Mid-Autumn Festival dinner recipes include moon cakes, osmanthus wine, lotus root boxes, snails and osmanthus ducks.

1. Moon cakes

Watching the moon and eating moon cakes are the necessary customs for Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China. As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and the moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes are also important gifts for friends to connect their feelings during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Osmanthus fragrans wine

People often eat moon cakes to enjoy osmanthus fragrans in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat all kinds of foods made by osmanthus fragrans, among which cakes and sweets are the most common. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smelling the Gui Xiang, drinking a cup of osmanthus wine and celebrating the sweetness of the family have become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival.

3. Lotus root box

Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival also means sending a reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, and the stuffing made of meat and clam is sandwiched in the middle, and the noodles are fried until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes.

4. Snails

Eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival is recorded in Shunde County Records during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, "Looking at the sun in August, it is still delicious to eat snails." Folk believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. And before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen, and the meat is particularly fat, so it is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

5. Sweet-scented osmanthus duck

There are also various folk customs in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangnan area. Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be in the market when cinnamon is fragrant, fat but not greasy, and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. The beauty goes without saying. "Cinnamon pulp" is named after Qu Yuan's "Songs of the South, Less Commandments" and "Helping the North to close its doors and drink cinnamon pulp".

Guihua, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plums. Women in the south of the Yangtze River are skillful in turning the chanting in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and traveling in the market is called "walking on the moon".