Zhejiang Mid-Autumn Festival gourmet
Stewed bass with water shield in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province became a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, not only because the water shield and bass were delicious at this time, but also because of the historical fact that Hans Zhang abandoned his post and returned to his hometown because of homesickness. This story has not only become a beautiful talk for generations, but also made water shield a symbol of homesickness. Water shield is a family banquet for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also a seasonal soup in August. Water shield, also known as horseshoe and watercress, is an aquatic perennial leafy herb. The roots, stems and leaves of water shield are not only green and delicious, but also nutritious. Water shield can be picked in spring and autumn, but it is best to pick more water shield in autumn.
Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival gourmet
Traditional moon cakes in old Beijing include natural red invitation, natural white invitation and moon cakes with stuffing. Syrup moon cake refers to a method of making moon cake skin. It is said that the popular point of "extracting syrup" is to boil the syrup out and add a certain proportion of big oil to the skin to make it crisp. Muslims change big oil into butter when they buy it. This kind of moon cake is characterized by crispy skin and fragrant stuffing, which "old Beijing" likes to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In terms of dishes, crabs are delicious in August and autumn, and Mid-Autumn Festival is the time to taste crabs, especially in Beijing.
Guizhou Mid-Autumn Festival gourmet
Guizhou-style moon cakes are different from Cantonese-style moon cakes. They are water-oil skins made of 500 grams of flour, pig fat, syrup and water. Mix 250 grams of flour with lard and knead it into a "dry cake". After the ingredients are mixed separately, the dry pastry is wrapped with oil skin, and the pastry is made into 40 grams of pastry blanks, and then each pastry is pressed into a round cake skin for later use. Bake sesame seeds, melon seeds and walnuts, chop into fine particles, mix, add cooked ham powder, jujube, mashed melon, cooked flour, crystal sugar and salt, and mix well to form stuffing. Wrap a proper amount of stuffing in the crust, press it into an oblate shape, face down, put it into an oiled baking pan, and bake it in an oven with top fire of 2 10℃ and bottom fire of 0 180℃ for 15~20 minutes until the surface is golden and the inside is mature. Golden color, crisp shell and distinct layers; The stuffing is sweet and salty, sweet and refreshing, and rich in nutrition. The master said that the pastry layer should be thin and even, and a piece of white oil paper should be placed on the baking tray when the moon cake blank is put into the baking tray.
Fujian mid-autumn festival gourmet
Minnan people have the custom of eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is the fattest season for ducks. Fujian people cook ducks with betel nut taro, which is rich in Fujian. It's called betel nut taro roast duck, and it tastes very good. Areca taro is a dioscoreaceae crop, also known as Lipu taro, which is mainly produced in coastal areas such as Guangxi and Fujian, and has a history of thousands of years. At present, Lipu County in Guangxi, Pingle, Gongcheng and Minnan in Fujian are the main producing areas. Areca taro is oval. This variety is also called "Areca taro" because its skin is rough and there are areca seeds inside. Planting in the vernal equinox every year, the first frost can be harvested. Each plant has a unique mother taro and small taro of different sizes. Areca taro is a high-quality vegetable with high starch content, tender meat, unique flavor and rich nutrition, which contains crude protein, starch, vitamins and inorganic salts. Has the effects of invigorating qi and kidney, and strengthening spleen and stomach. It is not only the first-class raw material for making snacks and delicious food, but also a good nutrient for nourishing the body. In Qing dynasty, it was listed as a tribute of Qing dynasty, so it was called "royal tribute".
Shandong mid-autumn festival gourmet
On August 15, farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province offered sacrifices to the land god, which was called "Young Miao Society". Zhucheng, Linyi, Jimo and other places have to pay homage to their ancestors in addition to the moon. Landlords in guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Postal City also entertain their tenants in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival eats a kind of holiday food called "Wheat Arrow".
Jiangsu mid-autumn festival gourmet
People in Nanjing, Jiangsu love to eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they must eat the famous Jinling dish osmanthus duck. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be listed in Gui Xiang. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp on it. Beauty speaks for itself. "Guijiang" was named after Qu Yuan's Songs of the South, Little Commandments and Drinking Guijiang to Help the North Close its doors. Cinnamon pulp is a kind of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Jiangnan women are handy, turning the chanting in poetry into delicacies on the table. People in Nanjing enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", the group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".
