Why do you drink osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival?

This is because on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the bright moon, smell osmanthus fragrance, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus, drinking a glass of osmanthus wine, celebrating the sweetness of the family, and getting together has become a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten.

Besides drinking osmanthus wine in Mid-Autumn Festival, Nanjing people must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be listed in Gui Xiang. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. Be sure to eat a small sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp after drinking it.

"Guijiang" was named after Qu Yuan's aid to the North. Cinnamon pulp is a kind of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Jiangnan women are good at turning poems and songs into delicacies on the table. People in Nanjing enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", the group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".

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Other customs of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, eat moon cakes?

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion. As a kind of food that looks like a full moon and contains good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

2. Eat taro?

Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in many places, means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, which means not believing in evil spirits. ?

3. What is a lotus root box?

Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival is also a sign of reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, connect the lower ends of each two pieces together, put stuffing made of meat and clams in the middle, and fry the noodles until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes.

4, playing Mid-Autumn Festival cannon

Children build a hollow pagoda with bricks during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan County, Anhui Province. Curtains, plaques and other decorations are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower, displaying various utensils to worship the "tower god". At night, lights and candles are lit inside and out.

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