Cantonese people call the Mid-Autumn Festival "Moonlight Festival". Do you know the food that Cantonese people eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? I believe many people are not very clear about it. Below, I will introduce to you the food that Cantonese people eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Let’s take a look if you are interested! Foods eaten by Cantonese people during the Mid-Autumn Festival 1. Cantonese-style mooncakes Cantonese-style mooncakes are currently the largest type of mooncakes. They originated in Guangdong and surrounding areas and are now popular all over the country. Its characteristics are:

The skin is thin and the filling is large. The ratio of skin to filling is usually 2:8. The oil content of the skin filling is higher than other types. It tastes soft and smooth, and the surface is shiny.

According to taste, it is divided into two categories: salty and sweet.

According to the mooncake fillings, there are: lotus seed mooncakes, bean paste mooncakes, five-nut mooncakes, fruit mooncakes, etc.

The selection of mooncake fillings is very wide. In addition to taro, lotus seeds, almonds, termites, peach kernels, sesame and other fruit materials, they also use salted egg yolk, barbecued pork, roast goose, mushrooms, ice meat, candied winter melon, dried shrimps, bucket cakes, etc.

There are as many as twenty or thirty kinds of raw materials such as tangerine peel and lemon leaves.

2. Chicken Cantonese people have always said, "No feast without chicken". Eating a whole chicken is homophonic to "家", which means eating chicken will make a family happy and reunite the whole family.

In addition, whole chicken is also an indispensable tribute for Cantonese people to worship gods and ancestors. Fresh scallion chicken and white-cut chicken are the most popular.

Roosters and hens have slightly different eating methods. Hens are generally used for stewing soup, while roosters are suitable for quick stir-frying.

Because hens have a higher fat content, the umami substances in the meat are easily dissolved in the soup, and the stewed chicken soup tastes delicious.

On the contrary, the meat of rooster is tight and difficult to make thick soup.

People prefer the tender "boy chicken" when eating rooster. At this time, it should be fried quickly to keep it fresh and delicious.

3. Water chestnut is a common water chestnut with black shell, pointed ends, and looks like a black hawk.

Because it is regarded as having sharp edges and sharp edges, eating water chestnuts during the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children smarter.

However, water chestnuts are often rejected by children because of their unflattering image.

Water chestnut is rich in protein, unsaturated fatty acids, a variety of vitamins and trace elements. It has diuretic, breast-clearing, thirst-quenching and alcohol-relieving effects.

When young, it can be eaten as a raw fruit. It tastes sweet, flat and non-toxic, with crispy skin and delicious meat. You can also boil the peeled water chestnuts with rice to make a salty white porridge.

After eating the sweet mooncakes, drinking a bowl of water chestnut porridge will remove a lot of the greasiness in your stomach on the spot.

4. Pomelo. The round shape of grapefruit symbolizes reunion. At the same time, "You" and "You" are homophones, representing the good wishes of hoping for the protection of the moon. In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the peak season, so Pomelo naturally becomes the symbol of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Food for festivals.

Or maybe the meaning is good enough, making grapefruit an indispensable protagonist of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating grapefruit during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangdong is still a tradition.

When selecting grapefruits, you can look, smell, and tap to buy grapefruits that are wide at the top and wide at the bottom, with thin and smooth skin, light green or yellowish color, rich aroma, and elastic skin.

Guangdong Mid-Autumn Festival Customs: Trees are also erected on the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou. On the Mid-Autumn Night, Mid-Autumn Festival activities are held. Trees are also erected, which means that the lights are erected high.

With the help of their parents, children tie up rabbit lanterns, carambola lanterns or square lanterns with bamboo paper, hang them horizontally on short poles, and then erect them on high poles. When they are skilled, the colorful lights shine, adding to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

A scene.

Children often compete with each other to see who can erect taller, more lanterns and the most exquisite lights.

In addition, there are sky lanterns, namely Kongming lanterns, which are made into large-shaped lanterns with paper. Candles are burned under the lanterns, and the heat rises, causing the lanterns to fly in the air, attracting people to laugh and chase them.

In addition, there are various lanterns carried by children to enjoy under the moonlight.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Dongguan, the moon is illuminated, and young unmarried people in Dongguan also burn incense and candles under the moon and beg the elders of the moon to match them.

In the old days, some women in Dongguan believed that Yue Lao was a matchmaker. Anyone who had an adult man or woman in the family and fell in love with someone unintentionally would burn incense and candles under the moonlight at the third watch of the Mid-Autumn Festival and beg Yue Lao to match them.

It is said that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, soaking in the moonlight can make women pregnant.

In some areas, on the moonlit night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, some women who have been married for a long time and are infertile will go out of their homes and bathe in the moonlight, hoping to have a baby soon, which is called "zhao Yue".

What do Cantonese people eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Chaoshan has the most delicious food during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Various places in Chaoshan, Guangdong have the custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, mainly for women and children.

In the evening, when the bright moon rises, women will set up tables in the yard and balconies to pray in the air.

Silver candles were burning high, incense was lingering, and the table was filled with fruits and cakes as offerings.

There is also the local custom of eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a proverb in Chaoshan: "When the river and the stream meet the mouth, the taro will be eaten."

August is the taro harvest season, and farmers are accustomed to using taro to worship their ancestors.

Although this is related to farming, there is also a widely circulated legend among the people: In 1279, the Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, established the Yuan Dynasty, and brutally ruled the Han people.

Ma Fa defended Chaozhou against the Yuan Dynasty. After the city was defeated, the people were massacred.

In order not to forget the suffering of the Hu people's rule, later generations took taro, which is homophonic to "Hutou" and is shaped like a human head, to pay homage to their ancestors. This has been passed down through the generations and still exists today.

Good places to visit during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangdong 1. Shawan Ancient Town, Guangzhou Shawan Town is adjacent to the central urban area of ??Panyu, Guangzhou City. Shawan Town is an ancient Lingnan cultural town with a history of more than 800 years. It is rich in historical and cultural resources and its folk art is well-known in the South.