Shanghainese like to accompany the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet with osmanthus honey wine. Because they think osmanthus is a symbol of prosperity for future generations, drinking osmanthus honey wine in Mid-Autumn Festival means celebrating the sweetness and reunion of the family. According to historical records, more than 2,300 years ago, Qu Yuan, a poet in the Warring States Period, wrote a beautiful sentence about osmanthus: "Drink osmanthus wine and pepper paste" and "Wu Pei takes a boat in osmanthus". In fact, there was a tradition of brewing osmanthus wine 500 years ago. Drinking osmanthus wine in the Mid-Autumn Festival represents the meaning of reunion and has become a tradition. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine is natural light yellow, fresh and mellow, sweet and clean, with unique and pure natural fragrance, and it is the top grade with meals. Moreover, long-term moderate drinking has the functions of nourishing, conditioning, nourishing and health preservation.
The famous dish of Jinling, osmanthus duck, osmanthus duck has been fragrant for thousands of years.
Sweet-scented osmanthus duck, a famous dish in Jinling, is a must-eat dish for Nanjing people in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Also known as salted duck, it is a famous specialty in Nanjing and has a long-standing reputation. It has been fragrant for more than 2,500 years. It has become a common custom in Nanjing to buy a bowl of salted duck on holidays or weekdays. Eight laurel flowers. At this time, the osmanthus duck soup boiled with osmanthus fragrans not only has the elegant aroma of osmanthus fragrans, but also has mellow duck meat with moderate salty taste, which can whiten the skin, preserve health and moisten dryness, and promote fluid production to quench thirst. In addition, after drinking in the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating osmanthus duck with a little sugar taro and pouring osmanthus pulp is beautiful. Cinnamon pulp is a kind of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. According to legend, the name of Gui Jiang was taken from Qu Yuan's Songs of Chu-Thinking Less, and Helping the North Pass to Consider Gui Jiang.
The water shield bass swam to the table.
Braised bass with water shield in Hangzhou is a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet. The water shield and perch in Mid-Autumn Festival are delicious and fascinating. Water shield is a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, and soup is seasonal in August. Its roots, stems and leaves are green and fragrant, fresh and delicious, and rich in nutrition. Water shield can be picked in spring and autumn, especially in autumn. In the Jin Dynasty, Hans Zhang used the homesick "water shield bass" to abandon his official position and return to his hometown, making water shield a symbol of homesickness. At that time, Hans Zhang was an official in Luoyang. When he saw the autumn wind, he couldn't help thinking of the "wild vegetables and thick soup bass" in his hometown and said, "Success is the most important thing in life. How can you hold an official for thousands of miles, so that you can be famous? " So he resigned and went home. Since then, water shield has become a symbol of homesickness. Since ancient times, delicious water shield has haunted many wanderers. Bai Juyi, a great writer, also wrote a sentence, "There are still bass water shield, and they will come in spring or plan to live in Jiangdong." During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, water shield and perch stew were listed as tributes and presented to the imperial court.
Sichuan-style smoked duck
In western Sichuan, smoked duck is necessary for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is most suitable for autumn production, because ducks have grown up and are suitable for Mid-Autumn Festival. Clean the duck, smoke it with straw until brown, mix it with salt water, and add spices, salt, sugar, etc. And then cook them into smoked ducks with golden color, tender meat and strong smoke smell.
Besides smoked ducks, Sichuanese also have the habit of eating sesame cakes and honey cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Hemp cake is an authentic Sichuan dish with a long history. Pepper-and-salt sesame seed cake contains pepper and salt in addition to its thin skin and rich heart, which is a special flavor of pure sweet, slightly hemp and slightly salty. According to legend, Zhang Desheng, a native of Hefei, was appointed as a pioneer by Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of Yuan Dynasty. In order to prepare dry food, he specially made a big "money cake" called hemp cake to pay for the water army, which greatly boosted morale and defeated the Yuan army. Zhu Yuanzhang called it "victory cake" after hearing the news.
Nanyue multiflavor yue
Known as the hometown of delicious food, Nanyue combines the wisdom of Laoguang in eating moon cakes and cakes, with sweet, salty, meat, assorted foods and various tastes. Not only that, taro paste and pulp made of grapefruit, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive, banana, taro and pumpkin are also delicious after the Mid-Autumn Festival. These are closely related to the cultural connotation, geographical climate and agricultural production of Nanyue Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a common saying that taro is eaten in the Mid-Autumn Festival and used to worship ancestors. "Rivers and streams are opposite, and taro is afraid." Galaxy and Chaoshan people call it a river. In A.D. 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, established the Yuan Dynasty, brutally ruled the Han people, and the people were massacred. In order not to forget the suffering of the Hu people's rule, later generations paid homage to their ancestors with taro as a homonym with the "Hu people", which was passed down from generation to generation and still exists today.