Besides eating moon cakes, what food is there for Mid-Autumn Festival?

Pastry, sugar and garlic, peanuts, pumpkins, perch, drunken crab, smoked duck, osmanthus duck, etc.

Mid-Autumn Festival is an important traditional festival in China. Different geographical areas may have different ways to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the food they eat varies from place to place.

First of all, the food eaten before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival is not only moon cakes.

Beijing 1

Crabs are tall and fat in August, and Mid-Autumn Festival is the season to taste crabs. Beijing pays special attention to tasting drunken crabs.

2. Guangdong

When the fruit is ripe, grapefruit, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive and banana are another food for Mid-Autumn Festival hipsters. Agricultural taro and pumpkin are also very popular with people affected by moisture, and are used to make taro paste and melon pulp. Taro, Ciba, etc. It is also necessary for hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

3. Sichuan

Sichuanese also kill ducks and eat sesame cakes and honey cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In western Sichuan, smoked duck is a must for Mid-Autumn Festival, because the raw ducks at that time have grown up and are fat and thin. The master selects the ducklings born in that year, butchers them, removes their feathers, opens their chests, washes them, removes the wing tips and duck feet, marinates them with salt for one night, scalds them with boiling water until their skins are tight, takes them out, puts them in a smoking stove, smokes them with straw until they are brown, takes them out of the oven, marinates them in a pot, and changes the knife into a dish when eating, thus obtaining the smoked duck with golden color, tender meat and strong smoke smell.

4. Jiangsu

Nanjing people must eat osmanthus duck and Jinling famous dishes. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be listed in Gui Xiang. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a sweet-scented osmanthus duck's small sugar taro and pour it with sweet-scented osmanthus pulp. Beauty speaks for itself. Osmanthus fragrans pulp, also called Osmanthus fragrans, is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Jiangnan women are handy, turning the chanting in poetry into delicacies on the table. People in Nanjing enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", the group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".

5.zhejiang province

Stewed bass with water shield in Hangzhou became a dish at Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, not only because the water shield was delicious at this time, but also because of the historical fact that Hans Zhang abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown in Jin Dynasty with the help of homesickness. This story has not only become a beautiful talk for generations, but also made water shield a symbol of homesickness. Water shield is a family banquet for Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is also a seasonal soup in August. Water shield, also known as horseshoe and watercress, is an aquatic perennial leafy herb. The roots, stems and leaves of water shield are not only green and delicious, but also nutritious.

6. Taiwan Province

Kaohsiung county has a strong atmosphere of raising water ducks. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most tender time for water ducks. Hakkas in Meinung often slaughter water ducks and add vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a major feature of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan will also eat a kind of food called "vegetable cakes". Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. In Tainan, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of eating potatoes.

7.henan province

Mid-Autumn Festival is the harvest season in a big agricultural province. People here have the habit of eating sesame candy, sesame syrup, moistening lung and nourishing yin, and peanuts. Henan is rich in peanuts. People can fry peanuts during busy farming and eat them at any time to increase the festive atmosphere. Then there is the garlic in Zhongmou and Kaifeng, Henan Province, which is ripe and delicious and anti-cancer after pickling.

There are also some dietary legends.

1, eat pumpkin

Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated everywhere south of the Yangtze River. The rich eat moon cakes, while the poor have the custom of eating pumpkins. This comes from a beautiful legend. A long time ago, there lived a poor family at the foot of Nanshan, with elderly parents and only one daughter named Huanghua, who was beautiful, kind, intelligent and hardworking. At that time, there were years of famine, and Huanghua's parents were old and sick, sick in bed and dying. On August 15, Huanghua found two oblate wild melons among weeds in Nanshan. She picked it up and cooked it for her parents. Sweet and delicious pumpkins greatly increase parents' appetite and make them better. Miss Huanghua planted melon seeds in the ground, and the next year, they really took root and sprouted, bearing many round melons. Because it was picked from Nanshan, it was called pumpkin. Since then, the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice on August 15th and August 30th has spread in every household in the south of the Yangtze River.

Step 2 eat snails

During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, it was recorded in Shunde County Records: "Looking at the sun in August, you are still eating snails." People believe that snails can improve their eyesight in the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve your eyesight, which makes sense. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snail was empty, but there was no snail in the belly. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, which is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families still have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Step 3 eat taro

Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it also means not to believe in evil spirits. Chaozhou Official Records written before the Qing Dynasty said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival and peeling taro to eat is called peeling ghosts." Now some areas in Guangdong still call eating taro "skinning ghosts".

Step 4 drink osmanthus wine

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the sweet-scented osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the bursts of Gui Xiang, drink a glass of sweet-scented osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the whole family and get together, which has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are some poems, such as "supporting the horse and fighting, drinking cinnamon pulp" and "drinking cinnamon pulp". It can be seen that China has been drinking osmanthus for quite a long time.

Mid-Autumn Festival "Alternative" Food

1, reunion steamed stuffed bun

Every Mid-Autumn Festival in Xi, Shaanxi Province, every local household will make steamed buns, and the whole family will eat a steamed bun, which is called "Reunion Steamed Bun". Steamed bread has a top layer and a bottom layer with sesame seeds in the middle. At the top of the bun, a circle is extended from a big bowl, symbolizing the Mid-Autumn Festival night. There is a "stone" carved in the circle, on which stands a "little monkey" eating flat peaches. After the steamed bread is cooked in the pot, it is cut into fangs, one for each family, and one for each family when going out for a short time. For the married girl, the family sends steamed buns to the door, indicating that the whole family will not forget the reunion.

2. "Lotus" lotus root cake

In Dongtai, Jiangsu, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, lotus root is used to make cakes, wrapped in minced meat, covered with wheat crumbs and fried in an oil pan. It is called lotus root cake, commonly known as "lotus flower", which means harmony and reunion.

3. Pond fish

In Wuyuan, Anhui, you must eat fish in the pond during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Roasted duck and salted duck

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Nanjing, Jiangsu, we eat roast duck or salted duck.

5. "Family moon cakes"

In Kunming, Yunnan, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household has to make a "big family moon cake" and then eat it one by one.

6. Steamed buns

Tai 'an, Shandong Province has the custom of eating steamed buns in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

7. Beef

Some ethnic minorities are more solemn. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Gelao people slaughtered a bull in the village, took out the bull's heart at the Mid-Autumn Festival night and saved it for their ancestors, and then shared the beef.