Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the old tradition to eat "1 wine, 2 cakes and 3 fruits", meaning reunion, the ancestors say to remember!

A year meets a good night, miles to see the bright time, another year of the Mid-Autumn Festival has come, you are out of running around tired or dusty to catch up with home? Whether you are at the end of the world, the 15th of August this symbolizes the reunion of the family day, we must remember the words of our ancestors, eat "1 wine, 2 cakes, 3 fruit". You may say that it's too old to believe in such things. I think as the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, no matter whether they are facing the soil back to the sky, or nine to five office workers, they are looking forward to is not a family reunion, family peace and health? The times have changed, changed only the houses and roads, the same is that the heart of their own strong nostalgia for their families.

I remember when I was a child, a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the village will have a cargo man picking a stretcher to sell things, mom will take the family's eggs, pig bones, old shoe soles in exchange for a few moon cakes. The mooncakes would not be given to us immediately, they would be locked in a small cupboard and waited until after dinner on the 15th of August to be taken out and distributed to everyone. First to the elders, then to the younger generation.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother would catch a few chickens and bring them to the town to sell them, and then buy some osmanthus wine and osmanthus cakes, and then go home and pick off the grapes, jujubes, and pomegranates to put them in the cupboard together (picking them early in the morning for fear that they would be bad, and not many of them were planted). On the morning of August 15, my mother would set these things up along with chickens, ducks, fish and meat to offer to our ancestors, and wait for the old ancestors to finish eating before it was our turn to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. For decades, we ate osmanthus wine, mooncakes, osmanthus cakes, grapes, jujubes, and pomegranates on Mid-Autumn Day. Even though there are so many snacks nowadays, the Mid-Autumn Festival will not be left behind.

Cinnamon wine is made from the golden laurel that blooms in autumn and aged with rice wine, which is golden in color, fragrant, sweet and sour. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, move a small table in the courtyard, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, eat some osmanthus cakes, grapes, etc., and then raise a glass **** drink with loved ones, the family is warm and sweet. Isn't this the life we are looking forward to in Tao Yuanming's "The Story of Peach Blossom Garden"?

The osmanthus cake has the symbolism of "noble cake", hoping that the family can eat it to get higher and higher, and the days are getting better and better. Cinnamon cake in our country has more than 300 years of history, with glutinous rice flour, sugar and honey osmanthus flowers as raw materials made of pastry. It is uniform in thickness, yellow and white in color, without spots and impurities. It is moist, fluffy, delicate, sweet and delicious, with a strong fragrance of osmanthus.

On the night of the reunion, let go of all the troubles and sorrows, and eat osmanthus cake, drink osmanthus wine with your family, chatting about parents, the day is simple and seems to be full.

As we all know, mooncake is a traditional festival food that every family must have for the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is an ancient offering used to worship the moon god, and now it symbolizes the great reunion. Nowadays people still like to use it to worship, gift friends and relatives, the status is irreplaceable.

In our hometown there is also a tradition is to eat the moon cake can not be divided, just like pears do not split. When you buy mooncakes, you usually buy smaller ones, not bigger ones.

Grapes are abundantly available at the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sweet and sour ones are favored by people. It can be eaten directly, can be made into wine to drink, can be made into jelly to eat and so on. Eating grapes at the Mid-Autumn Festival has many meanings, for example, it has the meaning of prosperity. Older generations believe that it is good to have a lot of grandchildren, and a bunch of grapes has many small grapes, which is good for many children. In addition, it also has the meaning of more good, fruitful, hoping for prosperity and good things.

Autumn is the fruitful season, pomegranate also quietly into the people's fruit plate. It is bright color, sweet and sour juicy, can be eaten directly, can be used to beat into juice, can be made into pomegranate wine and so on. In China's traditional culture pomegranate is auspicious, auspicious meaning, it will give it to the wedding couples, meaning more children and more happiness. In addition, pomegranates are brightly colored and have the meaning of red-hot. People want their family life and career to be red-hot to the next level, so if someone gives you a pomegranate on Mid-Autumn Festival, remember to say thank you.

In the season of fall wind, jujube is ripe, one by one hanging on the tree is very lovely. Mid-Autumn Festival to eat jujube one because the jujube in this season ripe, high nutritional value, and another reason is the jujube harmonic "early", there is the meaning of early birth. The ripe jujube itself is red in color, which has the meaning of red-hot. The day is red, love is red, this is the elders are happy to see, but also their blessings and expectations of the younger generation.