Putian mid-autumn customs, how much do you know?

When it comes to Mid-Autumn Festival customs, many people think of eating mooncakes and enjoying the moon, but perhaps many people don't know that there is a very special set of Mid-Autumn Festival customs in Putian,that is, to send the autumn and to worship the autumn. The so-called send autumn, in fact, is married daughters before the Mid-Autumn Festival to send some gifts to her parents, most of these gifts are moon cakes, chestnuts, taro rice noodles, etc., and to worship the autumn is to bring gifts to relatives and friends to visit .

One, send autumn

Mazu's hometown is in Putian, so the Mid-Autumn Festival here can not only eat moon cakes so simple, but also need to send autumn. Here is also known as the overseas Chinese hometown, most of the families overseas have relatives, these relatives will be in advance with gifts back to their hometowns, to their parents and elders to greet, spend the Mid-Autumn Festival together this reunion holiday, and has been married to the daughter, it is necessary to prepare a good gift to the family in advance, in the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival to send, and most of these gifts are very famous Putian specialties, let's say XINHUA rice noodles, pig trotters, white fruit, mooncakes, chestnuts and so on. Chestnuts and so on. The pig's feet is one of the most important items in the gift, and there are also instructions, boys will use the front leg to represent, girls will use the back leg to represent, so daughters usually choose to send the back leg, send pig's feet also means that will come back to see their parents often in the future.

Second, worship autumn

Baiqiu is also known as visiting friends and relatives, usually with and Putian-related special gifts and moon cakes, to visit relatives and friends, and relatives and friends will be the same courtesy, Baiqiu will be drawn into the distance between people, increase the human touch, reflecting the feeling of the festival.

Three, food

Putian Mid-Autumn Festival also has a lot of unique food, let's say must eat taro group of rice noodles fried. This dish is very rich in ingredients, the meat, taro, dried scallops, mushrooms, shredded meat and other ingredients are all blended together, the flavor of the meat penetrated into the taro, the meat does not feel greasy, while the taro is full of flavor, eaten once let people can not forget. This is a very famous local dish, a must-have for the Mid-Autumn Festival table.