What do you eat on the Double Ninth Festival?

1, Double Ninth Cake: Double Ninth Cake is one of the main foods in the Double Ninth Festival, and this eating custom is very popular in the north and south of China. Most of the cakes in the north are made of flour, and most of the cakes in the south are made of glutinous rice flour. In the north, there are oil sugar stoves and steamed cakes, as well as flour, flowers and fruits. Steamed flour cake is to ferment flour, put it into small bowls, put all kinds of flowers and fruits at the bottom of each bowl, such as red dates, nuts, candied red silk, green silk, etc., put it in a cage and steam it, then pour out the flour cake, just like there are all kinds of flowers and fruits on the flour cake, which looks like steamed bread. Double ninth festival cake with flour, soft and sweet, very delicious. Chongyang cake in the south is mainly glutinous rice flour. After adding water to knead the dough, put it in a cage in the food pool and steam it. Cooked and cooled, cut into diamonds. The cake is so small that you can eat it in one bite. Regardless of the north or the south, the cakes on Chongyang must be cut with colored paper and colorful flags.

2. Double Ninth Festival steamed buns: steamed white flour into a round-tower-shaped mold, and flowers such as Zhu Ying and Artemisia argyi are inserted into the mold. On this day, every family will go hiking. This steamed double ninth festival with white flour is both hungry and easy to carry. Chongyang mold is mostly eaten in the Northwest Double Ninth Festival.

3. Ciba Chongyang Cake: Ciba is mostly eaten in the Southwest Double Ninth Festival. On this day, every household uses glutinous rice to make rice cakes, and friends and relatives invite each other to eat and drink rice wine, which means "* * * to celebrate the harvest". The folk song says, "On September 9th, drink spicy wine, eat nuclear stalks and celebrate a bumper harvest." Therefore, the southwest of China is also called the Double Ninth Festival as the Ciba Festival.

4. Chrysanthemum wine: Every household competes for chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is brewed in September when chrysanthemums are in full bloom every year, but you can't drink it that year. It takes one to two years to brew chrysanthemum juice (after picking top-grade chrysanthemums, put them in the shade and soak them in the brewed soju). When eating, 1 chrysanthemum juice is dissolved in every 5 kg of liquor, which is chrysanthemum wine. This wine is pure in texture, golden in color, sweet and fragrant, with chrysanthemum fragrance and a long aftertaste. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine, as a kind of medicinal liquor, was a kind of medicinal liquor for removing injuries and strengthening the body. Drinking on the Double Ninth Festival in autumn and winter is really good for the human body.

5. Chrysanthemum soup: There is also the custom of drinking chrysanthemum soup on the Double Ninth Festival, which means treating diseases. Clean the fresh chrysanthemums, put them in a pottery or porcelain cooker (no iron), boil them with strong fire first, and then simmer them slowly. Adding a little rock sugar or honey when drinking is beneficial to the human body. On this day, most children drink chrysanthemum soup because they are not good at drinking chrysanthemum wine. In the past, many parents used chrysanthemum soup and flower residue to bathe their children, thinking that bathing with chrysanthemum water could remove skin diseases.