Is there anything delicious on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival, family reunion. On such a happy day, it is always the time when all the snacks are full. China is rich in food culture, and every place has its own corresponding Mid-Autumn Festival cuisine. Let's see what all the places eat in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

mooncake

Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival food, everyone must immediately think of moon cakes. Moon cakes are one of the most famous traditional snacks in China. Among them, Cantonese moon cakes, Beijing moon cakes, Suzhou moon cakes, Chaozhou moon cakes and Yunnan moon cakes are deeply loved by people all over the country. Since the Tang Dynasty, all parts of China have eaten moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Although different places have different practices and tastes, there will be no shortage of moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Suzhou: water chestnut

The market is full of people who sell and buy water chestnuts. Giving water chestnuts to children is the blessing of adults who want their children to be "smart". Water chestnut grows in July, but its best season is Mid-Autumn Festival.

Yunnan: Chestnut

When the autumn is cool, the fragrance of sugar-fried chestnuts begins to float all over the streets. Chestnuts, like taro and water chestnut, are also a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Nanchang: grapefruit

Grapefruit is an indispensable fruit in Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the best season for grapefruit, so it's a pity to miss it. Secondly, grapefruit is big and round, symbolizing "reunion". Pomelo homophonic wanderer, Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion festival, and wanderers certainly go home for reunion.

Grapefruit also has the homonym of "grapefruit", which means auspiciousness. While celebrating the festival, I also won a "lottery". In Nanchang dialect, the homonym of grapefruit is "having a son", so eating grapefruit in the Mid-Autumn Festival also has the auspicious meaning of having a baby early.

Guangxi: Ciba

Ciba is a kind of token and sacred object. Ciba in the Mid-Autumn Festival in August symbolizes family reunion, happiness and good luck. For thousands of years, the broad masses of the people have forged a profound friendship with it and have a special liking for it, giving it infinite sustenance and profound meaning.

Sticking together, Bazin symbolizes the harmony and unity of the whole family; The sweetness of Ciba symbolizes the sweetness and happiness of life; Even if it is an early morning nap, the earlier you get up, the greater the harvest in the coming year; Ciba is round in size, symbolizing people's "fate", happiness, auspiciousness and reunion.

Zhejiang: Pumpkin

There is a special custom in the Mid-Autumn Festival, "eat pumpkins in August and a half". From the older generation, there is another legend about filial piety.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a beautiful girl named Huanghua at the foot of Nanshan. On August 15, she found two oblate wild fruits among the weeds on the mountain and picked them back for her parents to eat. After eating these delicious and fruity wild fruits, her parents who were ill in bed due to years of famine gradually recovered. Therefore, the melon was picked from Nanshan, and later people called it pumpkin. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, we always try various cooking methods.

Hefei: lotus root

Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Slice the lotus root, connect the lower ends of each two pieces, insert stuffing such as meat and clams, and fry the noodles until golden brown. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes.

In addition to eating moon cakes, Hefei people will also eat "selfless lotus root" in Baohe during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Legend has it that in Bao Zheng's later years, Renzong gave Bao Gong half of the heroic city. Bao Gong asked his descendants to stand on their own feet and refused the emperor's village reward. However, Renzong must give it and finally give him a moat. The emperor's failure to get a seal is a crime of resisting the decree. Bao Gong was so helpless that he had to be sealed, but he was very upset. Seeing the lotus root in the moat, after careful consideration, the lotus root was specified; Lotus root can be eaten but not sold. Bao Zheng is iron, but it's even (private). Strange to say, the lotus roots in other places are all broken, but the lotus roots in Baohe have no silk.

Since then, Hefei has left a two-part allegorical saying, "Baohe Lotus Root-No Silk (Private)". Bao Zheng's descendants followed Bao Gong's legacy and tasted Bao He's lotus root and rock sugar in the Mid-Autumn Festival to show "Bing Xin's selflessness". Lotus roots in the river are only given to neighbors and never sold for money. This virtue has been imitated by people and has become a custom.

Shanghai: crabs

As the saying goes, "the west wind tickles the crab's feet", which means that every Mid-Autumn Festival, crabs are yellow and creamy, which is the best time to taste. Crabs are rich in nutrition, especially in protein, which is several times higher than pork and fish.

In ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet custom of Han people was the most elegant in the court. For example, eating crabs was very popular in the court of the Ming Dynasty. After steaming the crabs with cattail, everyone sat around and tasted them, served with wine and vinegar. Drink Su Ye Tang after eating and wash your hands with it. The banquet table was filled with flowers, pomegranates and other fashionable things, and the Mid-Autumn Festival drama was staged.

The above is the Mid-Autumn Festival food prepared by Bian Xiao.