Cuisine of Chung Yeung Festival: Chrysanthemum Cake, Mutton Noodle

Cuisine of Chung Yeung Festival: Chrysanthemum Cake and Mutton Noodle.

1. Eating chrysanthemum cakes on Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional custom in Chaoshan, which has a history of more than 100 years. The chrysanthemum cakes have a beautiful appearance, are sweet, fragrant, fluffy and melt in your mouth, and have the unique fragrance of chrysanthemum as well as the flavor of chestnut. Not only does chrysanthemum cake have a unique taste, but also a unique process of making it, and in general, it's a wonderful enjoyment to eat chrysanthemum cake on Chung Yeung Festival.

2, Chrysanthemum Festival to eat mutton noodles, because mutton and "Yang" resonance, meaning Chrysanthemum, at the same time, mutton noodles also have a complementary body to prevent the cold, warm in the warmth of the next, longevity and other symbols, in line with the Chrysanthemum Festival season needs, mutton braised noodles is simple to do, the materials include Mutton, scallion, soy sauce, oyster sauce and salt, etc. Mutton noodles warms the body and is suitable for Chung Yeung Festival.

Chiyang Festival festival name traceability

"Chiyang" of the name origin, named after the ancient book "I Ching" in the "yang lines for the nine", in the "I Ching", the "six" as the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, but also for the "extreme number", referring to the height of the sky for the "nine heavy", "nine" as the number of yang, but also for the "extreme number", referring to the height of the sky for the "nine heavy". "Nine" for the old Yang, is the Yang pole number, two Yang pole number heavy together, nine to one, one yuan, the beginning of the renewal, so the ancients believe that the Chung Yeung is an auspicious day to celebrate, in ancient times, there are feasts to pray for the custom of longevity.

The first nine of September, the sun and the moon are nine, is called "two nine heavy", so it is called "heavy nine", but also two Yang number together, so it is called "Chongyang", the Ming Dynasty! Zhang Dai's "Night Boat" cloud: "Nine is the number of Yang, its day and the moon and should be, so it is called Chung Yeung.