The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Everyone knows the custom of eating moon cakes. In addition to eating moon cakes, many places will also eat some local specialties and seasonal fruits based on their actual conditions and living customs.

For example, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cantonese people eat moon cakes as well as taro, water chestnuts, snails and grapefruit. Although these traditional foods have different meanings, they all have the meaning of praying for blessings from gods and warding off evil spirits.

How to eat these traditional Mid-Autumn Festival foods?

Taste tea and mooncakes. It is best to drink sweet mooncakes and drink scented tea, which has the wonderful combination of sweet and fragrant. It is better to drink savory mooncakes and drink oolong tea or green tea, which has a refreshing fragrance.

Strong tea and coffee contain high amounts of caffeine, and soda, cola or juice contain a lot of calories and sugar. Eating them with mooncakes is not good for your health and is more greasy.

Pairing sour fruits with mooncakes. There is also something special about eating mooncakes with seasonal fruits.

Choose orange, sour, and vitamin C-rich varieties, such as kiwi, guava, orange, watermelon, and banana.

These fruits can play an antioxidant role in the metabolism of high-fat and high-protein substances, thereby protecting cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

However, fruits such as peaches, plums, apricots, pears and apples contain too much sugar, and durian contains high protein and calories, so they should be eaten in moderation.

Sucking snails and drinking beer. Guangzhou people like to eat snails while admiring the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said to have the effect of "brightening eyes".

Therefore, many people in Guangzhou like to invite close friends or people they like to sit around after dinner, chatting and sucking snails while admiring the moonlight. They also eat with two or three bottles of beer and have a few drinks.

, have a heart-to-heart talk over wine and describe the joys of life.

The method of frying the snails is: fish the snails with water before putting them in the pot, and then stir-fry them with perilla leaves. This can bring out the fresh flavor of the snails.

Since then, stir-fried snails have gradually become a favorite delicacy of Guangzhou people during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Boiled taro dipped in sugar and eaten. There is a custom of eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of Guangdong. It is said to commemorate the historical story of the killing of Tatars in the late Yuan Dynasty.

After the Tatars were killed during the Mid-Autumn Festival, their heads were sacrificed to the moon, and later they were replaced with taro.

To this day, Cantonese people still call it "peeling ghost skin" when peeling taro skin.

The way to eat taro is to boil the whole taro (usually small taro) and put it on a plate. Peel the taro skin and eat it with tea, or dip it in white sugar, honey, or dip it in sweet sauce (slightly salty kind).

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You can also peel and dice cooked taro, stir-fry it with dried shrimps, Chinese sausage, barbecued pork and green onions.

An old man said that if you eat taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival, good luck will come to you.

Pomelo paired with mooncakes makes your mouth feel refreshed. Pomelo is one of the must-haves during the Mid-Autumn Festival, because "pomelo" and "bless" are homophonic, which also means hoping for the blessing of the moon.

After eating sweet mooncakes, eat some sweet and sour grapefruit, which is appetizing, relieves greasiness, and leaves your mouth feeling refreshed.

When eating grapefruit during the Mid-Autumn Festival, peel off the green outer skin of the grapefruit, and then remove the white inner membrane of the grapefruit, which can be cooked and eaten; and dried in the sun, it becomes a natural mosquito repellent!

The method of use is the same as ordinary mosquito coils, but it is natural.

Use water chestnuts to cook porridge to relieve greasiness. Eating water chestnuts during the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children smarter.

Most of the ways to eat water chestnuts are to boil them in water (or salt water), then peel the shells and eat them as a snack; you can also cook the peeled water chestnuts with rice to make a salty white porridge, and eat it after eating the sweet water chestnuts.

After the moon cake, drink a bowl of water chestnut porridge, which will remove a lot of greasiness in your stomach on the spot.

Salty first, then sweet, drink while eating. When eating mooncakes, you should also pay attention: salty first, then sweet.

If there are both sweet and salty mooncakes, eat the salty one first and then the sweet one, otherwise you won’t be able to taste the mooncakes.

Eat and drink.

It is best to drink mooncakes with tea while eating.

This can not only relieve greasiness and prevent dry mouth, but also has the effect of boosting happiness. At the same time, it can also adjust the diet and promote appetite.