1. Eating mooncakes Eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in my country.

The wind is clear, the moon is bright, and the fragrance of cinnamon is refreshing. Every family eats moon cakes and admires the moon, celebrating the reunion with a unique flavor.

Moon cakes, as a kind of food shaped like a full moon and filled with delicious fillings, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The poet and gourmet Su Dongpo once wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them."

As a kind of food, called "moon cake", it first appeared in "Old Wulin Stories: Steamed Food" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, people in Hangzhou had a habit of "giving each other moon cakes to symbolize reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival."

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become a Mid-Autumn Festival delicacy.

2. Eat ducks. Folks of the Mulao ethnic group in Yunnan, my country, buy pancakes and kill ducks on August 15th to celebrate this traditional festival.

In order to commemorate the family of three sugar sellers who used to sell sugar in the village to mobilize the villagers to kill Fangui guys, Mulao people buy cakes and kill ducks every August 15th to educate future generations not to forget the struggle against aggression.

3. Eating taro. Eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it also means not believing in evil spirits.

"Chaozhou Fu Zhi" written by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it is called peeling ghost skin."

Peeling ghosts and eating them is like Zhong Kui's spirit of exorcising ghosts, which is respectable.

In ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers.

In northern rural areas, rice and millet are harvested only once a year in autumn.

When the autumn harvest season comes, looking at the harvest of a year of hard work, I think that the god of the land and my ancestors are secretly blessing me.

Moreover, August 15th is the birthday of the Earth God, so we should make it more lively. When worshiping the god on August 15th, one of the tributes is taro.

Boil the whole taro and put it on a plate, or put the rice noodle taro (rice noodle soup made with taro) in a big bowl and put it on the table to offer thanks to the earth god.

In ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers.

In northern rural areas, rice and millet are harvested only once a year in autumn.

When the autumn harvest season comes, looking at the harvest of a year of hard work, I think that the god of the land and my ancestors are secretly blessing me.

Moreover, August 15th is the birthday of the Earth God, so we should make it more lively. When worshiping the god on August 15th, one of the tributes is taro.

Boil the whole taro and put it on a plate, or put the rice noodle taro (rice noodle soup made with taro) in a big bowl and put it on the table to offer thanks to the earth god.

4. Eating snails. As for eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is recorded in the "Shunde County Chronicle" during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, people eat snails with taro." Folks believe that snails in 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 the visual pigment of the eyes.

Eating snails can improve eyesight, which makes sense.

But why must we be particularly keen on eating 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 abdomen, so the meat is particularly plump.

This is the best time to eat snails.

Nowadays, among the people in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

5. Eating pumpkins During the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of the Yangtze River, every household has the custom of eating old pumpkins and burning glutinous rice in August and a half.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. Their parents were old and they had only one daughter named Huanghua. She was beautiful, smart, kind and hard-working.

At that time, there were successive years of famine, and Huang Hua's parents were old and sick, and due to lack of food and clothing, they were sick in bed and dying.

On August 15th that day, Huang Hua found two oblate wild melons in the weeds of Nanshan.

She picked it and cooked it for her parents.

It is fragrant and sweet. After eating it, the two elders have greatly increased their appetite and their illness has improved.

Girl Huanghua planted the melon seeds in the ground, and the next year they took root and sprouted, and many round melons grew out. Because they were picked from Nanshan, they were called pumpkins.

From then on, on August 15th every year, every household in the south of the Yangtze River has spread the custom of eating old pumpkin and burning glutinous rice in August and a half.

6. Drink osmanthus wine. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the bright moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, and think of Wu Gang cutting osmanthus. Drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine to celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together has become a holiday enjoyment.

Osmanthus is not only for viewing, but also has edible value.

Osmanthus is not only for viewing, but also has edible value.

In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are poems such as "aiding Ji's fight and drinking cinnamon pulp" and "laying osmanthus and drinking pepper pulp".

It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus and making wine in our country is quite long ago.