Chongyang Festival food includes: Chongyang cake, crab, chrysanthemum wine, mochi and mutton noodles.

1, Chongyang cake

Flower cake is one of the must-eat food of Chongyang Festival, which is also called Chongyang cake. Because "cake" and "high" homophonic, but also "step by step", "life high nine nine" meaning, so the The "Chrysanthemum Cake" is the best gift for the elders on the Day of Respect for the Elderly, and it is also a popular food on the Day of Respect for the Elderly.

Flower cakes are made of rice flour, fruit ingredients and other raw materials, the practice varies from place to place, some are very simple, while others are colorful, look very beautiful and chic, very sweet and fluffy, delicious.

2, crab

In some parts of China, there is a custom of eating crab on Chongyang Festival. Before and after the Chongyang Festival, crabs are the most fertile time, this season male crabs inside the meat is very tender, and meat, eat up very addictive.

But after this season, it will slowly go off the market, and then want to eat the meat of the crab will have to wait for another year, so in the day of the Chongyang Festival, may as well buy some back to eat it. The method of eating crab is very delicate, you can not eat crab without fresh ginger and vinegar.

3, chrysanthemum wine

September of the lunar calendar, also known as the month of chrysanthemums, is a chrysanthemum blooming season, when the festival, crisp autumn air, chrysanthemums in full bloom, window hedges, a slice of gold. The industrious and clever Chinese would collect the chrysanthemums before the Chrysanthemum Festival and brew chrysanthemum wine with glutinous rice and wine curds.

When the Chrysanthemum Festival arrives, the whole family enjoys the delicious chrysanthemum wine. Because the word "wine" is the same as "jiu", the traditional custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine at the Chrysanthemum Festival was established in ancient times.

4, mochi

Eating mochi is another food custom of the Chrysanthemum Festival in the southwest of China. Legend has it that in ancient times mochi was a food that symbolized good luck, for one thing: because in the process of playing mochi, the mochi was bonded into a ball, and was also seen as harmony and unity among the family.

Secondly, the patties are usually made sweet, which symbolizes the sweetness and happiness of life, and thirdly, the patties are round in shape, which means that people are "destined" to be reunited with each other, and with these symbols, we should of course eat round patties on the Chung Yeung Festival to bless the whole family with peace and harmony, and to keep the family together, and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together, and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together and to keep the family together.

5, mutton noodles

Northern people want to eat mutton noodles on the Day of the Chrysanthemum. "Sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the ceremony of the Chongyang. Noodles to eat white noodles, "white" is "hundred" word to remove the top of the "one", a hundred minus one for ninety-nine symbols, in order to respond to the "nine-nine The "Nine Nine" symbolizes the meaning of "one hundred minus one", so as to echo the "nine nine".

Additionally, the Chongyang Festival is in the fall, the fall is also the most fertile season to eat lamb, can get warm to get rid of the cold, warm in the warm down, is the most in line with the needs of the season, so the Chongyang Festival to eat mutton noodles is just right.