What is the significance of eating traditional food on the Double Ninth Festival?

Traditional foods such as Chongyang cake, chrysanthemum wine, Ciba, crab and mutton noodles are eaten on the Double Ninth Festival.

1, Chongyang cake

There is a traditional diet custom of eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival. Many kinds of Chongyang cakes are made of rice flour and fruit materials, and some Chongyang cakes also contain dates and chestnuts. Because people have the custom of climbing mountains to avoid disasters on the Double Ninth Festival, and "cake" is homophonic with "height", which means "step by step" and "long life", so it is a very popular food on the Double Ninth Festival.

2. Chrysanthemum wine

Jiujiu is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and also homophonic with "wine", so it is deduced that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. Miscellanies of Xijing records that during the reign of Emperor Gaozu, the palace "wore dogwood, ate lotus bait and drank chrysanthemum wine on September 9 to make people live longer".

3.lamb cake

Raking is another food custom in the Double Ninth Festival in southwest China. Rakes are divided into soft and sweet, hard and salty. The main raw material of rake is glutinous rice.

4. Crab

The Double Ninth Festival is in September. Autumn chrysanthemum is fragrant, crab paste is yellow and fresh, and the meat is fresh and tender. This is a good season to eat crabs. Nowadays, the steamed hairy crabs in Yangcheng Lake are famous at home and abroad, and are listed as seasonal delicacies in September in major restaurants in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, enjoying a high reputation. It has a certain nourishing effect on the human body.

5. Mutton noodles

"Sheep" and "Yang" are homophonic, which should be the code name of Chongyang. On that day, you can hold a banquet with mutton as the mainstay, such as exploding, roasting, rinsing and even whole lamb mats. Autumn is the fattest season for sheep, and mutton is warm and can keep out the cold. Mutton soup should be cooked as white as milk, and the meat should be cooked thoroughly, which is more conducive to the digestion of the elderly. The ancients who paid attention to health paid attention to autumn tonic, and mutton was the best tonic, so Chongyang wanted to eat sheep.