2, mutton noodles. Chongyang Festival to eat mutton noodles. "Sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the ceremony of Chung Yeung. Face to eat white noodles, "white" is "hundred" word off the top of the "one", a hundred minus one for ninety-nine symbolism, in order to respond to the "nine nine It is the symbol of "one hundred minus one", which means "one hundred minus one" is ninety-nine, in order to fulfill the "Nine Nine". Mutton is warm, beneficial to the gas to supplement the deficiency, warming the warmth of the next, the treatment of fatigue and thinness, lumbar and knee pain and weakness, five labor seven injuries. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, mutton is known as a warm tonic that replenishes the vital energy and benefits the blood.
3, crab. Chongyang Festival eating, and crabs. Autumn wind, crab fat, this time is the lake crab market, Jiangnan good season to eat crab. Crab is rich in protein, known as high-quality protein food. Crab meat is more delicate, muscle fibers contain more than 10 kinds of free amino acids, including glutamic acid, proline, arginine content is more, on the need to supplement the nutritional benefits of people.
4, flower cake. Chrysanthemum Festival to eat the cause of the flower cake due to the Chrysanthemum climbing custom. There are mountains where you can climb mountains, and no mountains to climb the place, the idea of finding compensation and alternative, because the "cake" and "high" resonance, there is a Chrysanthemum Festival to eat the custom of flower cake.
5, figs. Modern research has found that figs contain psoralen, Buddha citrus lactone and other active ingredients and aromatic substances such as benzaldehyde, can inhibit cancer cell production, can prevent liver cancer, gastric cancer, delay, inhibit the development or deterioration of transplantation sarcoma, spontaneous breast cancer, lymphosarcoma, and ultimately, can lead to tumor necrosis, degeneration. Figs contain a large number of sugars, lipids, proteins, fiber, vitamins, inorganic salts and essential amino acids and other nutrients, can improve the immune function.
6, chestnut cake. Beijing's snacks there are two is dedicated to the Chongyang Festival when eating, one for the flower cake, a chestnut cake. Chestnut cake, is made with chestnut mud as the main ingredient. The way it is done is to peel the raw chestnuts and steam them, then pound them into puree, and prepare a large slice of jinggao and the filling, divide 200 grams of chestnut puree into 3 parts, spread one part of it as the bottom layer, and then spread a layer of jinggao slices.
7, pomegranate. Chongyang Festival to eat pomegranate is also the right time, pomegranate shape such as a tumor, the skin has a child, harvested in the fall when the fruit is ripe to eat, its taste is roughly sour, sweet two kinds. Pomegranate is rich in vitamins, including vitamin C and vitamin B content is high, protein, fat and calcium content is not low, of which the vitamin content is many times higher than apples.
8, mochi rake. Eat mochi rake, is another food custom of the Chung Yeung Festival in southwest China. Mochi rake is divided into soft sweet, hard salty two kinds. The practice is to wash the glutinous rice into the pot of boiling water, a boil that is fishing, steamed in a cage, and then put the mortar pounded, kneaded into a ball can be.
9, persimmon. Eat persimmon custom, there is a folk legend in China. According to "Qiyuan Qiqi" in the introduction: one year, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang micro-suits out of the city on a private visit, this day is the Chung Yeung Festival. He has not eaten for a day, feeling hungry and thirsty, when traveling to the village of leftover firewood, only to see the family wall down tree withered, are burned for the fire, Zhu Yuanzhang secretly lamented, looked around, only the northeast corner of the tree persimmons are ripe, and then picking food, about 10 food will be satiated, but also despondent and long time to go.