On the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15, mooncakes symbolize reunion and are a must-eat item in the Mid-Autumn Festival. On holiday nights, people also like to eat some reunion fruits, such as watermelons, and wish their families a happy, sweet and safe life. What do you eat besides moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival? What are the dietary customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? Let's have a look!

1, eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion. As a kind of food that looks like a full moon and contains good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous inside".

Step 2 drink osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell osmanthus fragrance, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus flowers, drink a glass of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which becomes a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. At the moment, the osmanthus festival is being held in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Members of the public may wish to take their families to visit the eastern suburbs and enjoy flowers for the holidays.

Step 3 eat taro

Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in many places, means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, which means not believing in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou County Records" said: "Playing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cutting taro and eating it is called peeling the ghost skin." Cut taro to eat, but still full of Zhong Kui's exorcism spirit.