1, eat snails
People believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of visual pigment. Eating snails can improve your eyesight, which makes sense. But why do you have to eat it on the Mid-Autumn Festival? It was pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, snails were empty and there were no snails in their bellies. Therefore, 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.
Step 2 drink osmanthus wine
People often eat moon cakes, enjoy osmanthus flowers and eat all kinds of foods made of osmanthus flowers, among which cakes and sweets are the most common.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at osmanthus, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a glass of osmanthus wine in the middle of the month to celebrate the sweetness of the family has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival.
Osmanthus fragrans wine is sweet and mellow, low in degree, not easy to get drunk, clear and transparent in color, and can be drunk all year round, suitable for men, women and children. Drinking osmanthus wine often is very helpful for beauty and skin care. The ancients believed that osmanthus fragrans was the best medicine and had the effect of prolonging life. Therefore, in ancient times, osmanthus wine was the top grade for people to worship their gods and ancestors. Mid-Autumn Festival, under a full moon, it is fascinating to taste sweet and delicious osmanthus wine with your family.
3. Eat reunion buns
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, bake a reunion dinner for the whole family to share. If the wanderer can't come back, just keep a copy until he goes home to taste his hometown. Reunion steamed stuffed bun, that is, the big round moon cake made by farmers in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, is made of refined wheat flour and has three to five layers of big round cakes, and all kinds of flowers are engraved around each layer. This cake looks very beautiful and symbolizes family reunion. Yue Bai was a gift to the moon, and Yue Bai later shared it. How many people in a family, how many pieces to cut. Together is a big round cake (reunion); When we are apart, each person takes a piece, which means a happy reunion and the whole family Qi Xin works together.
Step 4 eat moon cakes
The moon cake symbolizes the full moon, which is a happy reunion and shared by the whole family. They are a must-eat food for Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancients used moon cakes as sacrifices and ate them in the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. Prior to this, Mid-Autumn Festival food was still mainly seasonal fruits and vegetables. There is a folk legend about moon cakes: At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people tried to resist the rule of the Mongols, but there was no way to convey the news. Counselor Liu Bowen came up with a brilliant plan. It is said that there will be a plague this winter, and every family will buy moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival to escape. Everyone bought moon cakes in succession, and when they got home, people bit open the moon cakes and found a note inside, calling on everyone to rise up against the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. The custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has been handed down in this way.