What's delicious on the Double Ninth Festival?

Respect the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival and climb high to avoid disasters. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and they also mean "step by step" and "live forever", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.

Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, can be made at will, including "coarse flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake".

2. Crab

In some parts of our country, there is a custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs in the north became fat. It has two meanings to say that Chongyang crab is the most beautiful. First, before and after the Double Ninth Festival, the crab meat is delicious and the crab yellow is full.

Second, the Double Ninth Festival is a festival of filial piety, and it is getting cold. Prepare a set of warm clothes for elderly parents, send a few delicious Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and make a cup of warm ginger tea to keep the elderly warm in autumn and winter.

3. Chestnut cake

There are two kinds of snacks in Beijing, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main raw material.

4. Chrysanthemum wine

Jiujiu is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and also homophonic with "wine", so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. In ancient times, people regarded chrysanthemum wine as the "auspicious wine" that must be drunk in Chongyang, in order to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year.

5. Mutton noodles

"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, and you should eat white flour when eating. The word "white" is "hundred". If you remove the word "one" from the top of your head, one hundred MINUS one is ninety-nine, which is the allusion to "99".