What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival

What to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival As the saying goes, "The moon is full on the 15th day of the 8th month, and the mooncakes are fragrant and sweet on the 15th day of the 8th month," you can see that the Mid-Autumn Festival, of course, eat mooncakes. But according to the different customs of different places, eat a variety of things.

Eating Ducks

The Mulao people in Yunnan Province of China buy cakes and kill ducks on the 15th day of the 8th month to celebrate this traditional festival. In order to commemorate the three members of the Mulao family, who mobilized the villagers to kill the Fanguilao by selling candies in the village, every Mulao family buys cakes and kills ducks on the 15th day of the 8th month every year to educate the future generations not to forget the struggle against invasion.

Eating taro

Mid-Autumn eating taro, it means to ward off evil spirits and disasters, and there is the intention to express disbelief in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong "Chaozhou Province" said: "Mid-Autumn Festival to play the moon, peeling taro food, called peeling the ghost skin". Peeling ghosts and eat, great Zhong Kui to drive away the ghosts of the air, respectable.

Eat snails

As for the mid-autumn food snails, in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng years of the "Shunde County Records" has recorded: "August hope day, still taro food snails." Folk believe that the mid-autumn snail, can be bright eyes. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrients, and the vitamin A contained in the eyes is an important substance of the optic pigment. Eating snails can improve eyesight, it makes sense. But why must be in the Mid-Autumn Festival is particularly keen to eat eat. It has been pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snail is empty, no small snails in the abdomen, therefore, the meat is particularly fat. It is the best time to eat snails. Now in Guangzhou folk, many families in the Mid-Autumn Festival, have the habit of fried snails.

Eating Pumpkin

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the custom of eating old pumpkin with burnt glutinous rice on the half of August has been passed down in every household.

Drinking osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, think of Wu Gang cutting osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family, and get together, has become the enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus flowers are not only ornamental, but also have food value. Osmanthus flowers are not only ornamental, but also have food value. Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are "aid steed bucket Ruizhi cinnamon pulp", "Dien Gui Ruizhi pepper pulp" poem. It can be seen that our country drink cinnamon winemaking years, has been quite a long time.

Eating lotus root box

Mid-Autumn Festival eating lotus root, is also sent to the meaning of reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be more sliced lotus root, every two slices connected to the lower end of the middle of the sandwich meat, clams and other modulations from the filling, outside the tow surface fried to golden brown, this is also known as the lotus root cake, and the moon cake has a different flavor. Currently there are two main varieties of lotus root on the market, namely, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Jiangsu and Zhejiang more cultivation of seven holes of lotus root, the variety of good texture, tender flesh, crisp and sweet, white and flawless. According to traditional Chinese medicine, after the lotus root is cooked, the nature of the cool to warm, beneficial to the spleen and stomach, stomach nourishing yin, blood effect.

Moon festival, moon watching, moon worship, tide watching, lantern burning, riddles, moon cake eating, osmanthus blossom viewing, osmanthus wine drinking, lantern playing, pagoda burning, these are the traditional activities.

Mongolians

Mongolians love to play the game of "Chasing the Moon". People mount their horses and run across the grassland under the light of the silvery white moon. The moon rises in the east and falls in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, not to the moon in the west, "chasing the moon" more than.

Tibet

Tibetan compatriots in some areas of the Mid-Autumn Festival custom is to "find the moon". On the night of the day, young men and women and dolls, along the river, followed by the reflection of the bright moon in the water, around the river ponds in the shadow of the moon all over the wording, and then go home to eat moon cakes reunion.

Guangxi Dong

Guangxi Dong have the custom of "moonwalking". Mid-autumn night approaching, the cottage of the lusheng singing and dancing team, stepping all the way to the neighboring cottage, and the cottagers there to meet to enjoy the moon, race song and dance, all night long happy.

Yunnan De'ang

Yunnan De'ang "Moon Stringing". De'ang young men and women in Lucy, Yunnan, every autumn moon hanging high, exceptionally bright time, the end of the mountain, from time to time came a melodious melodious gourd sheng, young men and women in the "string of the moon," confiding in their love. Some also through the "string moon" to send betel nut, send tea engagement.

Yunnan Yi

The traditional custom of the Yunnan Yi during the Mid-Autumn Festival is to "jump to the moon". In the night, the ethnic villages of men, women and children are gathered in the mountain villages in the open space, one by one, girded with a veil of girls and head wrapped with a cloth belt of young men and women, old men, old women, children are passionately singing and dancing, especially those young men and women to express their love for the song, as if the moon also listened to the feelings of emotion for it, the more charming bright and clean.

Gelao

The Gelao people slaughter a bull on Tiger Day before the festival, and save the bull's heart for the Mid-Autumn Festival to offer sacrifices to the spirits of their ancestors and to welcome new valleys, which they call the "August Festival".

Korean

The Koreans use wooden poles and pine branches to build a "Moon Watching Frame". When the moon rises in the sky, a number of selected elderly people are invited to climb up to it. After the old men look at the moon, they light the frame, beat long drums, play the dongxiao, and dance the "Nongjiale Dance" together.

The Zhuang in western Guangxi

The Zhuang in western Guangxi have a more typical activity of "sacrificing to the moon and inviting the god". Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, some of them are on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people set up a table in the open air at the end of the village, and put offerings and incense burners, and on the right side of the table, there is a tree branch about a foot high, a bamboo branch, which is symbolic of the tree, and also used as the god of the moon. It is also a ladder for the Moon God to descend to the earth and heaven, preserving the ancient mythological elements of the moon. The whole event is divided into four stages: inviting the moon god to descend to the earth, with one or two women acting as spokespersons for the moon god; the gods and men singing songs to each other; the moon god divining and telling fortunes; and the singers singing a song to send the god's mantra to send the moon god back to heaven.

Li people

The Li people call the Mid-Autumn Festival the "August Meeting" or "Tuning Festival". At that time, songs and dances are held in each town, and each village is led by a "Tone Leader" (i.e., the leader) to participate in the event, exchanging mooncakes, sweet cakes, sweet poi, flower scarves, colorful fans, and undershirts in a continuous stream of groups. At night, they gather around the fire, roast game, drink rice wine, sing songs, and unmarried young people take the opportunity to look for a future partner. These are ethnic minorities.