The Double Ninth Festival respects the elderly and climbs high to avoid disaster. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and they also mean "step by step" and "longevity", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.
Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, can be made at will, including "coarse flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". Stick some coriander leaves as a sign, and put rough dried fruits such as olives, dates and walnuts in the middle; There are three or two layers of exquisite flower cakes, and each layer contains exquisite candied dried fruits, such as apples, peaches, apricots and dates. Money flower cake is basically the same as fine flower cake, but smaller, like "money", which is mostly the food of upper-class nobles.
It is said that in early years, people did not put dates and chestnuts on flour cakes, nor steamed sticky cakes made of glutinous rice and yellow wheat. This sticky cake looked like a flower cake with "golden noodles" and "silver noodles".
Double Ninth Festival Food 2: Crab
In some areas of our country, there is the custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs in the north became fat. It has two meanings to say that Chongyang crab is the most beautiful. First, before and after the Double Ninth Festival, the crab meat is delicious and the crab yellow is full. Second, the Double Ninth Festival is a festival of filial piety, and the weather is getting colder and colder. Prepare a set of warm clothes for elderly parents, send some delicious Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and then rush to a cup of warm ginger tea to keep the elderly warm in autumn and winter.
Double Ninth Festival Food III: Chestnut Cake
In Beijing, there are two kinds of snacks specially eaten during the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake, and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main material.
Its practice is to peel raw chestnuts, steam them and mash them into mud, and prepare large pieces of Beijing cakes and sand stuffing. Divide 200 grams of chestnut paste into three parts, spread one part as the bottom layer, then spread a layer of Beijing cake, then smooth one part on the Beijing cake, and then spread a layer of sand stuffing. The last part of the chestnut paste was painted on the top floor, and the pattern was made of Beijing cake slices cut into small water chestnuts and thin green plums. When eating, pour the sugar juice made of white sugar and osmanthus on it.
The fourth food of Double Ninth Festival: chrysanthemum wine
Jiujiu is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and also homophonic with "wine", so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. "Miscellanies of Xijing" records that during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the palace "wore cornus on September 9th, ate lotus bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, which made people live longer". The Southern Liang Dynasty also recorded "the ninth day of September" in Continued Harmony. At that time, people regarded chrysanthemum wine as "auspicious wine" and thought that it was necessary to drink it on the Double Ninth Festival to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings.
In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year. On September 9, people picked newly blooming chrysanthemums and a little green branches and leaves, mixed them with grain for brewing, then used them together to make wine, and put them on September 9 next year for drinking. It is said that drinking this wine can prolong life. "The Chronology of Jingchu's Age" says: "On September 9th, Pei Pei ate lotus ears and drank chrysanthemum wine to prolong his life." During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people added a variety of herbs to chrysanthemum wine, and the effect was better. The preparation method comprises squeezing Flos Chrysanthemi, decocting, brewing with yeast and rice, or adding Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Fructus Lycii, etc.
Double Ninth Festival Gourmet Five: Mutton Noodles
"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. If you want to eat white flour, "white" means "100" minus the top "1", which means that 100 minus 1 is 99 to meet the code of "99". The birthday of a 99-year-old man in Beijing is called "centenary". Wealthy families can hold a banquet with mutton as the main part on the same day, such as exploding, roasting, rinsing and even whole lamb seats. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep. Mutton is warm and can keep out the cold.
Compared with pork and beef, mutton is tender, high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol, so it is very suitable for the elderly. In order to make mutton noodles taste good, it is very important to cook mutton soup. Be sure to cook the soup as white as milk and the meat thoroughly, which is more conducive to the digestion of the elderly. The ancients who paid attention to health paid attention to autumn tonic, and mutton was the best tonic, so Chongyang wanted to eat sheep. Hope to adopt