1, moon cake
Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival food, everyone must immediately think of moon cakes. In fact, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival didn't catch on until the Ming Dynasty. Before this, the Mid-Autumn Festival food was mainly melons and fruits. There is a legend about the origin of moon cakes: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people thought of resisting Mongolian rule, but they were unable to pass on the news. So Liu Bowen came up with a plan. It is said that there will be a winter epidemic this year, which can be avoided unless every household buys moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival. When I got home, I bit open the moon cake and found a note hidden inside, which read: "Kill the Tartars on Mid-Autumn Festival night and welcome the rebels!" " "So many people rebelled against the rulers, so the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has been preserved.
Step 2 water chestnut
Eating water chestnut in Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children grow smart. Most water chestnuts are cooked with water (or salt water) and peeled as snacks; You can also cook shelled water chestnut and rice together to make salty rice congee. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes and drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge, the greasy stomach was removed on the spot.
3. chestnuts
When the autumn is cool, the fragrance of sugar-fried chestnuts begins to float all over the streets. Chestnuts, like taro and water chestnut, are also a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chestnut is sweet and cold, and has the functions of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons. It is most suitable for autumn. Chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, and diabetics can eat them in moderation, which is most suitable for the elderly and the infirm. Chestnut can not only be a snack, but also be eaten. Famous dishes include chestnut duck, chestnut roast chicken and chestnut stew chicken soup. At the same time, it can give full play to the delicious taste of chestnut. It is essential to eat healthily in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
4, grapefruit
Grapefruit is one of the necessities of Mid-Autumn Festival, because "grapefruit" is homophonic with "you", which also means wishing the moon bless. Eating sweet moon cakes and then eating sweet and sour grapefruit is both appetizing and boring, which makes people feel refreshed. Grapefruit tastes sweet and sour, slightly bitter, and is rich in vitamin C and a lot of other nutrients. It is recognized by the medical community as the fruit with the most therapeutic benefits. Has the effects of lowering blood sugar, reducing blood fat, losing weight, and caring skin. If eaten regularly, it can be used as an adjuvant therapy for diseases such as diabetes and arteriosclerosis, and can strengthen the body and beauty beauty for obese people.
Step 5 reunite
Every Mid-Autumn Festival in Xi, Shaanxi, every local household will make steamed buns, and the whole family will eat a steamed bun called "Reunion Steamed Bun". Steamed bread has a top layer and a bottom layer with sesame seeds in the middle. At the top of the bun, a circle is extended from a big bowl, symbolizing the Mid-Autumn Festival night. There is a "stone" carved in the circle, on which stands a "little monkey" eating flat peaches. After the steamed bread is cooked in the pot, it is cut into fangs, one for each family, and one for each family when going out for a short time. For married girls, the bride's family will send steamed buns to the door to show family reunion.
6.lamb cake
Eating Ciba in Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago, and it is a traditional custom that people have passed down to this day to commemorate Wu Zixu, the general of Chu. Usually, people regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a lunar festival next to the Spring Festival, which is called "off-year". Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the women at home got up early and began to get busy. They poured the washed glutinous rice into wooden steamer and steamed it. After the glutinous rice was steamed, the male host of the family came to the courtyard dam with a wooden steamer, poured the delicious glutinous rice into the stone mound nest, and began to pound it with a hammer or a wooden pestle in pairs, while the children at home happily watched the adults pound the glutinous rice around the stone mound nest, expecting to eat sweet glutinous rice.
7. Shandong Maijian
Speaking of Shandong Mid-Autumn Festival food, Maijian is a festive food eaten in Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival. Spread white flour into pancakes first, then add meat stuffing or vegetarian stuffing, and then roll them into tubes with straw for steaming. It is very delicious when eaten. It is said that on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingdao people should not only have a good Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, but also improve their breakfast and lunch. Generally speaking, they steam cakes and steamed buns to improve their family's food. Mai Jian is one of them.
8.pumpkin
Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated everywhere south of the Yangtze River. The rich eat moon cakes, while the poor have the custom of eating pumpkins. How did the custom of "eating pumpkins in August and a half" come about? Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with elderly parents and only one daughter named Huanghua. At that time, Huang Hua's parents were ill in bed after years of famine. On August 15, Huang Hua found two oblate wild melons among weeds in Nanshan. She picked it up and cooked it for her parents. After eating it, the two old people greatly increased their appetite and recovered their health. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, bearing many round melons. Because it was picked from Nanshan, it was called pumpkin. Since then, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half every year on August 15th.
9. Watermelon
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in Shaanxi, rich or poor, must eat watermelons, which must be cut into lotus shapes. In order to relieve summer heat, it is cold and contains more sugar, which can clear away heat and purge fire, and has the effects of stopping diarrhea, diuresis, treating blood dysentery and relieving alcoholism. When the Mid-Autumn Festival is full, while enjoying the cool and enjoying the moon, eating watermelon to relieve the heat is cool and pleasant, which adds to the joy of family reunion. Moreover, after eating moon cakes, eat a piece of watermelon to clear away heat and relieve boredom. Over time, eating watermelon has become the habit of Shaanxi people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so today Shaanxi people will eat watermelon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Watermelon is cut into the shape of lotus, just to match the festive atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival and increase happiness and auspiciousness.
10, 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, connect the lower ends of each two pieces together, put stuffing made of meat and clams in the middle, and fry the noodles 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 on the market, 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 and tender, crisp, sweet and white meat. Chinese medicine believes that lotus root changes from cool to warm after cooking, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.
