What do you want to eat on the Double Ninth Festival?
Chestnut Cake
Double Ninth Festival in Beijing specializes in eating two kinds of snacks, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste.
Chongyang cake
Respect the old and love the young, climb high and avoid disasters. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, meaning "step by step" and "longevity", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become the most popular holiday food. Yang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, has no fixed method and is more casual. There are coarse flower cakes, fine flower cakes and money flower cakes.
Chrysanthemum wine
Jiujiu is homophonic with Jiujiu and Jiujiu, so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. According to records, during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, "on September 9th, people wore dogwood, ate lotus bait and drank chrysanthemum wine to prolong life".
Mash the cooked glutinous rice into a paste.
Eating Bazin is another dietary custom of the Double Ninth Festival in southwest China. Ciba is divided into soft, hard and salty. The practice is to put the washed glutinous rice into a boiling water pot, take it out as soon as it is cooked, steam it in a cage, mash it in a mortar and knead it into a ball. When eating, stir-fry sesame seeds, pound them into fine powder, rub them into strips, pull them into small pieces, and mix them with sesame seeds and sugar. Its taste is sweet and delicious, and it is called "Soft Bazin". Hard Eight Immortals, also known as "Oil Eight Immortals", cooked glutinous rice without mashing, put it on a box and knead it into a ball. After rolling it out, put some salt and pepper powder to make a "filling", then roll it into thin slices and fry it in an oil pan. The color is golden and beautiful, salty, spicy and crisp, with endless aftertaste.
sabotage
Before and after the Double Ninth Festival, that is, when the northwest wind blows, crabs are the best. The female crab is full and the male crab is fat.
Customs before and after the Double Ninth Festival
On September 9th, an autumn festival was held in Wuyuan County, Huangling County, Jiangxi Province. Wuyuan Yuling ancient village still retains the good phenomenon of "basking in autumn" production and life. In autumn, a large number of fresh vegetables and fruits need to be dried and stored, forming a spectacular scene.
Farmers in Changting county, Fujian province collect edamame as gifts from the fields, which is called edamame Festival. Flying kites on the Double Ninth Festival in Haicheng County is called "Fengcha".
At the Double Ninth Festival in Lianchuan, Guangdong, many boys and girls gathered outside the city to sing and people in the state watched. Wuchuan Double Ninth Festival has the traditional custom of catering, and catering for the elderly is very popular. The Double Ninth Festival is a day to respect, love and help the elderly. Large-scale banquet activities developed from the banquets collected by Qingfeng in the pre-Qin period.
Huaiji County in Guangxi regards Chongyang as an opportunity for Yuan Di's success. Men and women, old and young, came out of the whole city and competed with the gods for their wishes, all using cannons. On September 9, Longxian allowed cattle and sheep to feed on their own. As the saying goes, "On September 9th, cattle and sheep went their separate ways". [ 18]
On the Double Ninth Festival in Jiangsu, Nanjing people cut five-color paper into diagonal shapes, pasted them into flags and inserted them in court. Changzhou county eats a kind of pasta called "camel hoof" on the Double Ninth Festival. There is a Double Ninth Festival in Wuxi County to eat Double Ninth Cake and Nine Soups.
The Chrysanthemum Festival will be held in Shanghai Yuyuan Garden, and will be judged by three scores: novelty, nobility and rarity.
Zhejiang double ninth festival Shaoxing government exchange visits. Unless it's a funeral for relatives and friends, they all cry at the coffin. Tonglu county prepares pigs and sheep for ancestors.
In Xianghe County, Hebei Province, on September 9, families with in-laws will give gifts to each other, which is called "chasing festivals". The weather in Chongyang is the reason why the future of Yongping Building is uncertain. If it rains on the Double Ninth Festival, it will rain these days. There are no mountains in Dianxian County, and there are more people in the county than in the Double Ninth Festival.
People in the north of Changyi, Shandong eat spicy radish soup on the Double Ninth Festival. There is a proverb: "after drinking radish soup, the whole family will not suffer." Juancheng people call the Double Ninth Festival the birthday of the God of Wealth, and every household burns sesame cakes to offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth. Zou Ping offered a sacrifice to Fan Zhongyan in Chongyang. In the old days, dyeing houses and wineries also paid homage to the god of tanks on September 9. Tengzhou's daughter, who has been married for less than three years, avoids going home for the New Year. There is a saying called "Go home on the Double Ninth Festival and kill your mother-in-law".
On the Double Ninth Festival in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, relatives and friends exchange chrysanthemums and chrysanthemum cakes. Scholars present poems and wine to each other. It is said that on this day, women's dogwood can cure their distress.
Since ancient times, Shanxi has had the traditional habit of climbing mountains on September 9. Appreciating great rivers, mountains and places of interest has become a major event of the festival. Today, famous sayings such as "Gan Kun triumphed, our generation climbed the mountain together", "The east wind can't stay, the peak rises in Ran Ran" and "September is a new day, go to the countryside to celebrate autumn" are still circulating among the people.