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What do you eat at festivals in China?

1, Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival, and the essential things for this festival are moon cakes, persimmons, osmanthus flowers and taro. There is also the custom of eating crabs in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

2. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. Eating zongzi is a major feature, and there is also the custom of eating garlic. Ai, Acorus calamus and garlic are called "Three Friends of Dragon Boat Festival".

3. Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. On this day, eat jiaozi. There are many kinds of fruits in jiaozi now.

4. Spring Festival

This is the most grand and distinctive traditional festival among the people in China, marking the end of the old year and the beginning of the new year. But among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. During the Spring Festival, we will eat jiaozi, rice cakes, spring rolls, peanuts, chickens, ducks and fish.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, also known as the Youth Day. According to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is a season of bright spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing (called an outing in ancient times), so the ancients had a Qingming outing. Tomb-Sweeping Day will eat eggs, snowballs, tea, green jiaozi, steamed stuffed bun with warm mushrooms, glutinous rice seeds, common seeds (gu ǒ) and mustard rice.