The delicacies of the Mid-Autumn Festival include: moon cakes, osmanthus wine, crabs, and glutinous rice cakes.
1. Moon cakes: Moon cakes are also called moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc. They are tributes to the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times.
Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded appreciating the moon and tasting mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion.
Moon cakes symbolize reunion, and people regard them as festive food, using them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends.
2. Osmanthus wine: Osmanthus wine is sweet and mellow, has a low alcohol content, is not easy to get drunk, and has a beautiful and transparent color. It can be drunk all year round and is suitable for men, women and children.
3. Crabs: As the saying goes, "The sound of the west wind makes crabs' legs itch." It is said that during the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, crab meat is rich and thick, which is the best time to taste it, so it is very popular among people.
Crab is rich in nutrients, especially the protein content is several times higher than that of pork and fish.
After the crabs are steamed with cattail bags, everyone sits around and tastes them, served with wine and vinegar.
After eating, drink Su Ye Decoction and wash your hands with it.
While eating crabs, the family gathered around and chatted, enjoying the delicious food and the warmth of the family.
4. Glutinous rice cake: Eating glutinous rice cake during the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. People regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a lunar festival second only to the Spring Festival, and is known as the "Little New Year".
During the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, rice cakes are pounded, and eating rice cakes while admiring the moon symbolizes family unity, happiness, and good fortune.
The stickiness of glutinous rice cakes indicates the harmony and unity of the whole family; the sweetness of glutinous rice cakes indicates the sweetness and happiness of life; making glutinous rice cakes early in the morning means that the earlier you get up, the bigger the harvest will be in the coming year; enjoying the round glutinous rice cakes symbolizes the harmony and unity of the whole family.
, peace and quiet.
The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival: Hou Yi was deeply respected and loved by the people all over the world because he shot down the nine suns in the sky to eliminate harm for the people.
Then he married the beautiful and kind-hearted Chang'e as his wife.
One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek enlightenment. He happened to meet the Queen Mother who was passing by. So he asked the Queen Mother for two elixirs of immortality. Taking one pill would make him immortal, and taking two pills would make him ascend to heaven and become an immortal. Hou Yi couldn't bear it.
He left his wife and ascended to heaven, so he gave the two elixirs to Chang'e to keep.
Hou Yi had an apprentice named Peng Meng, who was a villain. When Chang'e hid the elixir in the treasure box, he peeped at it and started developing the elixir.
Three days later, Hou Yi led his disciples to hunt. Peng Meng claimed that he was ill and did not go. After Hou Yi left, he held a sword and threatened Chang'e to hand over the elixir.
Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, so she quickly opened the treasure box and swallowed the two elixirs in one breath.
After Chang'e swallowed the elixir, she immediately felt light and able to fly, so she flew out of the window and into the sky.