Guangdong Mid-Autumn Festival gourmet
There are many kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies in Chaoshan, Guangdong, which are closely related to the cultural connotation, tidal climate and agricultural production of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It can be mainly divided into three categories: first, cakes, moon cakes from all over Chaoshan, sweet, salty, meat, assorted and tasty. There are also cakes, soft cakes and cloud cakes, all of which are Mid-Autumn Festival cakes. It is good for hipsters to send relatives. It can be said that it is a custom for hipsters to send moon cakes to relatives. Second, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the intertidal zone, when the sky is crisp and the fruit is ripe, grapefruit, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive and banana are another kind of food for Mid-Autumn hipsters. Thirdly, the agricultural taro and pumpkin used by hipsters to make taro paste and melon pulp are also deeply loved by hipsters. Among them, Mid-Autumn Moon Cake is an annual traditional food for hipsters. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is not a Chaoshan person who doesn't taste moon cakes. Although moon cakes can have various shapes and Chaoshan areas have their own characteristics, they all have a common feature, that is, they are required to be round. Taro, Ciba, etc. It is also necessary for hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Taiwan Province Mid-Autumn Festival gourmet
Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province Province has a strong culture of raising water ducks. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most tender time for water ducks. Hakkas in Meinong area often slaughter water ducks and add vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a major feature of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan will also eat a kind of food called "vegetable cakes". Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. In Tainan, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of eating potatoes. In recent years, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province has developed a new activity-barbecue.
In addition, a food company in Taiwan Province Province introduced a new concept of Mid-Autumn Snow Moon Cake according to the different demands of consumption level and the lingering summer heat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What is snow moon cake? Ice cream moon cakes are ice cream moon cakes, which are cool and smooth in taste. There are three kinds of fillings-champagne sweetheart, Hawaiian party and Viennese coffee. This moon cake is also beautifully packaged in full Japanese style, and the Baolilong packaging box with thermal insulation function ensures that the ice cream will not melt in a certain period of time.
What are the Mid-Autumn Festival customs of Miao people?
Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a traditional festival of Han nationality, but also a traditional festival of many ethnic minorities in China, including Miao nationality. Moreover, jumping on the moon is a unique custom of Miao nationality, and it is also a very pleasing dance.
Miao people hold "jumping on the moon" activities.
According to the custom of the Miao people's Mid-Autumn Festival, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, the bright moonlight fills the Miao family's hut. After the Miao men and women get together, they all want to sing and dance in the open space of the forest and hold a "jumping on the moon" activity.
According to an ancient Miao legend, Moon is a loyal, honest, hardworking and brave young man. There is a beautiful young girl named Shuiqing. She turned down 99 young men who proposed to her in Jiujiuzhou and fell in love with the moon. Finally, she also experienced all kinds of hardships made by the sun, and finally happily combined with the moon.
In order to commemorate their happy love, Miao parents have danced Miao songs and dances in the Mid-Autumn Festival night for generations, bathed in the glory of the moon, and called this custom of Miao Mid-Autumn Festival "jumping on the moon". Young men and women look for each other's sweetheart in the "jumping on the moon" and pour out their feelings, saying that they should be as pure and bright as water and the moon and have a good relationship forever.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of finding children is still popular in many places. This is the embodiment of ancient fertility worship. This is because the moon belongs to the Yin, that is, the goddess, and there are activities to pursue love, so the custom of seeking children is circulating in the Mid-Autumn Festival custom. Customs of finding children vary from place to place.
Because the Mid-Autumn Festival custom of Miao nationality is quite special, if you have the opportunity to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival activities of Miao nationality, you may wish to experience the fun of the Mid-Autumn Festival custom of Miao nationality.
What to eat in Mid-Autumn Festival?
Eat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion. As a kind of food that looks like a full moon and contains good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous inside". As a kind of food, it is called "moon cake", which first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Steamed Food from Wulin". At that time, there was a folk saying in Hangzhou that "mooncakes were fed to each other, which meant Mid-Autumn Festival reunion". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become the Japanese and American styles of Mid-Autumn Festival.
Eat duck
Mulao people in Yunnan, China will buy cakes to kill ducks on August 15 to celebrate this traditional festival. In order to commemorate the three sugar sellers who sold sugar in the village and mobilized villagers to kill ghosts, every year on August 15, monks bought cakes to kill ducks, educating future generations not to forget the anti-aggression struggle.
Eat taro
Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not to believe in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou County Records" said: "Playing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cutting taro and eating it is called peeling the ghost skin." Stripping ghosts and eating ghosts is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.