1. Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Appreciating the moon and eating mooncakes are essential customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of China. As the saying goes: "August and fifteenth are full, and Mid-Autumn mooncakes are fragrant and sweet."

The term mooncake originated from "Meng Liang Lu" written by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a snack food.

Later, people gradually combined moon appreciation with moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion and expressed their longing for each other.

At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift used to connect friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Drink osmanthus wine. People often eat moon cakes to appreciate the osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat various foods made from the osmanthus, with pastries and candies being the most common.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the osmanthus in the middle of the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a glass of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrating the sweetness of the family has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival.

Nowadays, most people use red wine instead.

3. Eating crabs Hairy crabs are an indispensable Mid-Autumn Festival dish for people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. One piece per person, accompanied by ginger and vinegar, and eating them separately is the best way to kill time.

However, hairy crabs are cool in nature, so you should drink some rice wine to warm your stomach when eating them, and drink a cup of ginger tea after eating, which is good for your health.

4. Eating sesame cakes. In addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sichuan people also make cakes, kill ducks, and eat sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc.

In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate.

There are also children who put incense on the grapefruit and dance it along the street, which is called "Dancing Meteor Incense Ball".

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County, people worship the Earth God, perform dramas, vocal music and cultural relics, which is called "watching party".

5. Eating pumpkins During the Mid-Autumn Festival in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, rich people eat moon cakes, while poor people have the custom of eating pumpkins.

How did the custom of "eating pumpkins in August and a half" come about? Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. Their parents were old and they had only one daughter named Huanghua.

At that time, there were successive years of famine, and Huang Hua's parents were ill. On August 15, Huang Hua found two oblate wild melons in the weeds of Nanshan.

She picked it and cooked it for her parents.

After the two elders ate it, their appetite greatly increased and their illness also improved.

Girl Huanghua planted the melon seeds in the ground. Sure enough, they took root and sprouted the next year, and many round melons grew out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins.

From then on, every August 15th, every household in Jiangnan has the custom of eating old pumpkin and burning glutinous rice in August and a half.

6. Eating glutinous rice cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival in August originated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago. It is a traditional custom that has been passed down to this day in memory of Wu Zixu, the general of Chu State.

Ciba is a kind of token and holy food. In the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, glutinous rice cakes are pounded. The activity of eating glutinous rice cakes and admiring the moon symbolizes the unity, happiness and good fortune of the family.

The stickiness of glutinous rice cakes symbolizes the harmony and unity of the whole family; the sweetness of glutinous rice cakes symbolizes the sweetness and happiness of life; even if you make glutinous rice cakes early in the morning, the earlier you get up, the bigger the harvest will be in the coming year; the large and small circles of glutinous rice cakes symbolize the

People are "destined", happy, auspicious and reunited; of course, eating round glutinous rice cakes naturally symbolizes the harmony, reunion and peace of the whole family.

7. Pomegranate Mid-Autumn Festival is when pomegranates mature.

Because it is as red as agate, as white as crystal, and its mouth is like crystal grains of jade pulp, pomegranate has become one of the table offerings, symbolizing longevity, reunion and good luck.

When this thing is not peeled off, it is more playable than visible. It feels cool and round in the hand. After peeling it off, it is more visible than edible. It looks like small gems gathered together. It looks good.

It also means reunion.