In addition to admiring the moon and eating moon cakes during the Mid Autumn Festival, you can also

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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eat 2 more foods, the first must eat food: osmanthus wine or osmanthus cake.

Drinking osmanthus wine and tasting osmanthus cake on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival is actually an ancient tradition. As early as the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded in the Kaiyuan Tianbao ceremony that people would drink alcohol while admiring the moon on stage during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and called it the moon shadow.

And the Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly in September and October of the new calendar, which is the season when the osmanthus is fragrant, which is the most suitable for making osmanthus cake. Osmanthus means harvest and beauty, so eating osmanthus cake and drinking osmanthus wine during the Mid-Autumn Festival also symbolizes the pursuit of a better life.

The second must-eat food: crab.

Mid-Autumn Festival October, it is the time when the crab is ripe and yellow and fat, and its taste is the best at this time. Moreover, crabs and crabs have the same sound, and in the Mid-Autumn Festival, they eat crabs to express their gratitude to their relatives and friends.

The first must-do: moon viewing.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family eats moon cakes, drinks osmanthus wine, and then appreciates the bright moon in the sky, relaxed, and the family is reunited, with the intention of looking forward to a successful and auspicious celebration.

The second must-do: prepare for the reunion feast.

There is a reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve, and a reunion dinner is also eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Yuan has a special meaning for Chinese, and the whole family sits around to eat a reunion dinner, which is a warm ceremony, happy and healthy.

1. Moon viewing. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, China has the custom of admiring the moon since ancient times, and the "Book of Rites" records the "autumn twilight and sunset", that is, worshipping the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon.

Set up a large incense table, put on moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut into lotus shapes.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular for moon viewing and playing with the moon. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation wind was more prosperous, according to the "Tokyo Menghualu" record: "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the noble family knotted the pavilion, and the people competed to occupy the restaurant to play the moon."

Every day, all the shops and restaurants in the capital have to re-decorate the façade, the archway is tied with silk and hung colors, ** fresh fruits and refined food, the night market is very lively, the people climb the platform more, some rich families enjoy the moon on their own pavilions, and put food or arrange family banquets, reunite their children, and enjoy the moon together.

2. Play Rabbit.

The rabbit brother is made of hidden mud, the head of the rabbit is human, wearing armor, inserting the back flag, the face is pasted with gold clay, the body is painted, or sitting or standing, or pounding the pestle or riding the beast, erecting two big ears, and also Zhuang is harmonious. The Qing Dynasty court called the jade rabbit in the moon the Taiyin Jun. However, the common people call it the rabbit master, which is more affectionate.

In the folk customs around Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifice rabbit is really not solemn enough and the game is more than enough.