What to eat on the Double Ninth Festival?

On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival is a very important traditional festival in China with a very long history. During the folk Double Ninth Festival, people will have some customs, such as enjoying chrysanthemums, climbing high and looking far, inserting dogwood, putting paper owls and having a reunion dinner. On this day, there will be some necessary food on the table. Do you know what they are?

Double ninth festival gourmet

1. Chongyang cake

Double ninth festival cake, also called flower cake, is the most traditional food in Double Ninth Festival. Since the Song Dynasty, it has been passed down to this day. Because it is homophonic with "Gao", it also means "climbing higher and higher", which is similar to the meaning of climbing higher on the Double Ninth Festival. Many places will make flower cakes on this day.

2. Crab

Autumn wind, crab feet itch, old wine is mellow, osmanthus fragrance. Autumn is the most fertile season for crabs. Crab is also a seasonal food in autumn and one of the favorite seafood in the Double Ninth Festival.

3. Chrysanthemum wine

There is a custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. Because the wine just sounds like "Nine", it is called the festival of September 9th. People began to drink chrysanthemum wine brewed with chrysanthemums, smell the fragrance of chrysanthemums and eat flower cakes, which is a great enjoyment in the festival.

4. Mutton noodles

Eating mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival is because the weather is getting colder and colder in autumn, so it is good for your health to eat mutton noodles, and it has gradually formed a way to eat mutton noodles. Pasta is the favorite of northerners.

5. Chestnut cake

It is a cake made of chestnut paste as the main material. In Beijing, there are two kinds of cakes on the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake.

6.chrysanthemum cake

In fact, it originated in Chaoshan, and eating chrysanthemum cake on the Double Ninth Festival has a long history, mainly because it is soft and glutinous, melts in the mouth and looks more beautiful than other cakes.