What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival

What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival: Dumplings, Sugar Lotus Root, Roasted Cake, Salt Water Duck, Hairy Crab, Duck Meat, Soup Dumplings, Duck Meat, Fried Snails, Lotus Root, Pattycake, Cinnamon Cake, Pomelo, Persimmon, Chestnuts, Pumpkin, and Mooncake.

Mid-Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival), also known as "Moon Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August Meeting", "Chasing the Moon Festival", "Playing with the Moon Festival", "Moon Festival", "Daughter's Festival", "Reunion Festival", is a traditional cultural festival popular among many nationalities in the country, because it coincides with the half of the three autumns, so it gets this name.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena, and evolved from the moon sacrifice on the eve of autumn in ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by the folk customs of sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, looking at lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, among others.

Local Characteristics

Lanterns in Hunan and Guangdong

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lanterns to help the moonlight, and nowadays there is still a custom in Hunan and Guangdong of burning lanterns in towers with tiles stacked on top of them. Jiangnan area has a system of lantern boat custom, modern mid-autumn festival lantern custom is more prevalent, today's Zhou Yunjin, He Xiangfei, "Idle feelings to try to say that the seasonal affairs," said the article: "Guangdong, the most prevalent lights, families in the festival ten days before the bamboo strips to tie the lanterns. Fruit, birds, animals, fish and insects, and 'celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival' and other words, on the paste color paper painted in various colors.

Mid-Autumn Lanterns burning candles with ropes tied to bamboo poles, erected on the eaves or terrace, or small lamps built into characters or all kinds of shapes, hanging high in the house, commonly known as the 'tree Mid-Autumn' or 'vertical Mid-Autumn,' the lamps hanging in the rich and noble families, high up to a few feet, the family gathered under the lamps to drink. Families gathered under the lights to drink for fun, ordinary people are erected a flagpole, two lanterns, but also to take their own fun. The city was filled with lights like a glazed world." Mid-Autumn Festival of the custom of burning lamps its scale seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival.