Why eat snails at Mid-Autumn Festival

Eating snails on the Mid-Autumn Festival is to take a good luck.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the oldest traditional festivals in China, and there are all kinds of traditional customs to welcome this festival, and around the Mid-Autumn Festival is just the best time to eat snails. Mid-autumn food snail, then in the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng years of "Shunde County Records" (author: anonymous) has recorded: "August hope day, still taro food snail." More said small children eat snails in mid-autumn, will be bright eyes. Fried snail before, the bottom of the snail will get off, eat, first take away the snail cover, the snail meat to eat.

Then, under the moonlight to eat snails, snail shells from head to tail are through. And the snail cover is similar to the eyes, so eating snails means "bright eyes". In addition, there is a folk saying that in Cantonese, "snail" and "攞"(拿)have the same sound, in the agricultural era, everyone relies on plowing the field for a living, snail that is, "asking for food from the field" meaning, as the saying goes, "I need to ask for food from the field. The meaning of the word "攞" is "to get some food", and eating snails on the Mid-Autumn Festival night is naturally a symbol of good fortune.

Mid-Autumn Festival Customs:

1, eating mooncakes: Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese people, and eating mooncakes is an indispensable part of Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes symbolize reunion and blessings, and are one of the indispensable symbols of traditional festivals. Eating mooncakes reflects people's expectation of family reunion and happiness on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also a way to express blessings for a better life during the festival.

2. Moonlight Viewing: Moonlight viewing is an important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in which people view the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to express their longing for a better life and their longing for their loved ones. This activity is not only a form of entertainment, but also a traditional cultural heritage and expression.

3. Appreciating osmanthus flowers: In the Mid-Autumn Festival custom, appreciating osmanthus flowers is an indispensable part. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the laurel in the moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, gather together and enjoy the beauty of the festival.