What cakes do you eat on the Double Ninth Festival?

Every festival has its own food, and the attention of Jiangnan people is reflected in these small details. This cake is produced by Zhiweiguan, a century-old shop in Hangzhou. The concept of knowing taste is known as "stop knowing its taste and dismount when smelling its fragrance". The special cakes it produces have become the special food in Hangzhou, which has inherited a hundred years of good taste.

2. Chongyang cake

The cause of eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival stems from the climbing custom of Chongyang, also called flower cake. It is a delicious food made of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour, and it is also the best gift for the elders. Because "cake" and "height" are homophonic, people eat cakes instead of climbing, which means "step by step".

3. Chestnut cake

Chongyang chestnut cake is a unique traditional festival food in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is a timely snack when climbing mountains in the traditional custom of the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. The cake is diamond-shaped, yellow in color sauce, waxy in quality, fragrant in chestnut and sweet in taste.

The custom of Double Ninth Festival

Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over the place, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "long", and nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season of harvest in a year, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching influence. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate the Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums.