Abstract: Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is known to everyone in China, but do you know any food customs besides moon cakes? In fact, 16 kinds of delicacies, such as water chestnut, chestnut, grapefruit, reunion steamed buns, and Ciba, are also festive foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let's learn about the eating customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival! Mid-Autumn Festival food gift package What food to send for Mid-Autumn Festival? 16 kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival foods

16 kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival foods

1. Mooncakes

When it comes to festive foods for Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone must immediately think of mooncakes. In fact, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival didn't prevail until the Ming Dynasty. Before that, the Mid-Autumn Festival food was still mainly melons and fruits. As for the origin of moon cakes, there is a legend among the people: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people remembered to resist the rule of the Mongols, but they were unable to deliver the news. So Liu Bowen came up with a plan. It is said that there will be winter plague this year, unless every household buys moon cakes to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival, it can be avoided. When I got home, I bit open the moon cake and found a note hidden inside, which read: "Kill the Tartars on Mid-Autumn Night and welcome the rebels!" " So many people revolted against the rulers, and this custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival stayed like this.

2. Water chestnut

Eating water chestnut in the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to make children grow smart. Most ways to eat water chestnut are to cook it with water (or salt water) and then peel it as a snack; You can also cook the shelled water chestnut with rice into salty white porridge. After eating sweet and greasy moon cakes, drink a bowl of water chestnut porridge, and the greasy stomach will be removed on the spot.

3. Chestnuts

When autumn is cool, the aroma of sugar-fried chestnuts begins to float in the streets. Chestnut, like taro and water chestnut, is also a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chestnut is sweet and cold, and has the functions of nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons. It is most suitable for autumn, and chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, which can also be tasted by diabetics in moderation, which is most suitable for the elderly and the weak. Chestnut can be eaten as snacks. Famous dishes include chestnut duck, chestnut roast chicken, chestnut stew chicken soup, etc. At the same time, it can give full play to the delicious taste of chestnut. It is essential to eat healthily in Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Pomelo

Pomelo is one of the necessities of Mid-Autumn Festival, because "Pomelo" is homophonic with "You", which also means wishing the moon to bless. Eating sweet moon cakes, and then eating sweet and sour grapefruit, both appetizing and greasy, makes the mouth feel refreshed. Grapefruit tastes sweet and sour, slightly bitter, and is rich in vitamin C and a lot of other nutrients. It is recognized by the medical community as the fruit with the most dietotherapy benefits. It has the effects of lowering blood sugar, reducing blood fat, losing weight, beautifying the skin and nourishing the face, etc. If eaten frequently, it has the auxiliary treatment effect on diseases such as diabetes and arteriosclerosis, and has the function of strengthening the body and caring the face for obese people.

5. Reunion buns

Every Mid-Autumn Festival in Xi 'an, Shaanxi, every local family makes buns and the whole family eats a bun, which is called "Reunion buns". The steamed bun has a top layer and a bottom layer, with sesame seeds in the middle. On the top of the bun, a circle is extended with a big bowl, symbolizing the Mid-Autumn Festival night. A "stone" is carved in the circle, and a "little monkey" eating flat peaches stands on it. After the steamed buns are cooked in the pot, they are cut into fangs, one for each family, and one for the family when they go out for a short time. For married girls, the bride's family sends buns to the door to show that the whole family will not forget the reunion.

6. Ciba

Eating Ciba in the Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2, years ago, and it is a traditional custom that people have spread to this day to commemorate Wu Zixu, the general of Chu. Usually, people regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a lunar festival second only to the Spring Festival, which is known as the "off-year". Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the women at home got up early and began to get busy, pouring the cleaned glutinous rice into the wooden steamer and steaming it. After the glutinous rice is steamed, the male host of the family carries the wooden steamer to the courtyard dam, pours the delicious glutinous rice into the stone mound nest, and starts to pound it with a hammer or a wooden pestle in groups of two, while the children at home happily watch the adults pull and pound the glutinous rice around the stone mound nest, expecting to eat sweet glutinous rice.

