Customs around Mid-Autumn Festival: enjoy the moon, Yue Bai, play with lanterns and dance with fire dragons.
Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is a well-known custom. In addition to eating moon cakes, many places will eat some special products and seasonal fruits according to local customs. For example, Guangdong people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, while eating moon cakes, they also have the traditional custom of eating taro and grapefruit. Although these traditional foods have different meanings, they all have the good meaning of praying for God's blessing, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters.
Eating water chestnut in Mid-Autumn Festival represents cleverness and profit. Most of the ways to eat water chestnuts are to cook water chestnuts, and then shell them as snacks. You can also cook peeled water chestnut with rice into rice congee to neutralize the sweet and greasy moon cakes.
Because of the different dietary customs in different parts of the country, there are other foods besides moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. On mid-autumn night in Shaanxi, men went boating on cliffs and ate watermelons. For example, Nanjing people must eat osmanthus duck in Mid-Autumn Festival. Sweet-scented osmanthus duck is fat but not greasy when cinnamon is fragrant, and it tastes delicious; Nanjing people must eat a sugar taro after drinking, and pour it with cinnamon pulp, which goes without saying that it is delicious. Sichuanese have to eat rice cakes and sesame cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
There is also osmanthus wine. Every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the Gui Xiang, drink a cup of osmanthus wine and have a sweet family, which has become a kind of festival.
Steamed pumpkins, on August 15th every year, the custom of "eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half" is circulating in every household in the south of the Yangtze River.
As for eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, people believe that snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. The reason why we want to eat it in the Mid-Autumn Festival is because the meat is particularly fat before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Guangzhou, many families still have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the food customs in different places are different and colorful, but the meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival for China people is the same. Under the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is a good wish of China people from ancient times to the present. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, for people who are away from home, making a phone call with their families and giving a greeting is also a way to reduce their thoughts during the Mid-Autumn Festival. They have expectations and warmth in their hearts.