What else do you eat for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

In daily life, Mid-Autumn Festival is a very grand festival. What do you eat besides moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival? Come and see my sharing!

What else do you eat for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Eat pumpkin

Eating old pumpkins in the Mid-Autumn Festival is very popular in the south of the Yangtze River, not only because the Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the pumpkin harvest, but also because there is a story about "eating pumpkins in August and a half". Legend has it that there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with elderly parents and only one daughter named Huanghua. At that time, Huang Hua's parents were ill in bed after years of famine. On August 15, Huang Hua found two pumpkins among weeds in Nanshan. She picked it up and cooked it for her parents. After eating it, the two old people greatly increased their appetite and recovered their health. Therefore, eating pumpkins on August 15th also means healthy growth and longevity.

Eat water chestnut

Mid-Autumn Festival is a very traditional festival, and there are many dietary customs, among which eating water chestnut is a very common dietary custom. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets are full of people selling and buying water chestnuts. Water chestnut grows in July, but it is the most full and mature time during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Water chestnut is sweet and crisp, and can be eaten raw or cooked. And eating water chestnut in Mid-Autumn Festival means "smart", so many adults will buy water chestnut for their children in Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eat taro

Many places in Mid-Autumn Festival have the custom of eating taro, but different places have different meanings. "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it is called peeling ghost skin", which means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, which means not believing in evil spirits. In ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival was an important festival for farmers. On August 15, farmers used to worship their ancestors with taro. Now this ceremony of thanking God no longer exists, but the custom of eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival still exists.

Drink osmanthus wine

People often eat moon cakes, enjoy osmanthus flowers and eat all kinds of foods made of osmanthus flowers, among which cakes and sweets are the most common. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at osmanthus, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a glass of osmanthus wine in the middle of the month to celebrate the sweetness of the family has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival. In modern times, people mostly use red wine instead.

Eating 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. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root on the market, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture and tender, crisp, sweet and white meat. Chinese medicine believes that lotus root changes from cool to warm after cooking, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.

Eat snails

Regarding eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is recorded in the "Shunde County Records" during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, eating snails is still fragrant." People believe that eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight. But why must the Mid-Autumn Festival be particularly keen on food? Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when snails are empty, there are no snails in the abdomen, and the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eat osmanthus duck

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk customs in Jiangnan are also varied. Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, so they 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. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp on it. Beauty speaks for itself. "Guijiang" was named after Qu Yuan's Songs of the South, Little Commandments and Drinking Guijiang to Help the North Close its doors. 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".

Eat crab

Hairy crabs are an essential dish in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. One for each person, served with ginger vinegar, is the best way to kill time. However, hairy crabs are cool. After eating, warm your stomach with yellow wine and drink a cup of ginger tea, which is good for your health.

Eat sesame cake

Sichuanese not only eat moon cakes, but also shoot and kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, candied cakes and so on. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate. There are also children who burn incense on grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "dancing meteor ball" Jiading County's Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Guanyin Club" for offering sacrifices to land gods and performing zaju, vocal music and cultural relics.

How did the Mid-Autumn Festival come about?

Sacrificial activities

The first argument is that the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors. The Book of Rites records: "The son of heaven is sunny in spring and autumn is in the evening. The Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the evening is in the evening. " This paper describes the ritual system of the spring and autumn festivals of the ancient emperors in China. In the Zhou Dynasty, emperors offered sacrifices to the moon at the autumnal equinox, but with the passage of time, the day of offering sacrifices to the moon moved from the autumnal equinox to the nearest full moon day-the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was the original origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

agricultural production

The second argument is that the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Because autumn is the harvest season, August in the lunar calendar is a month in autumn, and August 15 in the lunar calendar is just the moment when rice matures. In order to celebrate the harvest and express joy, farmers worship the land god on this day, and take the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival of worship.

Legends and stories about Mid-Autumn Festival

Legend 1: the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon

In ancient times, ten suns appeared in the sky at the same time A hero named Hou Yi opened his bow, shot down nine suns in one breath and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people. Soon, Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. People are envious of this beautiful and loving couple.

One day, Hou Yi asked the Queen Mother for a pack of elixirs. It is said that taking this medicine can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. Hou Yi gave the elixir to Chang 'e for collection, only to be discovered by Pang Meng. One day, Hou Yi went out, and Pang Meng took this opportunity to force Chang 'e to hand over the elixir of life. Chang 'e had no choice but to swallow the medicine. She immediately floated out of the door and flew to the Moon Palace. After Hou Yi knew it, he was in great pain and had to sacrifice to his wife at the Moon Palace on a full moon night. When people knew this, they prayed for the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's peace on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Legend 2: Walking in the Moon Palace

According to legend, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty enjoyed the moon with Taoist Shen and Hongdu in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Tang Xuanzong suddenly had the idea of roaming the moon palace. So Shen Zhao did, and the three of them began to go to Qingyun and roam the Moon Palace. However, the palace is heavily guarded and cannot enter, so it can only overlook the imperial city of Chang 'an. At this moment, I suddenly heard the voice of a fairy. Tang Xuanzong was always familiar with melody, so he remembered it. In the future, Xuanzong recalled Xian 'e's music and songs in the Moon Palace, composed and choreographed his own music, and created the famous "Colorful Feather" in history to commemorate his wandering in the Moon Palace. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail among the people.

Legend 3: Moon Cake Uprising

Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to be related to the moon cake uprising in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the broad masses of the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising, but the officers and men of the imperial court searched very closely and the news transmission was very difficult. Liu Bowen, a military strategist, came up with a plan and ordered his men to hide a note with the words "Uprising on the 15th of August" in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in various places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the 15th of August. Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he quickly sent a message that all the soldiers should have fun with the people in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and give the "moon cakes" secretly sent at the time of the war as seasonal cakes to the ministers.

How many red envelopes is appropriate for Mid-Autumn Festival?

A red envelope, of course, is not a piece of red paper, or just ten dollars. Instead, try to use the red profit seal, or the profit seal promoted step by step, and koi fish will transship it, and everything will go well, and then invest money.

Moreover, this money is neither too much nor too little. Generally, Geely figures such as 20,88, 100 are very good.

A red envelope that symbolizes auspiciousness, and numbers like to pair.

And there is another pressure, which is extra. If you visit a patient or attend the death of an elder, give the client a condolence red envelope or silk gold, which often ends with "1", such as 10 1, 20 1 or1kloc-0/.

Therefore, generally speaking, we all hope that the category of red envelopes will not end with the word 1, unless you need to use some "one" in Feng Shui mathematics.