1. Eating moon cakes
Eating moon cakes 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, 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 to appear in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Wulin Old Stories Steamed Diet". At that time, Hangzhou folks had "moon cakes to feed each other and take the meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival reunion". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, moon cakes had become the Japanese and American points of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
2. Eat Ducks
Mulao people in Yunnan, China will buy cakes and kill ducks on August 15th to celebrate this traditional festival. In order to commemorate the three sugar sellers who mobilized villagers to kill the ghosts by selling sugar in the village, every family of the monks buys cakes and kills ducks on August 15 every year, so as to educate future generations not to forget the struggle against aggression.
3. Eat 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. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou Prefecture Records" said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, is called peeling ghost skin." Stripping ghosts and eating them is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.
In ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers. Rice and millet are harvested only once a year in autumn in northern rural areas. When it comes to the autumn harvest season, I look at the harvest of a year's hard work and think that the land god and his ancestors secretly bless themselves. Moreover, August 15th is the birthday of the Land God, so we should have a good time. When offering sacrifices to God on August 15th, there is a tribute of taro. Cook the whole taro and put it on a plate, or put the rice noodle taro (rice noodle soup cooked with taro) in a big bowl and put it on the altar to thank the earth god. In ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers. Rice and millet are harvested only once a year in autumn in northern rural areas. When it comes to the autumn harvest season, I look at the harvest of a year's hard work and think that the land god and his ancestors secretly bless themselves. Moreover, August 15th is the birthday of the Land God, so we should have a good time. When offering sacrifices to God on August 15th, there is a tribute of taro. Cook the whole taro and put it on a plate, or put the rice noodle taro (rice noodle soup cooked with taro) in a big bowl and put it on the altar to thank the earth god.
4. Eating 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 in the Mid-Autumn Festival? It was pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the snails were empty, there were no snails in the abdomen, so the meat quality was 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.
5. Eat Pumpkins
Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half is circulating in every household.
It is said that a long time ago, at the foot of Nanshan lived a poor family, 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.
6. Drink osmanthus wine
Every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the Gui Xiang, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus, drink a glass of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. 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.