Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion and celebration, and family banquets are indispensable. It is indeed a happy thing to cook a delicious meal at home and enjoy a delicious meal with the family sitting around a table. Mid-Autumn Festival usually eats 10 dishes. Affordable and easy to do, better than the last hotel, and taking into account the tastes of the whole family, family members have a good time, and the festive atmosphere is strong! The traditional dishes for Mid-Autumn Festival are Osmanthus Jelly, moon cakes, snails, hairy crabs, osmanthus wine and taro. Braised pork, chicken, trotters, yellow croaker and so on.
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of August in the lunar calendar. Because the festival falls on August 15th, it is called "August Festival" and "August Half". Because the main activities of Mid-Autumn Festival are all around the "moon", it is also commonly known as "Moon Festival" and "Moon Festival". The full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival".
Mid-autumn festival custom
1, enjoy the moon
The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets have poems about the moon in their masterpieces. By the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was more popular to enjoy the moon. On this day, "your family decorated the pavilions and the people competed for the restaurant to play with the moon". To this day, it is still one of the essential activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival for the whole family to sit together and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the bright moon in the sky.
2. Eat moon cakes
As the saying goes, "August 15th is a full moon, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Every family eats moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The word moon cake originated from Wu Zimu's Dream of Liang Lu in the Southern Song Dynasty, when it was only a snack food. Later, people gradually combined moon viewing with moon cakes to symbolize family reunion and express their thoughts.
3, guessing puzzles
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China. On the night of the full moon, people get together to guess the riddles written on lanterns, because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time there are many love stories at these activities, so the Mid-Autumn Festival solve riddles on the lanterns has also been derived into a form of love between men and women.