Eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, eat moon cakes in the Mid Autumn Festival, what do you e

Qingming time, in most places in the south,You will eat a food with artemisia grass as the main feature - Artemisia baba, which is also called Qingtuan in some places, which is a traditional food that is both delicious and nutritious.

China's food culture is broad and profound, and we will have some special customs in every traditional festivalAnd these customs are often associated with gastronomy as well. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, we will eat sweet and soft glutinous zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will eat moon cakes that symbolize reunion that are very similar to the shape of the moon, and this custom also evolved from the ancient tradition of worshipping the moon. During the Qingming Festival, a traditional food will also be eatenHowever, this custom is usually in the southern part of the country, and everyone will eat a food called Artemisia Baba.

During the Qingming Festival, we are accustomed to stepping on spring and picking some artemisia grass to wash our hands, which means that there is a good omen at the beginning of spring, driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters. Every year in March, the friends in the south will go to the mountains to pick some artemisia grass to make artemisia baba. The practice of artemisia baba is also variedDepending on the region, there will be different methods, some areas will be clumped with glutinous rice to make a soft and glutinous appearance, and some places will add a little bacon to make it crispy and crispy by frying itThe crunchy dough with the scent of fresh artemisia grass and a small pot of new tea can be said to be a beautiful thing in the world.

Similar to some of our other traditional customs, eating Artemisia baba on Qingming Festival is also related to some of our traditional cultures. In traditional Chinese culture, Artemisia annua has the effect of driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters, and people often use Artemisia to commemorate the deceased and express their sorrows. At the same time, artemisia is also a very common grass, and the taste is also very fresh, as a coarse grain, for us modern peopleProper consumption is also very good for good health.

On this Qingming Festival, I will eat boiled eggs with shepherd's cabbage.

Eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat "Qingtuan" according to custom, the traditional Qingtuan is made of wormwood juice, which tastes a little bitter.

Artemisia baba must be eaten before and after the Qingming Festival, which is used to commemorate the deep remembrance of deceased relatives and friends, and at the same time to pray for the health and longevity of the family.

The eating habits of each place are different and cannot be generalized, but in our place, Qingtuan is a sweet made with glutinous rice flour, wormwood and bean paste during the Qingming Festival.

In the Jiangnan area, there is a habit of eating Qingtuanzi on the Qingming Festival; There is also the Hakka mugwort, there is an old saying that "eat mugwort before and after the Qingming Festival, and you will not get sick all year round"; There are also mushroom buns, steamed buns, and eggs.

The Qingming Festival coincides with the spring when all things are conceived, and the word "chicken" and "auspicious" are homophonic, so the eggs should be eaten in the morning of the Qingming Festival, which has the meaning of auspiciousness and praying for health.

During the Qingming Festival, the customs of eating Qingtuanzi in the south of the Yangtze River are the customs and habits of eating Qingtuanzi, and the mushroom bun is the traditional snack of Qingming in Taining, and there is a food custom of eating dumplings during the Qingming Festival in the north and south of China.

Grass is eaten in many places during the Qingming Festival. It's the kind of weeds that grow in the spring. They mix weeds and bacon and mix them together with flour. It tasted delicious to us. This weed is called Artemisia.

In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, there is a custom of eating Qingtuan on Qingming Festival. Some places retain the habit of eating cold food during the Qingming Festival, and many places eat the sacrificial food separately after completing the sacrificial ceremony.

That's because mooncakes represent reunion, so we eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival to meet the occasion.

As an authentic Cantonese person, we pay the most attention to "Yitou", on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we will definitely eat food will be:Mooncakes, grapefruit, persimmons, taro, fried snails, water chestnuts, star fruit, bananas, chestnuts.

Mooncakes

The meaning of moon cakes, I think everyone knows that it represents the meaning of reunion and sweetness.

Grapefruit

Because "pomelo" and "you" are homonyms, eating grapefruit during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a symbol of the good will to hope that the moon will bless you.

Persimmons

Because in the eyes of Cantonese people, persimmon means auspiciousness. Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, persimmons are our indispensable snacks.

Taro

Because "taro" and "head protection" are homonyms in Cantonese, eating taro together during the Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace.

Stir-fried snails

Because there is such a legend in our Guangdong neighborhood: eating snails on August 15 can make the eyes as bright as the autumn moon. Therefore, there is the custom of eating snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Water chestnut

In the eyes of Cantonese people, water chestnut is a representative of smart and clever, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, children will eat a little water chestnut, meaning the blessing of adults to children.

Star fruit

Because the cross-section of star fruit resembles a star, it is especially suitable for eating when admiring the moon, which means that it should shine like a star.

Bananas

Because the shape of bananas is similar to the moon, it is also particularly suitable for eating when admiring the moon, and bananas also imply the meaning of fortune and treasure.

Chestnuts

Because autumn is the season of chestnut harvest, and the taste of chestnuts is delicate and soft, and it has the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, so it is a good product for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it also means that there is plenty of food and clothing.

Mid-autumn festival.

Family reunion, happiness, full moon, joy and peace!

Because for a long time, people in many places have not eaten moon cakes very much, after the improvement of material living standards, moon cakes are not easy to digest with high oil and high sugar, and it is easy to feel uncomfortable when you eat too much, and many people do not eat them during the holidays.

The most obvious sign is that if a person usually has no personal contacts and no one comes to deliver moon cakes during the holidays, this person will most likely not buy moon cakes to eat by themselves, because many people don't think moon cakes are delicious.

In some respects, zongzi is the same, there is usually no place to eat zongzi customs, and it is rare to eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, but it is difficult to sell zongzi itself, and it is not easy to develop its gift attributes.

But very few people will buy mooncakes in the bakery of the dessert shop, and instead they are usually other cakes similar to mooncakes, which are more delicious and not greasy or indigestible.

And moon cakes have been used for many years, and last year's moon cakes will continue to be sold this year, or the news that expired moon cakes will be remade. Some manufacturers will also go to the lotus paste and other things in the **** moon cakes.

The moon cake represents separation;

The eating customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Han lunar calendar. Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, praised moon cakes with the poem "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and cakes", from which it can be seen that the moon cakes in the Song Dynasty have been filled with ghee and sugar. In the Ming Dynasty, the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival was more common.

Ming Shen Bang's "Miscellaneous Notes of the Wan Department" contains: "Shishu furniture is a moon-made dough cake, which varies in size and is called a moon cake. ”

"In August, the palace appreciates begonias and hosta flowers. Since the first day of the new year, there are people who sell moon cakes, and on the fifteenth, every family offers moon cakes, melons and fruits. If there is any leftover moon cake, it is collected in a dry and cool place, and it is used at the end of the year, and it is called reunion cake. ”

History. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient China, popularized in the Han Dynasty, was stereotyped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient celestial worship - the custom of respecting the moon.

At the time of the autumn equinox, it is the ancient "moon festival". The Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the traditional "Moon Festival". According to research, the original "Moon Festival" was set on the day of the "autumn equinox" of the 24th solar term of the Ganzhi calendar;

However, since the day of this day in the eighth month of the lunar calendar varies from year to year, there may not be a full moon, and later the "Moon Festival" was adjusted from the "autumn equinox" to the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Worshipping the moon is a very ancient custom in our country, and it is actually a kind of worship activity of the ancients in some parts of our country in ancient times to the "moon god".