Food often eaten on the Double Ninth Festival.

1, Chongyang cake. There is a traditional diet custom of eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival. Many kinds of Chongyang cakes are made of rice flour and fruit materials, and some Chongyang cakes also contain dates and chestnuts. Because the Double Ninth Festival has the saying of climbing mountains to avoid disasters, and "cake" is homophonic with "height", which means "step by step" and "long life", so "Double Ninth Cake" is a very popular holiday food.

2. Chestnut cake. In Beijing, there are two kinds of cakes on the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made of chestnut paste as the main raw material. The cake is diamond-shaped, yellow, waxy, chestnut and sweet. According to Liang Lumeng, there was this chestnut cake in the Song Dynasty.

3. Chrysanthemum cake. Chrysanthemum cake is one of the famous cakes in Chaoshan, which has been eaten in Chaoshan for more than 100 years. Chaoshan specialty chrysanthemum cake is famous for its freshness, sweetness, fragrance, softness and no peculiar smell. Chrysanthemum cake is more Leng Xiang, calm and beautiful than ordinary cakes. This kind of cake is sweet, soft and crisp, which melts in the mouth and leaves fragrance on the teeth and cheeks.

4. Chrysanthemum wine. Chongyang also wants to drink "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, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year. It is said that drinking this wine can prolong life. The Chronicle of Jingchu said: "On September 9th, Pei Yun ate lotus ears and drank chrysanthemum wine, and lived a long life."

5. Mutton noodles. There is also the custom of eating mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival. "Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. If you want to eat white flour, "white" means "100" minus the top "1", which means that 100 minus 1 is 99, in line with the code name of "99". In addition, autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm and can resist the cold and replenish the body.

6. Eat crabs. As the saying goes, "the navel is sharp in September, and the chrysanthemum is drunk." There is also the custom of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Zheng Banqiao's poem: "On holidays, enter the Double Ninth Festival and hold tender ginger." It is evidence of the tradition of eating crabs in Chongyang. The Double Ninth Festival is in September. Autumn chrysanthemum is fragrant, crab roe is delicious, and the meat is fat and tender. This is a good season to eat crabs. During the Double Ninth Festival, hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake and Taihu Lake are top grade. They are full of vigor, fat and strong, and are famous all over the world.