It is also indispensable to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, especially eating moon cakes. Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival was first seen in Su Dongpo's sentence "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and sweet taste in the middle."
In addition to eating mooncakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet custom is also a major feature. Among the earliest Mid-Autumn banquet customs of the Han people in ancient times, the palace was the most elegant. In the Ming Dynasty, it was fashionable to eat crabs in the palace. After the crabs were steamed with cattail bags, everyone sat around and tasted them, accompanied by wine and vinegar. After eating, drink Su Ye Decoction and wash your hands with it. During the banquet area, flowers, pomegranates and other seasonal fresh food were placed, and mythological dramas of the Mid-Autumn Festival were performed. The Qing palace often placed a screen facing east in a certain courtyard, with cockscombs, edamame, taro, peanuts, radishes and fresh lotus roots placed on both sides of the screen. There is an Eight Immortals table in front of the screen, with an extra-large moon cake placed on it, surrounded by pastries and fruits. The mooncakes made in the Qing Dynasty are so huge that it is unimaginable. For example, the moon cake that the last emperor Pu Yi presented to the Minister of Internal Affairs Shao Ying was "about two feet in diameter and weighing about twenty kilograms."
Due to different dietary customs across the country, in addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are also other moon cakes. There are other delicacies, such as Nanjing people in the Jiangnan area who like to eat moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they must eat Jinling's famous dish Osmanthus Duck. "Osmanthus Duck" is available when the osmanthus is fragrant. It is fat but not greasy and delicious.
< p> After drinking, you must eat a small amount of sugared taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. It is so delicious. The famous sugar osmanthus is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and pickled plums. Nanjing women are skillful in turning the poem into a table delicacy. In addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they also eat cakes, ducks, sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc. Landowners in Guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao, Youcheng and other places also entertain their tenants during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jimo eats a special meal during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The food is called "Wheat Arrow". People in Hejian County believe that the Mid-Autumn rain is bitter rain. If it rains during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the locals believe that the vegetables must taste bad. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, the men go boating up the cliff, and the women arrange a feast. Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, you must eat watermelon.The custom of raising teal ducks is very popular in Kaohsiung County, Taiwan. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the ducks are young and tender. Slaughtering teal and eating vegetables has become a local Mid-Autumn Festival feature. In addition to moon cakes, vegetable cakes are also eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan. Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. In Tainan, there is a custom of eating mochi during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In recent years, a new activity has developed during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan - barbecue.
Today, many places still retain it. In addition to enjoying the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, and having a Mid-Autumn banquet, there are also special Mid-Autumn Festival customs such as the fire dragon dance in Hong Kong, the pagoda building in Anhui, the tree Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, the burning pagodas in Jinjiang, watching the moon in Shihu, Suzhou, and the Dai people. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, edamame is a must-have dish for citizens, and folklore says that eating edamame means having more children. Many grandchildren, reunion and good luck.
Why do you peel the pods and eat the beans? Grandma said: The five beans in the pod are your brothers. Your mother treats you equally and does not favor one or the other. You need to take special care of her. You were cared for like this when you were young. When you grow up, your mother will be like peeling off this pod, and you will leave her... Peeling off the pod every Mid-Autumn Festival is to let you remember this "pod". (Home).