Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it also means not to believe in evil spirits. Chaozhou Official Records written before the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and peeling taro to eat is called peeling ghosts." Stripping ghosts and eating ghosts is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.

August 15 is also called People's Day by the people. Laiyang usually eats taro in the morning, which is called early adopter. At this time, taro is not the best harvest season, but because taro has the homonym of "taro", people want to have a good time and a surplus, so they should plant some taro to taste during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is a saying in Chaoshan: "When the river is opposite to the mouth, you will eat taro." August is the harvest season of taro, and farmers are used to using taro to worship their ancestors. It is understood that taro is flat and suitable for almost everyone. It can benefit the stomach and spleen, replenish the middle energizer, relieve loss of appetite, physical weakness and enhance human immunity, especially for the weak. At the same time, it helps to maintain skin elasticity and delay aging.

Legend of the origin of eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival

In ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers. In northern rural areas, rice and millet are harvested only once a year in autumn. In the autumn harvest season, I looked at the hard harvest of a year and thought of the land god and his ancestors secretly blessing themselves.

And August 15 is the birthday of the land god, so it's better than that. On August 15, there was a tribute of taro. Cook the whole taro and put it on a plate, or put the rice noodle taro (rice noodle soup cooked with taro) in a big bowl and put it on the altar to thank the land god.