The representative foods of Mid-Autumn Festival are moon cakes and crabs, and there are also different representative foods in different places.

1. Guangdong

There are many kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival food in Chaoshan, which can be mainly divided into three categories: first, cakes, moon cakes from all over Chaoshan, sweet, salty, meaty, assorted and multi-flavored. There are also cakes, soft cakes and cloud cakes, all of which are Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, which are good for hipsters to send relatives. It can be said that it is a custom for hipsters to send moon cakes to relatives.

Second, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the tidal region, when the sky is crisp and the fruit is ripe, pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive and banana are another kind of food for the hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Third, agricultural taro and pumpkin, which are used by hipsters to make taro paste and melon pulp, are also popular among hipsters. Taro, Ciba, etc. are also necessary for hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Zhejiang

The reason why the water shield bass stew in Hangzhou became a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was not only because the water shield bass was delicious at this time, but also because of the historical fact that Hans Zhang abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown by homesickness. This story not only became an eternal beauty talk, but also made water shield. Water shield is a Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner and a seasonal dish soup in August.

water shield, also known as horseshoe grass and water spinach, is an aquatic perennial leafy grass plant. The roots, stems and leaves of water shield are not only green and fragrant, fresh and delicious, but also nutritious.

3. Sichuan

In addition to eating moon cakes, Sichuanese also eat cakes, sesame cakes, honey cakes and so on. Sichuanese also kill ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In western Sichuan, smoked ducks are a must-have for Mid-Autumn Festival, because at that time, the raw ducks had grown up and were fat and thin.

The young ducks born in the same year were selected by the master, after being slaughtered, their feathers faded, their internal organs were removed, after being washed, their wing tips and duck feet were removed, salted overnight, slightly scalded in boiling water until their skins were tight, removed, wiped dry, put in a smoking stove, smoked with straw until they were brown, put out of the stove and marinated in a pot, and changed to a knife when eating, with golden red color, tender and smoky meat.

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Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1. Appreciating the moon

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, there has been a custom of appreciating the moon since ancient times in China, and it is recorded in the Book of Rites that "the moon falls in the evening", that is, worshipping the moon god. In the Zhou dynasty, every mid-autumn night was held to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon. Set up a big incense table and put on seasonal fruits such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. Watermelon has to be cut into lotus shapes.

2. Eating moon cakes

People in urban and rural areas in China have the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As the saying goes, "The full moon is on August 15th, and the moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes were originally used as sacrifices to the moon god. The word "moon cakes" first appeared in Wu Zimu's Dream of the Liang Lu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Linghua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncake tasting, which symbolizes family reunion.

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