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Comparison table of what to eat in each festival

Comparison table of what to eat in each festival

There are many traditional festivals in China. Different festivals will hold some festivals according to the situation, and of course, they will also prepare various traditional foods, and the food eaten in different festivals is different. Let's share a comparison table of what to eat in each festival.

What to eat for various festivals 1 1 Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival is our traditional festival, and we want to eat moon cakes on this festival. There are many kinds of moon cakes, such as Cantonese moon cakes and iced moon cakes. Moon cakes, persimmons, sweet-scented osmanthus and taro are indispensable for this festival. There is also the custom of eating crabs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

2. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. Eat zongzi on this day. There are all kinds of zongzi, such as meat zongzi and bean paste zongzi. Eating zongzi is a major feature, and there is also the custom of eating garlic. It is also worth mentioning that Artemisia argyi, Acorus calamus and garlic are also called "Three Friends of Dragon Boat Festival".

Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is a traditional festival in China. On this day, we will eat glutinous rice balls. There are many kinds of fruits in jiaozi now. The food for the Lantern Festival also includes: glutinous rice balls, jiaozi, dough and lettuce.

4. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China, and jiaozi is eaten on this day. During the Spring Festival, we mainly eat jiaozi, rice cakes, spring rolls, peanuts, chickens, ducks and fish.

5. Double Ninth Festival: Drink osmanthus wine, eat double ninth cake and taste chrysanthemum tea. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Because the ancient Book of Changes defined "six" as the yin number and "nine" as the yang number, on September 9, the sun and the moon combined with yang, and 29 was the most important, so it was called Chongyang, also known as Chongyang. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, and the activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival were colorful and romantic, generally including traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating heavy food and so on.

Comparison table of what to eat at festivals in Tomb-Sweeping Day 2 1

Tomb-Sweeping Day is designated as April 5th of the Gregorian calendar every year. That is, the fifth day of the third lunar month. It is also called outing festival and ancestor worship festival. Many people will go back to their hometown to worship their ancestors, and they will also meet three or five friends or go hiking in the wild with their families, because the climate in Tomb-Sweeping Day is very good, which is very suitable for outdoor outings.

So when we are in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we will also prepare all kinds of food. Youth League is a kind of food that you will eat when you are in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Qingtuan is a kind of jiaozi made of Artemisia argyi leaves and glutinous rice flour, which is a salty vegetable.

Meat stuffing, shepherd's purse meat stuffing, sweet mouth stuffing, bean paste stuffing, sesame stuffing and so on. This is a special food in Tomb-Sweeping Day, so many people will eat Youth League in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

2. Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of May every year to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Due to the different customs and habits in different areas of the Dragon Boat Festival, the news will be different. Some are triangular, some are pentagonal, some are big and some are small, but they are all delicious.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is a very important festival in China. On this day, some folk activities will be held, such as the Lantern Festival solve riddles on the lanterns, and at the same time, every household will make Yuanxiao, also called Tangyuan. It will be wrapped in a very delicious filling. Both southerners and northerners love to eat glutinous rice balls. It is said that eating glutinous rice balls on the Lantern Festival will lead to a happy reunion. Therefore, until now, it has continued the saying of the older generation that we must eat glutinous rice balls during the Lantern Festival.

Here, I will share with you the traditional food of each festival. Through today's introduction, you should know what traditional food you should eat in every traditional festival. During the festival, we will not only eat these delicious foods, but also prepare all kinds of delicious foods for our families to taste, feel the festive atmosphere and taste the delicious food belonging to our hometown.

What to eat on different festivals? 3. Dietary customs of Dragon Boat Festival.

1, eat zongzi

Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating zongzi. Now there are many kinds of zongzi with different tastes, including fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, candied jujube zongzi, original zongzi and so on. At this time, control the intake of zongzi according to the actual situation, and don't hurt your health because you are greedy for delicious food. At the same time, remember to heat zongzi before eating, which is safe and hygienic, and also reduces the digestive burden.

Step 2 eat eggs

You must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked, and if possible, cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, eat eggs dipped in salt. It is said that eating boiled eggs in zongzi pot at the end of May will not cause sores in summer; At noon, put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer.

3. Picking tea and making herbal tea

In some areas in the north, people like to pick tender leaves and steam wild vegetable leaves to make tea during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, people go to the suburbs of Shan Ye to collect herbs and cook herbal tea. This is also good for health.

Step 4 eat oil cakes

In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Oil cakes should be made of scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, roses, walnuts and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.

Step 5 drink five glasses of wine

It is a folk custom to pick five drinks and brew five drinks on the fifth day of May. Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus skin, which smells bitter. Acanthopanax senticosus skin has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five glasses of wine can ward off evil spirits. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, enuresis, female low back pain and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

6, sugar jujube glutinous rice

On the Dragon Boat Festival, Naxi people want to eat glutinous rice with sugar dates. Glutinous rice can warm spleen and lungs and tonify deficiency and cold. And glutinous rice will contain glutinous rice, glutinous rice contains a lot of vitamins, a lot of phosphorus, calcium, iron, protein and fat, which will increase the amount of blood in human blood. Therefore, it is necessary to pay special attention to the fact that diabetics should not eat.

7. Eat minced meat noodles

Shaanxi people must eat whistle noodles during the Dragon Boat Festival. Noodles with minced meat are Shaanxi snacks with dozens of varieties, among which Qishan noodles with minced meat are the most famous. The characteristics of minced meat noodles are that the noodles are slender, uniform in thickness, fresh and fragrant in minced meat, and the noodle soup is shiny and ruddy. Qishan noodles with minced meat have a strong local flavor. It is thin, tough, light, soft, sour, spicy and fragrant, and it tastes flexible and smooth.

8, eat dough twists

Crispy twist is also a must-have food for the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival itself is to commemorate our great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, we can't say something unlucky, so we eat sesame candy (twist) to stick our mouths together and wish our life sweet and beautiful.

9. Eat "five reds" and "Huang Wu"

The traditional Dragon Boat Festival cuisine in Nanjing is "Huang Wu", namely eel, yellow croaker, duck egg yolk, cucumber and realgar wine. With the historical changes and social development, the content of "Huang Wu" has gradually evolved into the present "five reds", namely "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs, lobster and realgar wine". It is said that eating "Five Red" and "Huang Wu" on the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and escape the heat all summer.

10, drink calamus wine

Drinking calamus wine is a traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Zeng, a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem that "Acorus calamus overflows at the beginning of May every year". Acorus calamus wine is a kind of medicinal liquor made from Acorus calamus and white wine or yellow wine. Drinking calamus wine on Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and remove poison. Long-term drinking can dispel diseases and strengthen the body.