Respect the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival and climb high to avoid disasters. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and they also mean "step by step" and "long life", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.
Double Ninth Festival Food 2: Crab
In some parts of our country, there is a custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs in the north became fat. It has two meanings to say that Chongyang crab is the most beautiful. First, before and after the Double Ninth Festival, the crab meat is delicious and the crab yellow is full. Second, the Double Ninth Festival is a festival of filial piety, and it is getting cold. Prepare a set of warm clothes for elderly parents, send a few delicious Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and make a cup of warm ginger tea to keep the elderly warm in autumn and winter.
Double Ninth Festival Food III: Chestnut Cake
There are two kinds of snacks in Beijing, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main raw material.
The fourth food of Double Ninth Festival: chrysanthemum wine
Jiujiu is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and also homophonic with "wine", so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. Miscellanies of Xijing records that during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the palace "wore dogwood, ate lotus bait and drank chrysanthemum wine on September 9 to make people live longer". Southern Liang also recorded in "Harmony Continuation" that "the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ... the ninth day of September ...
Double Ninth Festival Gourmet Five: Mutton Noodles
"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. If you want to eat white flour, "white" means "100" minus the top "1", which means that 100 minus 1 is 99, in line with the code name of "99". The birthday of a 99-year-old man in Beijing is called "Bai Shou". Wealthy families can hold mutton-based banquets on the same day, such as fried, roasted, rinsed and even whole sheep seats. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm and can keep out the cold.