Eat duck (eat a roast duck to suppress shock)

Duck is pressure, take its homonym, eat duck and pressure ghosts. Therefore, on the Mid-Autumn Festival, ducks are eaten all over the country.

Steamed mutton

In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, it is popular among the people that on July 15th, my grandfather and uncle sent live sheep to my nephew. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend that agarwood splits the mountain to save mother.

After chopping the mountain to save her mother, Aquilaria killed her abusive uncle Jiro. In order to rebuild the friendship between brother and sister, Jiro sends a pair of live sheep to Aquilaria every July 15 to reunite the two families.

Eat jiaozi and cake.

On the rooftop of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, jiaozi will be eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, jiaozi tube was left by Jigong. When Jigong became a monk in Guosi, he found that there were many dishes left in every meal, which was a waste.

Just put these dishes in a paste-pulled leather bag for dinner, which was loved by many monks and spread to the people. Food culture of Mid-Autumn Festival in July and a half.

The dietary customs of Mid-Autumn Festival are closely related to the activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors and ghosts on this day.

It was a small autumn before July, and a batch of crops were ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer sacrifices, such as new rice, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors.

Song Mengyuan's "Dream of China in Tokyo" said in Volume 1: The day before Yuan Zhong, when I was enjoying the sacrifice, I bought practice leaves to line the table, and I also bought a nest of hemp seeds and tied them on the foot of the table, which was the mind of my ancestor Qiu Cheng. In some places, special fruits of this festival should be made.

There are seven kinds of tree crystals to be made in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Huilai County, Guangdong Province: bride, lotus leaf bag, triangular building, hexagonal building, chicken gauge group, pomegranate and another common fruit.

Guangdong Chaoan Zhongyuan Festival also produces a variety of fruits, one of which is called carp fruit, which is stuffed with glutinous rice, kneaded into the shape of carp, and wrapped in red skin to decorate the festival's ancestor worship items.