelly has a history of more than 300 years. It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a vendor named Liu Jixiang in Xindu. He was inspired by the study of sweet-scented osmanthus in Chi Pan, Gui Hu, where Yang Sheng 'an, the top scholar, studied and rested as a child. He collected fresh sweet-scented osmanthus, squeezed out the bitter water, soaked it in sugar, pickled it into honey sweet-scented osmanthus, and added steamed rice flour to make a cake for sale, named Osmanthus Jelly. Once sold, Osmanthus Jelly attracted people to buy first, which was highly appreciated by customers, and its sales volume increased day by day, and it became famous at one fell swoop.