"August and fifteen months are full, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are fragrant and sweet." On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat moon cakes to show reunion. Moon cakes are a must-have gift for the festival.
So besides eating mooncakes, do you know what else you should eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
1. Eating snails. Folks believe that eating snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight.
According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrients, and the vitamin A it contains is an important substance for visual pigments.
Eating snails can improve eyesight, which makes sense.
But why must we eat it during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Some people point out that around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the snails are empty and there are no small snails in the belly. Therefore, the meat is particularly plump and it is the best time to eat snails.
Nowadays in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
2. Drinking osmanthus wine. People often eat moon cakes to appreciate the osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat various foods made from the osmanthus, with pastries and candies being the most common.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the osmanthus in the middle of the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a glass of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrating the sweetness of the family has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival.
Osmanthus wine is sweet and mellow, has a low alcohol content, is not easy to get drunk, and has a beautiful and transparent color. It can be drunk all year round and is suitable for men, women and children.
Regular drinking of osmanthus wine is very helpful for beauty and skin care.
The ancients believed that Osmanthus fragrans was the best of a hundred medicines and had the effect of prolonging life.
Therefore, in ancient times, osmanthus wine was mostly the top product used by people to worship gods and ancestors.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, it’s fascinating to think about tasting the mellow and delicious osmanthus wine with your family under a full moon!
3. Eat reunion buns During the Mid-Autumn Festival, bake a reunion bun and share it with the whole family. Those who are away from home and cannot come back should keep one portion until they can taste the taste of hometown when they return home.
The reunion bun is a large round moon cake made by farmers in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province. It is a large round cake with three to five layers made of fine wheat flour, with various flowers sculptured around each layer.
This cake looks very beautiful and symbolizes family reunion.
It is used as a gift to the moon when worshiping the moon, and is eaten after worshiping the moon.
How many people are there in the family and how many pieces are cut into pieces.
When put together, it is a big round cake (reunion); when separated, each person has one piece, which means a happy reunion and the whole family works together.
4. Eating mooncakes. Mooncakes symbolize the full moon, happy reunion, and are shared by the whole family. They are a must-eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The ancients used mooncakes as sacrifices and ate them during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty.
Before this, Mid-Autumn Festival food was still mainly based on seasonal fruits.
There is a widely circulated legend about mooncakes among the people: In the late Yuan Dynasty, the Han people wanted to resist the rule of the Mongols, but they had no way of delivering the message.
Counselor Liu Bowen came up with a clever plan.
It is said that there will be winter plague this year, so every household buys mooncakes to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival to avoid the disaster.
Everyone bought mooncakes one after another. When they returned home, people bit into the mooncakes and found a note inside calling on everyone to rise up against the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty.
The custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been passed down.