The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on August 15th. Every festive season, we miss our loved ones more. Mooncakes symbolize reunion and are a must-eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. On festival nights, people also like to eat watermelon and other reunion fruits to wish their families a happy, sweet and safe life. Besides eating mooncakes, what else do we eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What are the food customs during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let’s take a look!

1. Eating mooncakes

Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing tradition in my country custom. The wind is clear, the moon is bright, and the fragrance of cinnamon is refreshing. Every family eats moon cakes and admires the moon, celebrating the reunion with a unique flavor. Moon cakes, as a kind of food shaped like a full moon and filled with delicious fillings, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. The poet and gourmet Su Dongpo once wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them."

2. Drinking osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, think of Wu Gang cutting osmanthus, drink a glass of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrate the family Sweetness and joyful gathering together have become the enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus is not only for viewing, but also has edible value. The Osmanthus Festival is held at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Citizens may wish to go to the eastern suburbs with their families to enjoy the flowers and enjoy the festival.

3. Eating taro

Eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters in many places, and also expresses disbelief in evil spirits. "Chaozhou Fu Zhi" written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it is called peeling ghost skin." Peeling the taro and eating it is like Zhong Kui's spirit of exorcising ghosts.

4. Eating lotus root boxes

Eating lotus roots during the Mid-Autumn Festival also means reunion, especially eating "lotus root boxes". People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang usually slice lotus root into slices, connect the lower ends of each two slices, stuff them with stuffing made of meat, clams, etc., and fry the outside until golden brown. This is also called lotus root cake, which is similar to moon cakes. There are two main varieties of lotus root on the market today, namely seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is mostly cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crispy, sweet, and flawless whiteness. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lotus root changes from cool to warm in nature after being cooked, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach. It has the effects of nourishing the stomach, nourishing yin, and replenishing blood.