What to eat on the first day of October

The first day of October in the lunar calendar is called "October Dynasty", also known as the "Festival of Ancestors", to send the cold clothes Festival, eat the food are noodles, red beans and rice, inverse mochi, mochi, dumplings.

1, noodles

Folk mountainous areas in October 1 to improve their lives, the rise of buckwheat noodles, oat noodles. Not only for the dead to send cold clothes for the winter, the living also have to carry out some traditional activities to symbolize the winter.

2, red beans and rice

The descendants of the first day of October as a mourning festival to the outdated, red beans and rice as a foundation. So far, Jiangsu Dafeng area there is a legend to the effect that: once upon a time there is a cowherd boy, because of the landlord resistance, was the landlord hacked to death, the blood of the rice scattered on the ground dyed red. This day is the first day of October.

3, inverse mochi

On this day, Huizhou people eat a traditional food called "inverse mochi". In Huizhou's traditional customs, "October Dynasty" is a traditional festival, which is the birthday of the ox, and is also the traditional festival of sacrificing oxen in Huizhou. The people of Huizhou believe that the ox has worked hard for mankind for a year, so they have to pay tribute to the ox.

4, mochi

"October morning, mochi bok-bok-bok." This is a Hakka saying that every year on the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, every family makes mochi.

5. Dumplings

There is a saying in Luoyang: "On October 1st, the oil is pumped." It means that on the first day of October, people cook and fry food, chop meat, wrap dumplings and prepare food for ancestors. Huantai residents are mostly "fried stuffed food" ancestor worship.