Shanghainese like to accompany the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet with osmanthus honey wine. Because they think osmanthus is a symbol of prosperity and prosperity for future generations, drinking osmanthus honey wine in Mid-Autumn Festival means celebrating the sweetness of the family and getting together. According to historical records, more than 2,300 years ago, Qu Yuan, a poet in the Warring States Period, wrote beautiful sentences about osmanthus: "Drink osmanthus wine and pepper paste" and "Pei Wu rides on a boat in Guangxi". In fact, there was a tradition of brewing osmanthus wine 500 years ago, and drinking osmanthus wine in the Mid-Autumn Festival, which represents the meaning of reunion, has also become a tradition. Sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine is natural light yellow, fresh and mellow, sweet and clean, with unique and pure natural fragrance, and it is the top food with food. Moreover, drinking it in moderation for a long time has the functions of nourishing, conditioning, nourishing and preserving health.
Jinling famous dish osmanthus duck osmanthus duck fragrance floating for thousands of years.
Osmanthus duck, a famous dish in Jinling, is a must-eat dish for Nanjing people in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Also known as salted duck, it is a famous specialty in Nanjing, which has a long-standing reputation and has been fragrant for more than 2500 years. It has become a common custom in Nanjing to buy a bowl of salted duck on holidays or weekdays. Sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant in August. At this time, the sweet-scented osmanthus duck soup cooked with sweet-scented osmanthus not only has the elegant aroma of sweet-scented osmanthus, but also has mellow duck meat with moderate salinity, which can whiten skin, preserve health and moisten dryness, and promote the production of body fluid. In addition, eating sweet-scented osmanthus duck with a little sugar taro after drinking during the Mid-Autumn Festival and pouring it with osmanthus pulp is beautiful. Cinnamomum cassia pulp, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. According to legend, the name Guijiang was taken from Qu Yuan's "Songs of Chu-Shaosi Ming" and "Helping the North to Close and Consider Guijiang".
Water shield perch swam to the table.
The water shield and perch stew in Hangzhou is a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet. The water shield and perch in the Mid-Autumn Festival are delicious and fascinating. Water shield is a Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet and seasonal dish soup in August. Its roots, stems and leaves are green and fragrant, fresh and delicious, and rich in nutrition. Water shield can be picked in spring and autumn, especially in autumn. In Jin Dynasty, Hans Zhang abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown by using the "water shield and perch" of homesickness, which made water shield a symbol of homesickness. At that time, Hans Zhang was an official in Luoyang, and when he saw the autumn wind, he couldn't help thinking about his hometown's "wild vegetables, thick soup and bass", saying, "Success is the most important thing in life. How can you hold an official for thousands of miles, so that you can be famous?" So he resigned and returned home. Since then, water shield has become a symbol of homesickness. Since ancient times, the delicious water shield has haunted many wanderers. Bai Juyi, a great writer, also wrote a sentence that "there are still bass and water shield, and they will come to spring or plan to live in Jiangdong". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the water shield and perch stew were listed as tributes and presented to the court.
Smoked duck with a taste of Sichuan
In western Sichuan, smoked duck is a must-have for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is most suitable for autumn production, because the duck has grown up and is suitable for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Clean the ducks, smoke them with straw until they are brown, mix them with brine, add spices, salt, sugar, etc., and then cook them into smoked ducks with golden red color, tender meat and strong smoke smell.
In addition to smoked ducks, Sichuanese also have the habit of eating sesame cakes and honey cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Hemp cake is an authentic Sichuan dish with a long history. In addition to the characteristics of thin skin and many hearts, delicious flavor and flavor, the salt-pepper sesame cake contains pepper and salt, which makes it a pure sweet, slightly hemp and slightly salty special flavor. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang rose up against the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Desheng, a native of Hefei, was appointed as a pioneer by Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to prepare dry food, he specially made a big "money cake" called hemp cake, which was used to pay for the water army and greatly boosted his morale and defeated the Yuan Army. Zhu Yuanzhang called it "victory cake" after hearing the news.
Multiflavor Moon in South Guangdong
Nanyue, which is famous as the hometown of food, combines the wisdom of Laoguang in eating moon cakes and cakes with sweet, salty, meaty, assorted and various flavors. Not only that, taro paste and melon pulp made from pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive, banana, taro and pumpkin are also delicious after the Mid-Autumn Festival. All these are closely related to the cultural connotation, geographical climate and agricultural production of Nanyue Mid-Autumn Festival. Among them, there is a common saying that eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival and worshipping ancestors with taro, "When rivers and streams are opposite, taro is feared." The Milky Way and Chaoshan people call it a river. In A.D. 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, which was cruel to the Han people and the people were massacred. In order not to forget the suffering of Hu people's rule, later generations took taro as a homonym with "Hu people" to pay homage to their ancestors, which has been passed down from generation to generation and still exists today.