Double Ninth Cake

During the Double Ninth Festival, people respect the elderly and climb high to avoid disasters. The word "cake" has the same pronunciation as "gao", and also has the meaning of "rising higher step by step" and "longevity ninety-nine", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.

Double Ninth Cake is also called flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, and five-color cake. There is no set method for making it and it is more random. There are "rough flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". Glue some coriander leaves as a symbol, and sandwich rough dried fruits such as green fruits, dates, and walnut kernels in the middle; the fine flower cake has 3 or 2 layers, and each layer is sandwiched with finer candied dried fruits, such as apple preserves, Preserved peaches, apricots, black dates, etc.; Money Flower Cake is basically the same as Fine Flower Cake, but smaller, like "money", and is mostly the food of the upper-class nobles.

Mutton Noodles

"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, corresponding to the Double Ninth Festival. To eat white noodles, "white" is the word "hundred" minus the "one" at the top, which means one hundred minus one is ninety-nine, in response to the "nine-nine" formula. The birthday of a ninety-nine-year-old man in Beijing is called "White Shou". Wealthy families can hold mutton-based banquets on that day, including fried, roasted, rinsed and even whole-lamb feasts. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm in nature and can keep out the cold.

Crab

Crab is rich in protein and is called a high-quality protein food. Crab meat is relatively delicate, and crab fat content is very low, but fat-soluble vitamins A, E and B vitamins are relatively high. Especially crab roe is rich in vitamin A, which is good for vision and skin health. This is of great benefit to people who need nutritional supplements.

As the saying goes: "In the ninth month, the umbilicus is at the tip of the tenth month, and you hold your pincers and drink in the chrysanthemum sky." There is also the custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Zheng Banqiao's poem: "On the occasion of the Double Ninth Festival, hold your pincers to cut young ginger." This is evidence of the tradition of eating crabs during the Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival falls in September. Autumn chrysanthemums are fragrant, crab paste is yellow and delicious, and the meat is fat and tender. It is a good season for eating crabs.

Pomegranate

It is the right time to eat pomegranates during the Double Ninth Festival. Pomegranates are shaped like a tumor and have seeds inside the skin. They are harvested and eaten when the fruit matures in autumn. Its taste is roughly sour or sweet. kind. Pomegranate is rich in vitamins, among which the content of vitamin C and vitamin B group is high, and the content of protein, fat and calcium is also high. The content of vitamins is many times higher than that of apples. Pomegranate juice contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, which can help digestion, resist gastric ulcers, soften blood vessels, lower blood lipids and blood sugar, and lower cholesterol. It can prevent coronary heart disease and high blood pressure, and can achieve the effects of strengthening the stomach and refreshing the mind, increasing appetite, prolonging life and prolonging life. It has a miraculous effect on people who drink too much and relieve hangovers.