Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of August in the lunar calendar. Because the festival falls on August 15, it is called August Festival and August 30. Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are carried out around the month, it is also commonly known as the moon festival. The full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion, so it is also called Reunion Festival.

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1, Osmanthus Jelly

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when osmanthus flowers are fragrant. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many people will have the custom of eating Osmanthus Jelly. Osmanthus Jelly is a very delicious food, which exudes the unique fragrance of osmanthus and is very popular.

2. Moon cakes

Moon cakes are also one of the traditional snacks of Mid-Autumn Festival, which can be said to have become the representative of Mid-Autumn Festival. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family will prepare many moon cakes for their relatives and friends. There are so many kinds of moon cakes that everyone can choose their favorite taste to eat. Mooncakes are usually round and can be shared by the whole family, which represents reunion and harmony and has a good meaning.

In many places in Guangdong, the Mid-Autumn Festival will also have the habit of eating snails. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snail meat is fat and delicious, and it is also rich in nutrients, which is very good for people's health.

4. Hairy crabs

This is a custom in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is the season of crab paste fertilizer and rice fragrance. Although the price of hairy crabs at this time is very expensive, it can't stop people from loving it.

5. osmanthus wine

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the bursts of Gui Xiang, drink a cup of sweet 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 an ornamental plant, but also has edible value. Osmanthus fragrans has been used to make wine for a long time in China. Osmanthus fragrans wine is also a very popular wine, and many girls like it very much.

There is a custom of eating taro at Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of Guangdong, which is said to be a historical story to commemorate the killing of Tartars at the end of Yuan Dynasty. After killing Tartars in Mid-Autumn Festival, they sacrificed their heads to the moon, and later they were replaced by taro. Up to now, when Cantonese peel taro, it is still called ghost peeling. An old man said that if you eat taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, you will be blessed.