Dietary customs in China

1. Eating Chongyang Cake on the Double Ninth Festival

According to historical records, the muffins made by the ancients a few days before and after the Double Ninth Festival are called Chongyang Cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake. It is said that in the early years, people didn't put dates and chestnuts on the dough cakes, or steamed sticky cakes made of glutinous rice and yellow wheat, which looked like flower cakes with "gold on" and "silver on".

2. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival

There is a traditional custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival in China. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as a "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to dispel disasters and pray for blessings. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still popular, and it was still recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Notes on Zunsheng in the Ming Dynasty. It was a popular fitness drink.

3. Eating rakes on the Double Ninth Festival

Eating rakes is another food custom on the Double Ninth Festival in southwest China. Harrows are divided into soft and sweet, hard and salty. Its practice is to put the washed glutinous rice into a boiling pot, bring it to a boil, steam it in a cage, mash it in a mortar and knead it into a ball.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day eats green dumplings.

During the Qingming Festival, there is a custom of eating green dumplings in the south of the Yangtze River. Green dumplings are made by mashing a wild plant called "Pulp Wheat Straw" and squeezing out juice, then mixing this juice with dried pure glutinous rice flour, and then making dumplings.

5. Eat Qingming snails in Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival is the best time to eat snails. Because snails are the most plump and plump at this time, there is a saying that "a snail in Qingming Festival is worth a goose". There are many ways to eat snails, which can be fried with onions, ginger, soy sauce, cooking wine and sugar. You can also cook and pick out snail meat, which can be mixed, drunk, bad, and simmered.

People's Daily Online-Dietary Customs in Various Regions of Tomb-Sweeping Day

People's Daily Online-Dietary Customs in Double Ninth Festival.