The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on August 15th. During every festive occasion, we miss our loved ones even more. Mooncakes symbolize reunion and are a must-eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

On festival nights, people also like to eat watermelon and other reunion fruits to wish their families a happy, sweet and safe life.

Besides eating mooncakes, what else should we eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What are the food customs on the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let’s take a look! 1. Eating mooncakes Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in my country.

The wind is clear, the moon is bright, and the fragrance of cinnamon is refreshing. Every family eats moon cakes and admires the moon, celebrating the reunion with a unique flavor.

Moon cakes, as a kind of food shaped like a full moon and filled with delicious fillings, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The poet and gourmet Su Dongpo once wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them."

2. Drink osmanthus wine. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the bright moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, and think of Wu Gang cutting osmanthus. Drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine to celebrate the sweetness of the family and gather together has become a holiday enjoyment.

Osmanthus is not only for viewing, but also has edible value.

The Osmanthus Festival is held at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Citizens may wish to go to the eastern suburbs with their families to enjoy the flowers and enjoy the festival.

3. Eating taro During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating taro means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters in many places, and it also means not believing in evil spirits.

"Chaozhou Fu Zhi" written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it is called peeling ghost skin."

Peeling the taro and eating it is like Zhong Kui's spirit of exorcising ghosts.

4. Eating lotus root boxes During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating lotus roots also means reunion, especially eating "lotus root boxes".

People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang usually slice lotus root into slices, connect the lower ends of each two slices, stuff them with meat, clams, etc., and fry the outside until golden brown. This is also called lotus root cake, which is similar to moon cakes.

There are two main varieties of lotus root on the market today, namely seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root.

Seven-hole lotus root is mostly cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crispy, sweet, and flawless whiteness.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus root changes from cool to warm in nature after being cooked, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach. It has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, and replenishing blood.