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Mid-Autumn Festival must eat food Mid-Autumn Festival must eat the top ten foods

1, osmanthus cake: Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when osmanthus flowers are fragrant. Many people use osmanthus flowers to make osmanthus cake during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As the old poem goes, "The osmanthus falls in the moon, and the fragrance of the sky floats outside the clouds. The clouds of the sea are lost in the post road, and the moon of the river is hidden in the village building. When I was a guest in Huainan, I stayed here because of the osmanthus tree." I don't know if you were a kid, but when you were little, you were also bent over your grandparents' laps, listening to stories of ghosts and monsters, looking at the bright moon, and eating soft and delicious osmanthus cakes?

2, snails: before and after the mid-autumn festival, is the snail empty pregnant time, no small snails in the abdomen. Therefore, the meat is particularly fat, is the best time to eat mouth snail. And snail meat is rich in nutrients, contains vitamin A and is an important substance of the eye optic pigment.

3, moon cakes: moon cakes are one of the time-honored traditional Chinese snacks, said to have begun in the Tang Dynasty, in which Cantonese, Beijing-style, Su-style, Chao-style, Dian-style moon cakes are loved by people all over China, north and south. The mooncake is round and round, and is shared by the family, symbolizing reunion and harmony, and is a must-eat on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4, duck: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongol rulers oppressed the Han Chinese, who decided to overthrow the Yuan. But at that time, the unification system is strict, can not be explicitly organize the struggle, so use the secret word. At that time, the Han people called the Mongols "da zi", take the harmonic "duck". We agreed to eat duck at Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, Mid-Autumn Festival, we take action together to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. Moreover, the duck before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival is fat and thin, with good taste, and has the effect of nourishing yin and tonifying blood.

5, pumpkin: Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion, less fish and meat, eat some pumpkin can enhance the sense of satiety, reduce fat intake. Pumpkin in the autumn ripe, rich in dietary fiber, beta-carotene, slowing down the rise in blood sugar, lower blood fat, prevent constipation effect. In addition, fall dry, eat more pumpkin, can also moisturize the skin.

6, pomegranate: mid-autumn is when the pomegranate is ripe. Because of its red like agate, white as crystal, the mouth as crystal grain jade pulp, pomegranate will become one of the table offerings, symbolizing longevity, reunion and good luck. This thing is not peeled when the playfulness is more than can be seen, touch in the hand cool round smooth, peeled and can be seen more than can be eaten, like a grain of small gems saved together, is also to take a meaning of reunion.

7, barbecue: in Taiwan Province of China, the Mid-Autumn Festival, almost every family to eat barbecue, in the Mainland now many shopping malls on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival also engaged in barbecue special sales, so many people patronize. Without realizing it, eating barbecue meat on Mid-Autumn Festival has also become an indispensable dish in every household.

8, taro: in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, taro pronunciation is similar to "luck". So eating taro on Mid-Autumn Festival is not only enjoying good fortune, but also expressing the hope that good luck will come again and again.

9, hairy crabs: Mid-Autumn is the season of "crab paste fat, rice flowers". A full moon, a pot of wine, a few old friends, a plate of hairy crabs, the taste of the gods. Back to secular life: but this year's hairy crabs must be expensive enough, might as well eat something else.

10, osmanthus wine: every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the moon in the laurel, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrating the family sweet, happy together, has become a festival of beauty. Osmanthus flowers are not only ornamental, but also have food value. Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there will be "aid steed bucket Ruizhi cinnamon pulp" "Dien Gui wine Ruizhi pepper pulp" poem. It can be seen that our country drink cinnamon winemaking years, has been quite a long time ago.