What are the special foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival? A collection of ancient poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival in seven-character quatrains

What are the special foods for the Mid-Autumn Festival? A collection of ancient poems about the Mid-Autumn Festival in seven-character quatrains
Introduction: Some customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are related to food, so what are the special foods of the Mid-Autumn Festival? A complete collection of seven-character quatrain ancient poems for the Mid-Autumn Festival! According to the Chinese lunar calendar, August is the second month of autumn, which was called Mid-Autumn in ancient times. Do you want to know more about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the days in the eighth month of the lunar calendar in 2020? Let’s go to Mr. Shui Mo’s website to learn more.

What are the special foods for Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival specialties: mooncakes
Mooncakes, also known as moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc., were offerings to the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times.
Mooncakes were originally used as offerings to the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival moon-watching and mooncake tasting as a symbol of family reunion.
Mooncakes symbolize reunion, and people regard them as festive food, using them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends. Today, eating mooncakes has become an essential custom for celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China. People eat mooncakes on this day to show "reunion".
Mid-Autumn Festival specialties: crab
Autumn is also the season when crabs are abundant, and it is a good time for many seafood lovers to try them.
As early as the Ming Dynasty, crabs became the protagonist of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. The book "Zhuo Zhong Zhi" wrote: "When the crabs are steamed to about 50%, people gather together to eat them. They laugh and play, peel off the crab belly covers, pick them with their fingernails, and dip them in vinegar and garlic to accompany their wine." At that time, the crabs were steamed in cattail bags, and people sat around to eat them, with wine and vinegar as a side. It was very popular.
Crabs are cold in nature, so it is best to eat them while they are hot, and dip them in ginger, wine and other foods to remove the coldness.
Mid-Autumn Festival Specialty Food: Pomelo
Pomelo is one of the must-haves for the Mid-Autumn Festival, because "pomelo" is homophonic with "you", which means "you", and it also means hoping for the blessing of the moon.
After eating sweet mooncakes, you can eat some sweet and sour grapefruit, which can stimulate your appetite, relieve greasiness and leave your mouth feeling refreshed. Pomelo tastes sweet and sour with a slight bitter taste. It is rich in vitamin C and a large number of other nutrients. It is recognized by the medical community as the fruit with the most therapeutic benefits. It has the effects of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood lipids, losing weight, and beautifying the skin. Regular consumption has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases such as diabetes and vascular sclerosis, and has the function of strengthening the body and beautifying the skin for obese people.
Mid-Autumn Festival Specialty Food: Taro
In Taiwan, it is also popular to eat taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a saying: "Eat rice flour and taro, and you will have a good start."
Using the homophones of taro and road, people pray to their ancestors to bless them in finding a good job.
Eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival is meant to ward off evil and disasters, and also means not to believe in evil. The "Chaozhou Prefecture Chronicle" of the Guiwei year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty said: "On Mid-Autumn Festival, people enjoy the moon and peel taro to eat it, which is called peeling ghost skin." Peeling ghosts and eating them has the spirit of Zhong Kui exorcising ghosts, which is respectable.
Mid-Autumn Festival specialties: snails
As for eating snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a record in the "Shunde County Chronicles" during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty: "On the full moon day of August, people eat taro and snails." People believe that eating snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival can improve eyesight.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the snails are empty-bellied, with no small snails inside, and their meat is particularly plump and delicious, making it the best time to eat snails.
Nowadays, many families in Guangzhou have the habit of stir-frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival special food: osmanthus wine
On every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the osmanthus in the moon, smell the osmanthus fragrance, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family, and gather together. It has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival.
Osmanthus is not only for viewing, but also has food value. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are the lines "helping the horse to fight and pouring cinnamon juice" and "pouring cinnamon wine and pepper juice". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus and making wine in my country is quite long.

A Complete Collection of Seven-Character Quatrain Ancient Poems on Mid-Autumn Festival

Moon Watching on the 15th Night
Wang Jian The ground in the courtyard is white, crows are roosting on the trees, and the cold dewdrops are silently wetting the osmanthus flowers.
Tonight the moon is bright and everyone is looking at it, but I wonder whose house the autumn thoughts fall on!
Mid-Autumn Moon
Su Shi The evening clouds have all disappeared, leaving behind the chill, The Milky Way silently turns like a jade plate.
This night in this life will not last long, where will I see the bright moon next year?
Moonlit Night
Liu Fangping The moon is darker and half of the houses are illuminated by the moon. The Northern Dipper is tilted while the Southern Dipper is slanted.
Tonight I feel the spring air is warming, and the sound of insects is coming through the green window screens.
Chang'e
Li Shangyin: The candlelight is deep behind the mica screen, and the morning stars are sinking into the long river.
Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, as her heart is filled with the blue sky and the blue sea every night.
Frost Moon
Li Shangyin: When I first heard the migrating geese, there were no cicadas anymore, and the water reached the sky from the hundred-foot-high building.
Qingnv and Su'e are both cold-resistant, and they compete with Chang'e in the frost in the moon.
Mid-Autumn Moon
Yan Shu Ten frosty shadows are turning around the courtyard tree, and this evening the prisoner is alone in the corner.
Su'e may not be without regrets, the jade moon is cold and the osmanthus is lonely.
Tianzhu Temple August 15th night osmanthus
The jade beads of Pi Rixiu fell down to the moon, and I picked up the fresh dew in front of the palace.
Until now, I still don’t know what happened in the sky. It must have been thrown to people by Chang’e.
Climbing the Tower to Watch the Moon During the Mid-Autumn Festival
Mi Fu's eyes looked into the Huaihai Sea, which was as full as silver, and thousands of rainbow lights nurtured precious clams.
If there were no moon house in the sky, the cassia branches would be damaged and lean towards the western wheel.

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