The traditional foods eaten on August 15th are:

1. Mooncakes

Eating mooncakes in the 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, which is a festive reunion with a unique flavor. As a kind of food shaped like a full moon and containing good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, wrote a poem, "Little cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and fillings in them". As a kind of food, it is called "moon cake", which began to appear in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Wulin Old Stories Steamed Diet".

At that time, there was a folk saying in Hangzhou that "mooncakes were given to each other to get together in the Mid-Autumn Festival". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, moon cakes had become the Japanese and American points of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Osmanthus Jelly

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when sweet-scented osmanthus blossoms. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will use osmanthus as the most Osmanthus Jelly or soak osmanthus wine. No matter whether it is Osmanthus Jelly or osmanthus wine, it exudes the unique fragrance of osmanthus.

3. Snails

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in their bellies. Therefore, the meat is particularly plump, which is the best time to eat snails. And snail meat is rich in nutrition.

4. Ciba

Ciba is the condensation of a circle, which is always accompanied by a circle. The steamer for steaming glutinous rice, the nest for making rice cake, the dustpan for putting rice cake, and the soybeans, peanuts and sesame seeds for stuffing all exist with the circle.

In some places in Sichuan, osmanthus flowers are added into Ciba, which is pounded to make laurel Ciba, dipped in fried yellow bean and white sugar, which tastes quiet, elegant, sweet and refreshing, and has a unique flavor.

5. Sesame cakes

In addition to eating moon cakes, Sichuanese also eat sesame cakes, honey cakes and so on. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate.

There are also children who put incense on grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "dancing meteor balls". The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County is called "Watching the Meeting" for offering sacrifices to the land gods and performing zaju, vocal music and cultural relics.