Special foods eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival include: moon cakes, drinking osmanthus wine, eating taro, eating lotus root boxes, eating sweet potatoes, etc.

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.

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.

5. Eat sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a traditional food during the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, when admiring the moon, some places have the custom of eating sweet potatoes.