Lotus is one of the top ten famous flowers in my country. The lotus flowers available for viewing also have their own birthday, which is the Lotus Viewing Festival. The Lotus Viewing Festival, also called the Lotus Picking Festival, is a time when painters, poets and other literati gathered together to enjoy lotuses, drink wine and recite poems. In addition, there are some food customs during the Lotus Festival. So, what should you eat during the Lotus Festival? Let’s take a look!

What to eat during the Lotus Festival

You can taste lotus delicacies during the Lotus Festival. Lotus leaves have a special fragrance and are therefore widely used in food production. Lotus flowers, lotus seeds and lotus roots have been raw materials for food production since ancient times. As early as the Tang Dynasty, people had the custom of eating "green pouch rice" on the Lotus Festival.

Liu Zongyuan's poem "Liuzhou Cave People" says: "The county and the city go south to connect with Tianjin, and they are in different clothes and have different voices. They are incompatible with each other. The green bamboo slips are wrapped in salt and return to the cave, and the green purse is packed with rice while visiting the market." Green Pork Rice is the famous snack in Guangzhou and Fuzhou today.

People in the Song Dynasty liked to mash lotus petals, mix them with rice flour and sugar, and steam them into lotus cakes. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was fashionable to use lotus petals to brew lotus wine. The Empress Dowager Cixi even gave wine made from white lotus as a reward. Give it to your trusted ministers and call it "Jade Liquid and Fine Wine".

The Yujing Rice of the Song Dynasty and the Lotus Seed Porridge of the Yuan Dynasty are both classical delicacies made with lotus seeds as the main raw material. To this day, people still enjoy the delicious tonic made from lotus seeds. Lotus root is the main part of the lotus that people eat. There are a wide variety of dishes made from lotus root, which are loved by people in ancient and modern times.