1, Chung Yeung cake: Chung Yeung cake is one of the main food of Chung Yeung Festival, China's southern and northern part of this food is very winning. The north to flour cake for more, the south to glutinous rice flour cake for more. The northern part of the Chongyang cake, there are oil candy stove, there are hair flour flower and fruit steamed cake. Steamed cake is the flour fermentation, buckle into a small bowl, the bottom of each small bowl to put a variety of flowers and fruits, such as jujubes, nuts, candied red silk, green silk, etc., on the cage steam, after steaming will be poured out of the cake, it is just a variety of fruits and flowers in the cake on top, and was steamed bread-like. Noodle hair Chongyang cake, sweet and soft, very tasty. Southern Chung Yeung cake is based on glutinous rice flour, rubbed with water, plus food pond on the cage steaming, to be cooked and cooled, cut into a diamond shape, cake is very small, it seems that a mouthful of a piece to eat. Regardless of the North and South, Chongyang cake on the cut five-color paper color flag inserted on the cake.
2, Chrysanthemum buns: steamed with white flour into a round tower-shaped mold, mold inserted jujuying, mugwort leaves and other flowers. On this day, every family to climb the field trip, this white flour steamed Chongyang touch both hunger, but also easy to carry. Chrysanthemum mold is mostly for the northwest of China's Chrysanthemum Festival food.
3, patty cake Chongyang cake: patty cake for the southwest of China's Chongyang Festival food. On this day, every family with glutinous rice patties, friends and relatives invited each other to eat skimming handle, drink rice wine, "*** celebration of the harvest" meaning. Folk song: "September 9, drink spicy wine, eat nuclear handle, celebrate the harvest." Therefore, the southwest region is also known as the Chongyang Festival for patty cake festival.
4, chrysanthemum wine: Chongyang Festival families are competing to drink chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemum wine is brewed in September every year when the chrysanthemums are in full bloom, but the brewing year can't be consumed in that year, and it needs to wait for one to two years to be brewed into chrysanthemum dew juice (the top quality chrysanthemums will be picked, and then put in a cool place to Yinqian, soaked into the brewing of good shochu wine). When consumed, 1 tael of chrysanthemum dew juice is dissolved in every 5 pounds of white wine, i.e. chrysanthemum wine. This wine has a pure texture, golden color, sweet taste, rich and chrysanthemum aroma, and a long aftertaste. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was used as a medicinal wine to get rid of injuries and tonify the body, and it is indeed beneficial to the human body to start drinking it at the Chongyang Festival when autumn and winter come.
5, chrysanthemum soup: Chrysanthemum soup is also customary for the Chung Yeung Festival, which is said to be able to get rid of diseases. Fresh chrysanthemums will be picked and washed, put into the pottery or porcelain cookware (not iron), first boiled over high heat, and then transferred to the fire slowly simmering. Drinking it with a little rock sugar or honey is good for the human body. On this day, children are not good at drinking chrysanthemum wine, so most of them drink chrysanthemum soup. In the old days, many parents also used chrysanthemum soup broth and flower residue for children to take a bath, that chrysanthemum water bath can remove skin diseases.