Cold dew festival eat what traditional food symbolizes

The traditional food of the cold dew festival is as follows:

1, crab. A major custom of the cold dew is to eat crabs, folk have "nine female and ten male" saying, the fall is the season of crabs, crab meat is tender, delicious flavor. As the saying goes: "cold dew hair feet, frost catching, the west wind, crab feet itch", so cold dew season may wish to eat a few fat crabs to meet their tongue taste buds.

2, chrysanthemum wine. Cold dew comes in September of the lunar calendar, also known as the month of chrysanthemums, is the month of chrysanthemums, the more frosty and cold dew heavy chrysanthemums bloom more colorful. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemum flowers plus glutinous rice, wine brewed, chrysanthemum wine at the cold dew season, but also implies a long and healthy life of good meaning.

3, persimmon. As the saying goes, "cold dew persimmons red skin", that is to say, in the cold dew time to eat persimmons is very good, cold dew season, orange-red persimmons began to go on the market, so it is the cold dew season representative of the fruit. Therefore, it is a good idea to eat persimmons every day in autumn.

4, cold dew tea. Cold dew festival temperature will be rapidly reduced, this time the temperature difference between day and night can be more than ten degrees. Cold dew tea, that is, three days before the cold dew festival and four days after the tea picked at this time a cup of hot tea, both warm and nourishing the body and mind, warm body and warm heart, and no dry fire attack people disturbed, relieve or eliminate the fatigue of the day.

5, flower cake. Cold dew is a reflection of climate change characteristics of the festival, the weather is getting cold, trees and plants withered in the imminent, so it is called "resignation of the green". Cold dew often overlap with the Chung Yeung Festival or adjacent, Chung Yeung food flower cake has also become a representative of the cold dew diet, "high" and "cake" resonance, meaning "step by step", with the cold dew came, the folk custom of eating cake. Folk have cold dew eating cake custom.