What traditional foods to eat on August 15th?

The traditional delicacies eaten on August 15th include:

1. Moon cakes

Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in my country. The wind is clear, the moon is bright, and the fragrance of cinnamon is refreshing. Every family eats moon cakes and admires the moon, celebrating the reunion with a unique flavor. Moon cakes, as a kind of food shaped like a full moon and filled with delicious fillings, appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The poet and gourmet Su Dongpo once wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them." As a kind of food, called "moon cake", it first appeared in "Old Wulin Stories: Steamed Food" in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, people in Hangzhou had a habit of "giving each other moon cakes to symbolize reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival." By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become a Mid-Autumn Festival delicacy.

2. Osmanthus Cake

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when the sweet-scented osmanthus blooms. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many families use osmanthus to make osmanthus cakes or soak it in osmanthus wine. Both osmanthus cake and osmanthus wine exude the unique fragrance of osmanthus without exception.

3. Field snails

Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the field snails are empty and there are no small snails in their abdomens. Therefore, the meat is particularly plump and it is the best time to eat snails. And snail meat is rich in nutrients.

4. Ciba

Ciba is the agglomeration of circles, and it always accompanies circles. The steamer for steaming glutinous rice, the nest for making glutinous rice cakes, the dustpan for putting glutinous rice cakes, soybeans, peanuts, sesame seeds, etc. for making stuffing are all coexisting with the circle.

In some folk places in Sichuan, osmanthus is added to glutinous rice cakes and pounded to make laurel glutinous rice cakes, which are eaten with fried soybean noodles and white sugar. The taste is quiet, elegant, sweet and refreshing, and has a unique flavor.

5. Sesame cakes

In addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sichuan people also make cakes, kill ducks, and eat sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate.

There are also children who put incense on the grapefruit and dance it along the street, which is called "Dancing Shooting Star Incense Ball". During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County, people worship the Earth God, perform dramas, vocal music and cultural relics, which is called "watching party".