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What do you want to eat on what festival?

1, Spring Festival: Eat rice cakes. Rice cakes are seasonal food for the Lunar New Year. They are red, yellow and white, symbolizing gold and silver. A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, which is sweet and sticky in the south, symbolizing a sweet and better life in the new year.

2. Lantern Festival: Eat Yuanxiao and Tangyuan. In the north, Yuanxiao is made of reeds by hand, while in the south, jiaozi is made of palms. Yuanxiao can be as big as a walnut or as small as a soybean. Cooking methods include taking soup, frying, frying, steaming and so on. With or without stuffing, it's just as delicious. Yuanxiao has become a snack ready at any time, and you can always have a bowl to satisfy your appetite. ?

3. Dragon Boat Festival: Eating zongzi is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival: Eat moon cakes. Moon cakes, also known as moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes and reunion cakes. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, use them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends. Today, eating moon cakes has become an essential custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. On this day, people eat moon cakes to show "reunion".

5. Double Ninth Festival: Eat Double Ninth Cake. According to historical records, Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, is made randomly. It was the original intention of the ancients to make cakes at dawn on September 9. The child put a cake on his head and said a word in his mouth, wishing the child all the best. Exquisite Chongyang cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, with two lambs on it, which conforms to the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some people even put red paper flags (instead of dogwood) on Chongyang cakes and light candles.

This probably means "lighting a lamp" and "eating a cake", not "climbing". At present, there is still no fixed variety of Chongyang cake, and the soft cakes eaten in Chongyang Festival all over the country are called Chongyang cakes.