Eat flower cakes, crabs, chrysanthemum wine, mutton noodles, chrysanthemum cakes and pomegranates on the Double Ninth Festival.

1. Flower cake

This is the most traditional food in the Double Ninth Festival. It has been handed down since the Song Dynasty. Because it is homophonic with Gao, it has the meaning of ascending step by step, which is similar to the meaning of climbing the mountain in the Double Ninth Festival. Many places will make flower cakes on this day.

2. Crabs

When autumn wind comes, the feet of crabs itch, and the wine is mellow and sweet-scented osmanthus. Autumn is the most fertile season for crabs. Crabs are also seasonal food in autumn, and they are also one of the favorite seafood in the Double Ninth Festival.

3. Chrysanthemum wine

There is a custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival, because the wine just sounds the same as nine. On September 9th, people began to drink chrysanthemum wine, smell chrysanthemum flowers and eat flower cakes, which is a great enjoyment in the festival.

4. Mutton noodles

Mutton noodles are eaten on the Double Ninth Festival because it is getting colder and colder in autumn, and it is often necessary to eat mutton tonic, which is good for the health, and at the same time, it has gradually formed the eating method of mutton noodles. Pasta is the favorite of northerners.

5. Chrysanthemum cake

actually originated from Chaoshan, and it has a long history to eat chrysanthemum cake on the Double Ninth Festival, mainly because it is soft and glutinous, melts in the mouth and looks more beautiful than other cakes.

6. Pomegranate

It is also the right time to eat pomegranate on the Double Ninth Festival. Pomegranate meat contains seeds, which means many children and many blessings, and also symbolizes unity, happiness and well-being.