What's delicious about the Double Ninth Festival?

Traditional foods of the Double Ninth Festival include double ninth cake, Jiupin soup, Ciba, mutton, radish, chrysanthemum wine and so on.

1, Chongyang cake

Eating cakes on the Double Ninth Festival is because there is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. Because "cake" is homophonic with "high", it was later used to eat Chongyang cake instead of climbing the mountain.

2. Jiupin Soup

This is also a local traditional custom. Eating nine kinds of soup, as the name implies, is made of nine kinds of ingredients, which are fragrant, sticky and nutritious.

3.lamb cake

According to legend, in ancient times, Ciba was a kind of food symbolizing kindness, and the brown sugar Ciba was sweet, indicating the sweetness and happiness of life. Therefore, eating Ciba on the Double Ninth Festival has the meaning of family reunion, peace and happiness.

4. Mutton

The reason why mutton is eaten on the Double Ninth Festival is that "sheep" and "yang" are homophonic, so there is a custom of eating mutton on the Double Ninth Festival. In addition, nourishing is a good ingredient for pasting autumn fat. I have to say, it is really appropriate to eat mutton on the Double Ninth Festival. The ancients were so wise.

5. Little carrots

In some places, there is a custom of drinking radish soup on the Double Ninth Festival, which comes from the folk saying that "drinking radish soup is not bitter for the whole family". Although radish is an unremarkable vegetable, it is called "little ginseng".

6. Chrysanthemum wine

In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year. On September 9th, people picked chrysanthemums that had just bloomed and a little green branches and leaves, mixed them with grain and brewed them into wine, which will be drunk on September 9th next year.