What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival? Remember to eat these 10 traditional foods that mean good things

It's time for the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a saying that "the 15th day of the 8th month is full, and the Mid-Autumn Mooncake is sweet". Eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional custom that has been passed down for thousands of years. In fact, in addition to mooncakes, all parts of the country have their own Mid-Autumn Festival customs, and some traditional food with good meaning is indispensable. Let's take a look at the traditional foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

1. Grapefruit

Many regions have the custom of eating grapefruit on the Mid-Autumn Festival because it means "protect your son". The Chinese love all things beautiful, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is a great time for family reunions. Pomelo also means "wandering". Eating pomelo means that the wandering son returns home for a reunion, and also hopes that future generations will be safe and healthy.

2. Snails

In Guangzhou, it is also customary to eat snails on the Mid-Autumn Festival. The word "snail" harmonizes with the Cantonese word "snail" 丨". Snail, that is, "to eat from the field", as the saying goes, "if you do not eat, you need to snail". Eating snails on the night of Mid-Autumn means a good harvest.

3. Pomegranate

Pomegranates are ripe and available around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because of its bright color, full and many children, the entrance is like crystal jade paste, often regarded as auspicious by the people of China, meaning many children, many blessings, family prosperity, continuous. It is one of the essential table tributes for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Osmanthus Wine and Osmanthus Cake

According to the record of the Emperor's Capital Years and Years of Records written by Pan Rongbi of the Qing Dynasty, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in the month of August, the "Poetry" drinks "Osmanthus East Wine". The osmanthus flower is a symbol of wealth, good fortune and prosperity, and drinking osmanthus wine on Mid-Autumn Day means sweetness for the family, wealth and good fortune, and prosperity for the children and grandchildren. Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of reunion, so drinking osmanthus wine on Mid-Autumn Festival is more delicious.

5. Shantou

Eating taro on the Mid-Autumn Festival means good things, and taro is a common ritual tribute in the north. Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival in China. Northern people eat taro at Mid-Autumn Festival to thank the land god and ancestors for their blessings, while southern people eat taro at Mid-Autumn Festival to commemorate the historical story of the Han Chinese killing Tatars at the end of Yuan Dynasty.

6. Water chestnut

The water chestnut grows in July, but its best season is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is when the water chestnut is at its fullest and ripest, and it is crunchy and sweet in the mouth. In addition, "ling" and "ling" are the same sound, meaning "smart and clever". Giving children Lingjiao is a way for adults to bless them with wisdom.

7. Persimmons

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the season for ripening persimmons. Persimmons have hard and soft, hard and crisp, sweet and soft and juicy, sweeter. Persimmons are rich and round in shape, and because "persimmon" and "things" sound, meaning "all things are good".

8. Lotus box

Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and it's time for fresh lotus root to hit the market. Unlike the lotus flower, which is straight in the center and straight on the outside, the lotus root has both disconnected and connected, with thousands of knots, just like a young girl's lovesickness. In addition, "lotus root" and "even" of the harmonics, but also become the Mid-Autumn Festival girls pray for love blossom, worship Chang'e must offerings.

Eating lotus root at Mid-Autumn Festival is also a way of reunion, especially eating lotus root box. People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang often slice lotus root and connect the lower ends of each two slices, sandwiching meat, clams and other concocted fillings in the center, and deep-frying the noodles until they are golden brown. This is also called lotus root cake, and it has the same effect as moon cake.

9. Steamboat

Bazan is a symbolic and sacred food. In August, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bazan, eating Bazan and enjoying the moon show that all families are united, happy and lucky. The patties stick together to symbolize the unity and harmony of the whole family; the sweetness of the popa symbolizes the sweetness and happiness of life; and even if it is early in the morning, the earlier you get up, the bigger the harvest will be in the coming year. The size of the Pupa is round, symbolizing the "fate" of people, happiness, good luck and reunion; of course, eating round BaZan naturally symbolizes that the whole family is good, reunited and safe.

10. Crab

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