Steamed hairy crabs, spicy snails, lotus root clips, grapefruit, apples, dates, persimmons, etc. Mid-Autumn Festival is usually in the middle and late September of the Gregorian calendar. At this time, crabs, snails and lotus roots went on the market. There are many snails at this time, but they will be pregnant with small snails. So it's best to keep them for a while before eating, so that they can spit out the snails before eating. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, grapefruit is full of fruit and juice. Apples are crisp and refreshing, sweet and sour.
Osmanthus Jelly, osmanthus wine, lotus root, pomegranate, snail, etc. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many delicious seasonal vegetables and fruits, such as pomegranate and lotus root. Besides these fruits and vegetables, you can also eat some meat foods, such as snails. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also the time when osmanthus fragrance is fragrant, which is suitable for brewing sweet and delicious Osmanthus Jelly and sweet and mellow osmanthus wine.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and Moon Palace Legend. It originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty.
The evening moon is the autumnal equinox when the ancient emperors offered sacrifices to the moon. Zheng Xuan pointed out in "Li Zhou Guan Chun General Bo Dian Lu": "The emperor always divides the sun in the morning in spring and the autumnal equinox in the moon at night." "Biography of Historical Records of Xiaowu" quoted Ying Shao as saying: "The son of heaven shines in the spring, in the morning sun, in the autumn moon, worships the east gate of the sun, in the morning sun, and in the evening moon." Now the Moon Altar in Beijing, formerly known as the Moon Altar, is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed the moon at the autumnal equinox.
Because there is not necessarily a moon on the night of the autumnal equinox, and the moon is not necessarily round, it will spoil the scenery, so people gradually put the autumnal equinox festival on the Mid-Autumn Festival.