What customs should you pay attention to when traveling to Shenzhen and Shanghai?

Su Zonghe, the former head of the Shenzhen-Shanghai Cultural Station, told reporters that eating sugar taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient Central Plains custom preserved in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Every Mid-Autumn Festival at noon, every household in Shenzhen and Shanghai will cook a dish of sugar taro to worship the Lord of the Earth. It can be said that housewives in Shenzhen and Shanghai can cook sugar taro.

Nowadays, many people go to hotels to dine during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are fewer people making sugar taro at home. Most families go directly to the hotel to order sugar taro. Yesterday, when the reporter went to Shenzhen and Shanghai for interviews, he met many people from Shenzhen and Shanghai who ordered sugar taro to eat at the hotel.

So, when did the custom of eating sugar taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Shenzhen and Shanghai begin?

“The custom of eating sugar taro has a long history and is an old custom of the Central Plains preserved by Shenzhen and Shanghai people.” Su Zonghe said that eating sugar taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival embodies people’s best wishes and expectations for life. Hope! People in southern Fujian like to say "taro children and taro grandchildren", and people like to use taro to describe reunions. "There is a saying that 'eat sugar taro on August 15th,' and everyone will protect it.' The word 'protect' is similar to the word 'protect' in the Hokkien language." "Yao" has the same pronunciation as "Yao". Lao Su said that "Yao" has become a must-eat food on reunion festivals such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is very sweet for the whole family to get together, so the sweet sugar taro appeared. < /p>