It is also indispensable to enjoy the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially to eat moon cakes. Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival was first seen in Su Dongpo's sentence that "small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisp and glutinous rice in them". In the Tang and Five Dynasties, the food for enjoying the moon was only "playing with moon soup". Because of the different eating customs in different parts of the country, there are other foods besides moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. For example, Nanjing people in the south of the Yangtze River love moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival and must eat the famous Jinling dish osmanthus duck. " Sweet-scented osmanthus duck "should be in the market when cinnamon is fragrant, fat but not greasy, delicious." After drinking, you must eat a small sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. The beauty goes without saying. " Guijiang ",named after Qu Yuan's Songs of Chu. Less company life ","aid the north closed xi action cinnamon pulp ". Cinnamomum cassia pulp, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Women in Nanjing are handy and turn the chanting in poems into delicacies on the table. Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is accompanied by osmanthus honey wine. In addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Sichuan Province, people also eat cakes, ducks, sesame cakes and honey cakes. Landlords in guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Youcheng also entertain tenants in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Jimo eats a festive food called "Maijian". Hejian county people think that the mid-autumn rain is bitter rain. If it rains on the Mid-Autumn Festival, local people think that vegetables must taste bad. On mid-autumn night in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, men went boating and climbed the cliff, and women arranged a good banquet. No matter rich or poor, you must eat watermelon.

Mid-Autumn Festival food-moon cakes

"Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival" is a long-standing traditional custom in China. Whenever the weather is clear and the moon is bright and Gui Xiang is refreshing, every family will taste moon cakes and enjoy the moon, which is a special occasion for celebration and reunion. 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 taster, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, and there is crisp and glutinous in it". As a kind of food, it is called "moon cake", which began in the Southern Song Dynasty. Steamed for diet. At that time, Hangzhou folks had the idea of "giving each other moon cakes and getting 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.

Mid-Autumn Festival food-osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the Gui Xiang, drink a cup of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are poems such as "Help the horse to fight and drink cinnamon pulp" and "Drink cinnamon and pepper pulp". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus wine in China has been quite long.

Mid-Autumn Festival food-Pumpkin

Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River. Rich families eat moon cakes, while poor families have the custom of eating pumpkins. How did the custom of "eating pumpkins in August and a half" come from? Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with old parents and only one daughter named Huanghua, who was beautiful, intelligent, kind and hardworking. At that time, years of famine, Huanghua's parents were old and sick, and they were sick in bed and dying. On August 15th that day, Huanghua found two oblate wild melons among the weeds in Nanshan. She picked it back and cooked it for her parents. Delicious and sweet, the two old people have greatly increased their appetite and recovered. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, and many round melons came out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins. From then on, every year on August 15th, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has a custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half.

Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies-snails

As for eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a record in Shunde County Records during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, it is still delicious to eat snails." Folk believe that the mid-autumn snail can improve eyesight. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve eyesight and make sense. But why must we be particularly keen on food during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen, so the meat is particularly fat. It is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival food-taro

Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it also means not believing in evil spirits. The Chaozhou Official Records, which was written before the Qing Dynasty, said, "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, is called peeling ghosts." Stripping ghosts and eating them is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.