What are the foods for Mid-Autumn Festival?

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion. As a kind of food that looks like a full moon and contains good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous inside". As a kind of food, it is called "moon cake", which first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Steamed Food from Wulin". At that time, there was a folk saying in Hangzhou that "mooncakes were fed to each other, which meant Mid-Autumn Festival reunion". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become the Japanese and American styles of Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating Ducks All Mulao people in China and Yunnan will buy cakes to kill ducks on August 15 to celebrate this traditional festival. In order to commemorate the three sugar sellers who sold sugar in the village and mobilized villagers to kill ghosts, every August 15, monks bought cakes to kill ducks, educating future generations not to forget the anti-aggression struggle. Eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not to believe in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou County Records" said: "Playing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cutting taro and eating it is called peeling the ghost skin." Stripping ghosts and eating ghosts is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable. Regarding eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is recorded in the "Shunde County Records" during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, eating snails is still fragrant." People believe that snails can improve their eyesight in the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve your eyesight, which makes sense. But why must we be particularly keen on food during the Mid-Autumn Festival? It was pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, snails were empty and there were no snails in the abdomen, so the meat was particularly fat. This is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating pumpkins is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half is circulated in every household. Drinking osmanthus wine Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell Gui Xiang, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus, drink a glass of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are some poems, such as "supporting the horse and fighting, drinking cinnamon pulp" and "drinking cinnamon pulp". It can be seen that China has been drinking osmanthus wine for quite a long time. Eating the lotus root in the lotus root box in the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a reunion, especially eating the "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, connect the lower ends of each two pieces together, put stuffing made of meat and clams in the middle, and fry the noodles until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root on the market, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture and tender, crisp, sweet and white meat. Chinese medicine believes that lotus root changes from cool to warm after cooking, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood. Some people think that eating moon cakes as gifts has been related to the Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times. Actually, it's not. In the early Tang Dynasty, it turned out that only the first day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar was a festival, and there was no fifteenth day. According to legend, Ming Taizu later visited the Moon Palace on the night of August 15th in the Tang Dynasty, so people took August 15th as the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the middle Tang Dynasty, people began to go upstairs to enjoy the moon on the evening of August 15th, when there were no moon cakes. Speaking of moon cakes, it first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, moon cakes at that time had nothing to do with the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, moon cakes were also very different from modern moon cakes, and only appeared in the food market as steamed food. In the Ming Dynasty, moon cakes were indeed associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, there was a kind of moon cakes filled with fruits in Beijing. People made their own moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival and gave them to friends and relatives to express their reunion and congratulations. At that time, moon cakes were irregular in size and shape, with great differences and special names.