Why drink osmanthus wine on Mid-Autumn Festival

This is because 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 honey wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family, get together, has become the enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus is not only ornamental, but also has food value.

Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to drinking osmanthus wine, Nanjing people must eat Jinling famous dish osmanthus duck. "Osmanthus duck" in the osmanthus fragrance when the market, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor. After the wine must eat a small sugar taro, poured with cinnamon syrup.

"Cinnamon syrup" is named after Qu Yuan's poem, "Closing the North and Drinking Cinnamon Syrup". Gui pulp, a sugar osmanthus, picked around mid-autumn, pickled with sugar and sour plums. The women of Jiangnan are so skillful that they transformed the aphorisms in their poems into delicacies on the table. In Nanjing, people enjoying the moon as a family are called "celebrating reunion", sitting and drinking together are called "full moon", and going out to the market is called "walking moon".

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Other Mid-Autumn Customs:

1, eating moon cakes?

Eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn is a traditional custom that has been passed down in China for a long time. The wind and moon, osmanthus fragrance refreshing people, families taste the moon cake, enjoy the moon, celebrate reunion, a unique flavor. Mooncake as a shape like a full moon, containing a good filling of food, in the Northern Song Dynasty has appeared.

2, eat taro?

Mid-Autumn food taro, in many places folk symbolizes the elimination of evil, and have expressed disbelief in the meaning of evil.

3, eating lotus box?

Mid-Autumn Food Lotus Roots, is also sent to the meaning of reunion, especially to eat "lotus box". People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will be more sliced lotus root, every two slices connected to the lower end of the middle sandwich meat, clams and other modifications made from the filling, outside the tow surface fried to golden, which is also known as the lotus root cake, and the moon cake has the same flavor.

4, playing mid-autumn cannon

Anhui province wuyuan mid-autumn festival, children to brick pile a hollow pagoda. The tower hangs to the tent plaque and other decorations, and set a table in front of the tower, set up all kinds of honor "tower god" apparatus. At night, inside and outside are lit with lamps and candles.

People's Daily Online - Drinking osmanthus wine at Mid-Autumn Festival? Deciphering the food culture of the Mid-Autumn Festival

China.gov.cn - Customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in various places