What are the specialties of Mid-Autumn Festival?

1. Eat Osmanthus Jelly: Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the season when osmanthus flowers are fragrant. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family enjoys the moon and osmanthus. Besides eating moon cakes, we will also eat some delicious foods made of osmanthus, among which Osmanthus Jelly is the most common. When the ancients ate moon cakes and Osmanthus Jelly, they also drank a cup of osmanthus honey wine. Modern people mostly use red wine instead of osmanthus wine.

Second, eat taro: In Chaoshan, Guangdong, there is a saying that "the river is opposite to the mouth, and taro can be eaten", which means that during the period of August 15th, it is the harvest season of taro, and farmers' friends are used to using taro to worship their ancestors. After the worship, the local people still have the habit of eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

3. Eat osmanthus duck: In the south of the Yangtze River, people have various customs about Mid-Autumn Festival. Among them, in addition to eating moon cakes, Nanjing people will also eat a famous Jinling dish-osmanthus duck. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" went on the market when cinnamon was fragrant and became delicious on the table, fat but not greasy. It tastes delicious and is deeply loved by Nanjing people.

4. Eat crabs: Around the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15, it is a good time to eat crabs. The gap between the rich and the poor in ancient times was obvious, and it was a luxury for poor working people to eat white flour, so eating crabs in the Mid-Autumn Festival could only be a palace banquet. And now, with the improvement of social living standards, ordinary peasant families can afford crabs occasionally.