7, Shandong Maijian

Speaking of Shandong Mid-Autumn Festival cuisine, Maijian is a kind of festive food eaten in Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival. It is first spread into pancakes with white flour, then added with meat stuffing or vegetarian stuffing, and then rolled into a tube with straw for steaming, and seasoned when eating, which is very delicious. It is said that on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingdao people not only want to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, but also improve their breakfast and lunch. Generally, they steam cakes and steamed buns to improve the food for their families. Maijian is one of them.

8. Pumpkins

Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River. Rich families eat moon cakes, while poor families have the custom of eating pumpkins. How did the custom of "eating pumpkins in August and a half" come from? Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with old parents and only one daughter named Huanghua. At that time, Huang Hua's parents were ill in bed after years of famine. On August 15th, Huang Hua found two oblate wild melons in the weeds in Nanshan. She picked it back and cooked it for her parents. After eating it, the two old people greatly increased their appetite and recovered. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, and many round melons came out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins. From then on, every year on August 15th, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has a custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half.

9. Watermelon

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people in Shaanxi, whether rich or poor, must eat watermelon, and the watermelon must be cut into lotus shapes. As a good product for relieving summer heat, it is cold and rich in sugar, which can clear away heat and purge fire, and has the effects of relieving diarrhea, diuresis, treating blood dysentery and relieving alcohol poisoning. When the Mid-Autumn Festival is full moon, while enjoying the cool and enjoying the moon, eating watermelon to relieve the summer heat is cool and pleasant, which adds to the family reunion. Moreover, after eating moon cakes, eat a piece of watermelon to clear away heat and relieve boredom. Over time, eating watermelon has become the habit of Shaanxi people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, so today Shaanxi people will eat watermelon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Watermelon is cut into lotus shapes just to match the festive atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival and increase happiness and auspiciousness.

1, lotus root box

Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival also means sending a reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, and the stuffing made of meat and clam is sandwiched in the middle, and the noodles are fried until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root in the market, namely, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crisp, sweet and white. Chinese medicine believes that after being cooked, lotus root changes from cool to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.

11. Crabs

Autumn is also the season for crabs, which is a good time for many gourmets who love seafood to try early. As early as the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty, crabs became the leading role of the show. In the book "Deliberating on the Records", it was written: "Steamed 5% to 6%, people saved up to eat, laughed and uncovered their navel covers, and picked their nails and dipped them in vinegar and garlic to accompany the wine." At that time, after steamed with cattail bags, everyone sat around to eat crabs, accompanied by wine and vinegar, which was very popular. Crabs are cold, so it's best to eat them while they are hot, and dip more ginger and alcohol food to get rid of their cold.

12, snails

As for eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a record in Shunde County Records during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, it is still delicious to eat snails." Folk believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. But why do you have to be particularly keen on food during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen, and the meat is particularly fat, so it is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

13. Taro

In Taiwan Province, it is also popular to eat taro on the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a saying: "Eating rice noodles and taro has a good start". Take the homonym of impression and road to pray for ancestors to bless themselves to find a good job. Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not believing in evil spirits. The Chaozhou Official Records, which was written before the Qing Dynasty, said, "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and peeling taro to eat it is called peeling ghosts." Stripping ghosts and eating them is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.

14. Ducks

For Nanjing people, ducks are the only thing they have to eat. There is also a historical legend about eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian rulers oppressed the Han people, and the Han people decided to overthrow the Yuan people. But at that time, the rule was strict, and it was impossible to organize the struggle clearly, so we used code words. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols "Dazi", so they took the homonym "Duck". It is agreed that eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival means that everyone will take action together to overthrow the Yuan rule. Seasonally speaking, salted duck has the best color and taste around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. This is because duck is made in the blooming season of osmanthus, and duck meat will have the fragrance of osmanthus, so it is called "osmanthus duck". In the White Door Recipe, there was such a record: "In August in Jinling, salted duck was the most famous, and everyone thought there was osmanthus fragrance in the meat."

15. Sweet-scented osmanthus wine

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the Gui Xiang, drink a cup of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are poems such as "Help the horse to fight and drink cinnamon pulp" and "Drink cinnamon and pepper pulp". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus wine in China is also quite long.

16. Cake

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan, besides moon cakes, there is also a kind of vegetable cake. The vegetable cake is made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. It tastes crisp and refreshing.