What are the foods eaten at the Chongyang Festival What are the foods that must be eaten at the Chongyang Festival?

1, Chongyang cake: Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, this is the most traditional food Chongyang Festival, from the Song Dynasty to the present, because with the "high" consonant, so there is a "step by step" meaning, and the Chongyang Festival to climb the meaning is similar. Many places will do flower cake on this day.

2, crab: the autumn wind, crab feet itch, old wine mellow, osmanthus fragrance. Autumn is the fattest season for crabs, and crabs are also seasonal food in autumn, and one of the favorite seafoods in Chongyang Festival.

3, chrysanthemum wine: Chongyang Festival has the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine, because the wine happens to sound the same as the "nine", said the festival on September 9, people began to drink chrysanthemum brewed chrysanthemum wine, smell chrysanthemum, eat flower cake, is a festival a great enjoyment.

4, mutton noodles: Chung Yeung Festival to eat mutton noodles, because into the autumn, the days are getting cold, often have to eat mutton tonic, good for the body at the same time, but also slowly formed a mutton noodle eating, pasta is the favorite of the North.

5, chrysanthemum cake: actually originated in Chaoshan, in the Chongyang Festival on this day to eat chrysanthemum cake has a long history, mainly because of its fragrance and soft, melt in the mouth, the appearance of more beautiful than other pastries.