Introduction: The Double Ninth Festival is one of the traditional festivals, and the customs of the Double Ninth Festival are also related to food. So what should we eat on the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, 2019? What traditional food should we eat on the Double Ninth Festival? The ninth month of the lunar calendar has many nicknames, including late autumn, late autumn, poor autumn, cool autumn, frost business, and business order. The ground is filled with the fragrance of chrysanthemums. More exciting content about the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 2019 can be found on Mr. Shui Mo's website.What should we eat on the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, 2019? What traditional food should we eat on the Double Ninth Festival?Traditional food for the Double Ninth Festival: Flower CakeWhen talking about the traditional food of Double Ninth Festival, flower cake must be ranked first. The tradition of eating flower cake on Double Ninth Festival has existed as early as the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, flower cake was not called flower cake, but was called "Peng Er". The origin of eating flower cakes on Double Ninth Festival comes from the custom of climbing high places on Double Ninth Festival. Where there are mountains, you can climb to the top, but where there are no mountains to climb, people will find alternative ways. Since "gao" (cake) and "gao" (high) sound the same, the custom of eating flower cakes emerged. Chrysanthemum Wine Of course, we cannot forget chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was brewed during the Double Ninth Festival of the previous year specifically for the Double Ninth Festival of the following year. On September 9th, people pick newly opened chrysanthemums and some green branches and leaves, mix them with the grain they are going to make wine, and then use all of them to make wine, which they will drink on September 9th of the following year. Legend has it that drinking this wine can prolong one's life. Traditional food for Double Ninth Festival: chestnut cake Among Beijing's snacks, there are two that are eaten exclusively during the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made with chestnut paste as the main ingredient. The method is to peel the raw chestnuts, steam them until they are soft, and then mash them into paste. Prepare large slices of Beijing cake and chengsha filling. Divide 200 grams of chestnut paste into three portions, spread one portion as the bottom layer, then spread a layer of Beijing cake slices, and then smooth another portion on the Beijing cake slices. After spreading a layer of chengsha filling, spread the last portion of chestnut paste on the top layer, and use Beijing cake slices cut into small diamond shapes and thin green plum shreds to form a pattern on it. It becomes a chestnut cake with five layers of yellow on the top, middle and bottom, and red and brown in the middle. Traditional food for Double Ninth Festival: Chrysanthemum wine Drink "chrysanthemum wine" on Double Ninth Festival. Jiujiu is homophonic with "long", which means "long" and "wine", hence the saying that Jiujiu should drink chrysanthemum wine. In the golden month of September, chrysanthemums bloom proudly in the frost. Literati call September the "Chrysanthemum Month", common people call chrysanthemums "Nine Flowers", and Beijing regards chrysanthemum as one of its city flowers. Due to the unique quality of chrysanthemum in resisting cold weather, it has become a symbol of vitality. It has unusual cultural significance to the ancients, who believed it to be a "longevity prolonger" and "immortality grass" that can make people stronger as they age. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was brewed during the Double Ninth Festival of the previous year specifically for the Double Ninth Festival of the following year. On September 9th, people pick newly opened chrysanthemums and some green branches and leaves, mix them with the grain they are going to make wine, and then use all of them to make wine, which they will drink on September 9th of the following year. Legend has it that drinking this wine can prolong one's life. The "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" states: "On September 9, people wear dogwood, eat lotus ears, and drink chrysanthemum wine to live longer." Traditional food for the Double Ninth Festival: mutton noodles We eat mutton noodles on Double Ninth Festival. "Sheep" and "Yang" are homophones, which corresponds to the Double Ninth Festival. Eat white flour. “White” is the character “bai” without the “one” on top, which means one hundred minus one equals ninety-nine, which corresponds to the “nine-nine” tradition. In Beijing, the birthday celebration for a 99-year-old is called "Bai Shou". Rich families would hold banquets on that day featuring mutton as the main dish, including stir-frying, roasting, shabu-shabu and even a whole lamb banquet. Autumn is the season when sheep are the fattest, and mutton is warm in nature and can keep you warm. There are many famous snacks in northern Shaanxi with buckwheat noodles and mutton as the main ingredients, such as mutton sauce noodles, mutton buckwheat noodles, etc. People in northern Shaanxi enjoy buckwheat noodles and mutton at night during the Double Ninth Festival. Mutton is warm in nature, replenishes Qi and strengthens deficiency, warms the middle and lower body, and treats consumptive disease, emaciation, soreness of the waist and knees, and five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries. In Compendium of Materia Medica, mutton is called a warm tonic that replenishes the primordial yang and benefits the blood and qi. Traditional food for the Double Ninth Festival: eating glutinous rice cakes Eating glutinous rice cakes is another food custom during the Double Ninth Festival in southwestern my country. Ciba is divided into two types: soft and sweet, and hard and salty. The method is to put the washed glutinous rice into a pot of boiling water, scoop it out as soon as it boils, steam it in a steamer, then put it in a mortar and mash it, and knead it into a ball. When eating, fry the sesame seeds, mash them into fine powder, roll the glutinous rice cake into strips, pinch them into small pieces, and mix them with sesame seeds, sugar, etc. Traditional food for Double Ninth Festival: Crab Another food on the Double Ninth Festival is crabs. The poem by Zheng Banqiao: "As the Double Ninth Festival comes, hold the crab claws and cut young ginger." is the evidence of the tradition of eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival. Crabs are rich in protein and are known as high-quality protein foods. Crab meat is relatively delicate, and its muscle fibers contain more than 10 kinds of free amino acids, including relatively high levels of glutamic acid, proline, and arginine, which is very beneficial for people who need nutritional supplements. Your fortune will change over the years, but if you predict and understand it in advance, you can nip it in the bud and make full preparations, making your life journey smoother! 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