The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is as lively as the Spring Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan is full of rituals: "worship the master", "worship the moon girl", "burn the kiln", welcome lanterns, admire the moon, make Gongfu tea, eat cakes, and reunite the whole family!

Mooncakes spread from the palace to the people, and developed from "small cakes" and "moon balls" to the top five mooncakes in the country: Guangchao, Jingsu, and Yunnan, which are deeply loved by people! In Chaoshan, the most food-conscious city in China, in addition to sending mooncakes, you can also send these 4 kinds of delicacies: hairy crabs, tea, fruits, and wine, which is full of meaning!

-01- Hairy crabs: wealth

The meaning of hairy crabs

In Chaoshan, just one crab can make a pot of sweet and delicious porridge. In addition to "Chaoshan Beef Hot Pot", the most famous food in Chaoshan is also called "Chaoshan Casserole Porridge". Mid-Autumn Festival is the most delicious time for hairy crabs, with a lot of cream and yellow color! Sending hairy crabs has many meanings:

1. "Crab" is a homophone for "thank you". Sending crabs means "giving gifts of thanks", expressing gratitude to relatives and friends who have helped you!

2. Crabs walking sideways means "making a windfall", "getting a windfall", and "trading the world". It means wishing relatives and friends that their careers can "run the world", everything goes smoothly, and wealth comes rolling in!

3. The crab has eight legs and two large claws, and it will not let go when it clamps something. When the crab is cooked, it will turn red, which means "wealth comes from all directions", "keep money" and "good luck". pledge"!

-02-Tea: Health

The meaning of tea

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan is to "worship the moon mother" first and then enjoy the moon and soak in gongfu with the family Tea, eating moon cakes, playing chess, guessing... it's all fun! Chaozhou Phoenix Dancong tea is indispensable for making Gongfu tea in Chaoshan. It has the fragrance of green tea and the mellowness of black tea, with green color and beautiful shape. , sweet and fragrant characteristics.

Tea contains catechins, caffeine, folic acid and other ingredients, which can improve human health. So giving tea is "giving health"! There are many types of tea, including black tea, green tea, dark tea, green tea, white tea and yellow tea.

You can also choose China’s top ten famous teas for gifting: Dongting Biluochun, West Lake Longjing, Lu’an Guapian, Anxi Tieguanyin, Keemun Black Tea, Junshan Silver Needle, Huangshan Maofeng, Wuyi Rock Tea, Duyun Maojian, Xinyang Maojian.

-03-Fruit: Reunion

The Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival "Moon Worshiping" must also include fruits, such as those that can be eaten all year round: oranges, apples, grapes, Bananas are definitely indispensable, but the most representative ones in Chaoshan during the Mid-Autumn Festival are definitely: grapefruit and ringo.

Pomelo

1. Pomelo is a homophone for "you" and "bless". Giving grapefruit means: "abundance every year" and "safe blessing"!

2. Pomelo is commonly known as the "reunion fruit". The round shape of the grapefruit symbolizes "beautiful reunion".

Ringko

1. It looks like the Buddha head on the Buddha statue, so it is also commonly known as "Sakyamuni Fruit", which means "good luck and good luck".

2. It has antioxidant effect, delays skin aging, whitens skin, and has very high medicinal and nutritional value.

-04-Wine: Friendship

In addition to drinking Gongfu tea during the Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival, you can also have a drink with relatives and friends: "Raise a glass to the bright moon and make three people in the shadow"! Pair white wine with side dishes, and pair red wine with steak, let’s have fun together!

1. Wine is a homophone for "jiu", and giving wine means "long-lasting friendship," "lasting friendship," and "long-lasting health of relatives and friends."

2. Gift liquor: the shelf life is longer, the longer it is, the more fragrant and mellow it tastes, but don’t be greedy. Anyone who has watched "Wolf Warrior" knows Maotai. Giving this as a gift is both face-saving and collectible!

3. Giving red wine means giving "health and beauty", which can promote skin blood circulation and beautify women.

4. Osmanthus wine: Osmanthus is a homophone for "noble", which means sending "noble people"! The home-brew osmanthus wine featured in Internet celebrity Li Ziqi’s 2018 video is still fresh in my memory. The sweet wine means “sweetness”.

In addition to giving mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the above four kinds of gifts are full of meanings. Everyone, hurry up and choose gifts according to your needs!

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to everyone! May the family be reunited, in good health, prosperous in wealth, and may friendship last forever!