Nine Must-Eat Foods for Mid-Autumn Festival

The nine foods that must be eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival are mooncakes, pomelo, chestnuts, lozenges, reunion buns, mochi, Shandong wheat arrows, pumpkins and watermelons.

One, mooncake

It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes at Mid-Autumn Festival was not prevalent until the Ming Dynasty, and it is still a convention. The mooncake is round and round, and is shared by the whole family, symbolizing unity and harmony, and is a must-have for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Second, pomelo

Pomelo is also one of the must-haves of the Mid-Autumn Festival, "pomelo" because of the same "blessing", hoping that the moon blessing meaning.

Three, chestnuts

Chestnuts, also a must-eat Mid-Autumn snacks, the most suitable for fall consumption.

Four, the rhombus

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat rhombus, young rhombus can be used as a fruit raw food.

Fifth, reunion bun

Reunion bun is a traditional food that must be eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, where the whole family **** eat a bun. Bun has a top, bottom two layers, the middle with sesame seeds, bun on the top layer topped with a circle, symbolizing the Mid-Autumn Festival night, round in the carving of the "stone" a piece of the upper station to eat peaches of the "little monkey". After the bun is cooked in the pot, cut into sharp teeth, the whole family, each person a tooth; family members go out for a short period of time, then leave a tooth.

Six, patty cake

Mid-Autumn eating patty cake is said to have originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, in honor of the great general of Chu Wu Zixu and the traditional customs handed down to the present day. The practice is: after the glutinous rice is steamed and poured into the pestle and mortar, a group of two people pound the glutinous rice with a poi whacker or a wooden pestle and mortar, and then finally make it into various shapes with a mold, or directly into a ball or cake.

Seven, Shandong wheat arrow

Mai arrow is Shandong Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival eat a festival food. Mai arrow is a pancake with white flour, plus meat or vegetarian fillings, and then rolled into a tube with broomcorn millet steamed, eaten with seasoning, delicious flavor.

Eight, pumpkin

"August half eat pumpkin" is the poor people in the south of the custom, in the Mid-Autumn Festival day, the south of the Yangtze River families will eat old pumpkin burned glutinous rice. Legend has it that a long time ago, at the foot of Nanshan Mountain, there is a filial daughter Huanghua, because of the poor family, parents bedridden, August 15, Huanghua in the Nanshan Mountain bushes, found two flat round wild gourd, her parents ate after the illness is cured. Yellow flowers will be planted in the ground, the next year, many round melon to grow, because it is from the South Mountain, called pumpkin.

Nine, watermelon

Shanxi people, rich or poor, the Mid-Autumn Festival must eat watermelon, watermelon, but also cut into a lotus shape, to increase the festivities and good luck. Eat mooncakes after eating a piece of watermelon, skills to clear heat and relieve fatigue.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Mid-Autumn Festival