1, chestnut cake: Beijing's snacks there are two are designed to eat on the Chongyang Festival, one for the flower cake, a chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made from chestnut puree. It is the practice of raw chestnuts peeled and steamed and mashed into mud, and ready to cut a large piece of Jing cake and chengha filling, the chestnut mud into three parts, made of the top, middle and bottom of the yellow, sandwiched in the middle of the chestnut cake in red and brown color five layers. When you eat it, you can pour sugar sauce boiled with white sugar and sugar cinnamon on top.

2, Chung Yeung cake: Chung Yeung Festival to honor the elderly, climbing high to avoid disasters. "Cake" and "high" homophonic, but also "step by step", "longevity nine nine" meaning, so the "Chrysanthemum cake has become the most popular holiday food. Chrysanthemum cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random, there are "brown flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake. Stick some coriander leaves as a sign, the middle of the fruits, jujubes, walnuts and other brown dried fruit; fine flower cake has 3 layers, 2 layers, each layer is sandwiched in the middle of the finer candied fruits, such as dried apples, dried peaches, dried apricots, jujubes and so on; money and fine flower cake cake is basically the same, but smaller, as "money" in general, mostly upper-class It is said that in the early years, no one used to make cakes at home. It is said that in the early years, not at home with the hairy cake sandwiched between dates, chestnuts and other fruits, or river rice, yellow rice flour steamed into a sticky cake, like "on the gold", "under the silver" of the flower cake.

3, chrysanthemum wine: nine nine and "long time" homophonic, and "wine" is also homophonic, and therefore derived from nine nine to drink chrysanthemum wine of this statement. Xijing Miscellany" records, Han Gaozu, the palace, "September 9 to wear cornelian cherry, eat lotus bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, people live long". In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was brewed for the second year's Chrysanthemum Festival. On the ninth day of September, people picked the first bloom of chrysanthemums and a little verdant branches and leaves, mixed in the grain ready to brew, and then used together to brew wine, and put it to drink on the ninth day of September of the next year. Legend has it that drinking this kind of wine can prolong one's life.

4, eat mochi: eat mochi, is another food custom of the Chung Yeung Festival in southwest China. Mochi is divided into soft sweet, hard salty two kinds. The practice is to wash the glutinous rice into the pot of boiling water, a boil that is fishing, steamed in a cage, and then put the mortar pounded, rubbed into a ball can be. When consumed, the sesame seeds fried, pounded into fine powder, the patty cake ball rolled into strips, pulled into small pieces, mixed with sesame seeds, sugar and so on. The flavor is sweet and pleasant, known as "soft patties" (the best warm food). Hard patties, also known as "oil patties", the practice is not pounded after steaming glutinous rice, rolled into a ball on the case, rolled out and put some salt and pepper into the "filling core", then rolled and sliced, and then deep-fried into the frying pan, into the color of the golden beautiful, salty and crispy, a person will have a long lasting memory.

5, mutton noodles: "sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the ceremony of the Chongyang. On that day, you can hold a banquet with mutton as the main dish, and you can eat, bake, shabu-shabu, or even a whole goat banquet. Autumn is the season when sheep are the fattest, and mutton is warm, so it can protect you from the cold. Compared with pork and beef, lamb is tender, high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol, making it ideal for the elderly. Mutton soup should be boiled until the soup white as milk, meat should be rotten more conducive to the digestion of the elderly. Focus on health care of the ancients pay attention to the fall tonic, and mutton is the best tonic ingredients, and thus the Chung Yeung to eat sheep.

6, crab: generally in some parts of China's Chongyang Festival has the custom of eating crab. Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, the north of the crab is fat. Before and after the Chongyang Festival, crab meat meat is delicious, crab fat, the day gradually cooled, eat a few fresh Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, washed with a cup of warm ginger tea, warm and warm over the fall and winter. Before and after the Chongyang Festival, that is, when the northwest wind rises, the crab is the best time, female crabs only full, male crabs only paste fat. Crab is rich in protein and is known as a high-quality protein food. Crab meat is more delicate, and crab fat content is very low, but the fat-soluble vitamins A, E and B vitamins are higher, especially in the crab yolk is rich in vitamin A, which is beneficial to vision and skin health.