1 1, crab
Autumn is also the season of crabs, and it is a good time for many gourmets who love seafood to try it early. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty, crabs became the protagonists of the audience. The book "The Record of the Central Committee of the Proceedings" wrote: "Steamed 50% to 60%, the group got together to eat, talked and laughed, uncovered the navel cover, picked nails and dipped them in vinegar and garlic to accompany the wine." At that time, after steamed with cattails, everyone sat around and ate crabs, served with wine and vinegar, which was very popular. Crabs are cold, so it's best to eat them while they are hot, and get in touch with ginger and alcohol to get rid of the cold.
12, snail
Regarding eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is recorded in the "Shunde County Records" during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, eating snails is still fragrant." People believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. But why must the Mid-Autumn Festival be particularly keen on food? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen, and the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
13, taro
In Taiwan Province Province, eating taro on Mid-Autumn Festival is also very popular. There is a saying: "Eating rice noodles and taro has a good start". Take the homonym of impression and road and pray for ancestors to bless themselves to find a good job. Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not to believe in evil spirits. Chaozhou Official Records written before the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and peeling taro to eat is called peeling ghosts." Stripping and eating ghosts is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.
14, Duck
For Nanjing people, ducks are the only thing they want to eat. There is also a historical legend about eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolian rulers oppressed the Han people, and the Han people decided to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. However, at that time, the regulations were strict and it was impossible to clearly organize the struggle, so code words were used. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols "Da Zi", so they took the homonym "Duck". People agree that eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival means that everyone will take action together to overthrow Yuan's rule. Seasonally, salted duck has the best color and taste around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. This is because ducks are cooked in the season when osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and duck meat will have the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, so it is called "osmanthus duck". There is such a record in "Bai Men Ji Recipe": "In August in Jinling, salted duck is the most famous, and everyone thinks that there is osmanthus fragrance in the meat."
15, osmanthus wine
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the sweet-scented osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the bursts of Gui Xiang, drink a glass of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the whole family and get together, which has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are some poems, such as "supporting the horse and fighting, drinking cinnamon pulp" and "drinking cinnamon pulp". It can be seen that China drank osmanthus wine for a long time.
16, vegetable cake
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan, besides eating moon cakes, there is also a vegetable cake. Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. It tastes crisp and refreshing.
17, chicken
Cantonese people have always been "no feast without chicken", and eating whole chicken takes the homonym of "home", which means starting with chicken and reuniting the whole family. In addition, whole chicken is also an indispensable tribute to ancestors in Guangdong. Fresh chicken with scallion oil and boiled chicken are the most popular.
Cocks and hens have slightly different diets. Hens are generally used for stewing soup, and cocks are suitable for quick frying. Because hens have high fat content, umami substances in meat are easily dissolved in soup, and the stewed chicken soup tastes delicious. On the contrary, the cock's meat is tight and it is difficult to make thick soup. People prefer delicate "chicken" when eating cock, so it is more important to fry it quickly to keep it fresh and delicious.
18, pig cake
People in Shaxi, Zhongshan celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and have the habit of eating pig cakes and making porridge. In the era of lack of materials, poor families can't afford moon cakes, so they use "brown rice cakes" and "pork cakes" instead.
Brown "brown rice cake" is made by grinding glutinous rice into powder and mixing sliced sugar. The thickness is about 1 cm, and the diameter is 10 cm, with a small piece of thin fat embedded in the middle, which tastes sweet and greasy. "Pig cake" is made of flour in the shape of a pig and sold in a pig cage. It is affectionately called "children's moon cake".
19, soybean
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in addition to taro, some edamame will be steamed specially. Maodou is also called Maopod locally, and pod is homophonic with the words "Jia" and "Ji". So eating edamame is in the hope of good luck and everything goes well.
20.pomegranate
Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when pomegranate ripens. Because it is red as agate, white as crystal, and the entrance is like crystal jade paste, pomegranate has become one of the offerings on the table, symbolizing longevity, reunion and auspiciousness. Yellow varieties are sweeter. Many people think that the redder the fruit, the sweeter it is, but this does not apply to pomegranate selection. There are many varieties of pomegranate, which are divided into red and yellow according to the epidermis. Generally, yellow varieties are sweeter. Sweet pomegranate has a closed mouth, rough skin color and short and wide leaves; The sour pomegranate has a wider mouth, regular fruit shape, bright skin color and long and narrow leaves.
2 1, braised bass with water shield
Stewed bass with water shield in Hangzhou became a dish at Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, not only because the water shield was delicious at this time, but also because of the historical fact that Hans Zhang abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown in Jin Dynasty with the help of homesickness. This story has not only become a beautiful talk for generations, but also made water shield a symbol of homesickness. Water shield is a family banquet for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also a seasonal soup in August.
22. Rice steamed bread
"Rice steamed bread" is a round stuffing-free food steamed with wet rice flour of early rice, also called white steamed bread. In Ningbo dialect, the sound of "Man" is the same as that of "Man", and it is called "Mitou" to gain a good impression. The white round rice steamed bread symbolizes the full moon. Rice steamed bread is a Mid-Autumn Festival food and gift for Ningbo people. Good taste, sweet but not greasy, smooth and sticky, accompanied by slightly sour wine flavor.
23. Zongzi
In some rural areas of Yongzhou, Zongzi is eaten on Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the older generation, the traffic in Yongzhou was inconvenient and the news was blocked. It takes a long time from Miluo in northern Hunan to southern Hunan. Therefore, when the news of Qu Yuan came, it was already the Mid-Autumn Festival in August. In order to commemorate Qu Yuan, the Mid-Autumn Festival had to be used instead of the Dragon Boat Festival, so the custom of making zongzi in the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed.
24. Vegetable cake
Besides eating moon cakes, there is also a kind of food called "vegetable cakes" in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan, Taiwan Province. Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle.