What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival

"The moon is full on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and mooncakes are fragrant and sweet during the Mid-Autumn Festival." On the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, people have to eat mooncakes to show the reunion, mooncakes can be said to be the necessary gifts for the festival. So besides eating mooncakes, do you know what you should eat on Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, eat snails

Folk believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival food snails, can be bright eyes. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrients, containing vitamin A is an important substance of the optic pigment. Eating snails can improve eyesight, it makes sense. But why must eat in the Mid-Autumn Festival? It has been pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the time when the snail is empty, and there is no small snail in the abdomen, therefore, the meat is particularly fat, and it is the best time to eat snails. Today in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2, drink osmanthus wine

People often eat mooncakes to enjoy osmanthus at Mid-Autumn Festival, eating osmanthus made of a variety of foods, to cakes, candies are most common.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the laurel in the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrating the sweetness of the family has become a kind of enjoyment of the festival.

Osmanthus wine is sweet and mellow, low degree, not easy to get drunk, beautiful and transparent color, can be drunk all year round, men and women, young and old. Drinking osmanthus wine is very helpful for beauty and skin care. Ancient people believed that osmanthus is the longest of all medicines and has the effect of prolonging life. Therefore, in ancient times, osmanthus wine was often used to honor the gods and ancestors. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, under the full moon, you can savor the delicious taste of osmanthus wine with your family***, which is fascinating to think about!

3, eat reunion bun

Mid-Autumn Festival, branding a reunion bun, the whole family to share, out of the traveler can not return, but also to keep a copy, until the return home to eat the taste of home. The "reunion bun" is a homemade mooncake made by farmers in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, with three to five layers of fine wheat flour, each layer surrounded by a variety of sculpted flowers. The cake looks very beautiful and symbolizes family reunion. They are offered as a gift to the moon during moon worship and eaten in small portions afterward. The number of people in a family is cut into as many pieces as possible. When combined, it is a big round cake (reunion); when separated, each person takes one piece, symbolizing a big reunion and the cooperation of the whole family.

4, eat moon cakes

Moon cakes symbolize that the full moon, reunion, and the family to eat, is the Mid-Autumn Festival must eat food. Ancient people ate mooncakes as offerings at the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival started from Tang Dynasty. Before that, the Mid-Autumn Festival food was still mainly seasonal fruits and melons. There is a popular legend about mooncakes: at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han Chinese wanted to rebel against the Mongols, but they had no way to send a message. The strategist Liu Bo Wen then came up with a brilliant plan. He said that there would be a winter plague this year, and that every family should buy mooncakes to eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to escape. Everyone bought mooncakes, and when they returned home, people bit into the mooncakes and found hidden inside a note calling for people to rise up against the Yuan Dynasty rulers. This is how the custom of eating mooncakes in mid-autumn has been passed down.