What food do you eat in the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The long autumn with hot summer and cold winter is the best season for health preservation. After a hot summer, I sweated a lot and consumed a lot of energy. Now more care is needed to regulate the stomach and let the body store energy to spend the cold winter.
Autumn is dry, eat more green leafy vegetables, because the vitamin content is high, it is good to eat more. "An adult should eat at least a catty of vegetables every day."
The head of the Department of Food and Nutrition of Zhejiang University also agrees that dark vegetables such as spinach, green vegetables, celery, chrysanthemum, amaranth and carrots, like brown-red vegetables, not only contain more vitamins, but also have higher carotene content.
Carotene is a treasure of human body. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can tonify the middle qi, strengthen the stomach and digestion, strengthen yang and strengthen the five internal organs, and has a good effect on indigestion, chronic dysentery, cough and night blindness, so it is called "Oriental Little Ginseng". After being fried and eaten, it can be converted into vitamin A in human body, which can improve human immunity and indirectly kill cancer cells.
Why do you eat crabs on Mid-Autumn Festival?
The custom of eating crabs in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. As the saying goes, "the west wind tickles the crab's feet", which means that every Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs are plump and beautiful, and it is the best time to taste them.
In ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet custom of Han people was the most elegant in the court. For example, eating crabs was very popular in the court of the Ming Dynasty. After steaming the crabs with cattail, everyone sat around and tasted them, served with wine and vinegar. Drink Su Ye Tang after eating and wash your hands with it. The banquet table was filled with flowers, pomegranates and other fashionable things, and the Mid-Autumn Festival drama was staged.
Because chrysanthemum crabs are thick in autumn and cool in autumn, fat hairy crabs have long been "rampant" in Shenzhen. As the saying goes, "September is the best month for female crabs and October is the best month for male crabs." . At this time, the crab paste of the mother crab is fragrant and tender, and the sweet and greasy crab yellow, white and fresh crab meat makes consumers drool and their index fingers move. Eating crabs is not because of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but because crabs are the best at this time.
"Crab" and "Xie" are homonyms, so-called "Mid-Autumn Festival is full of people". Mid-Autumn Festival happens to be a festival full of affection and friendship among traditional festivals in China. Wanderers come back, visit relatives and friends, get together with friends and express their wishes ... this word "thank you" is perfect, but how to say "thank you" and give it away? As a homophonic word, "crab" is no longer appropriate.
What should I pay attention to when eating crabs in Mid-Autumn Festival?
First of all, don't drink tea after eating crabs. Some people think that crabs will have fishy smell after eating, so they drink a few mouthfuls of tea to dilute the fishy smell, but this will cause physical discomfort, because tea contains tannic acid, which will affect nutrition and hinder digestion.
Furthermore, at the dinner table in China, I regret to tell you that hairy crabs, beer and liquor can't be drunk, because the purine and monophosphate rich in hairy crabs will be decomposed by vitamin B 1 of beer when drinking beer, which will lead to the combination of some harmful components in the body, and the increase of uric acid content will indirectly lead to urinary calculi. If the metabolism of the body is not good, it will lead to gout.
The best match when eating crabs is white wine, because the taste of white wine is very refreshing, and it also has the function of sterilization, which is very suitable for eating crabs and other seafood. Because everyone likes to eat mother crabs in Mid-Autumn Festival, and the crab roe and crab paste rich in mother crabs are very greasy after eating, you can drink white wine to relieve boredom and remove fishy smell, which is a good choice that complements each other.
The implication of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival
Moon cakes symbolize reunion, which should have started in the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the information about moon cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival folk customs in the Ming Dynasty, we should be able to see the historical track of the reunion of moon cakes: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family will sit together and share moon cakes and fruits (offerings of the moon). Because moon cakes are also round and shared by the whole family, it gradually forms the implication that moon cakes represent family reunion.