Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion. As a kind of food that looks like a full moon and contains good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo, a poet and gourmet, has a poem that "a small cake is like chewing the moon, with crisp and glutinous inside". As a kind of food, it is called "moon cake", which first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Steamed Food from Wulin". At that time, there was a folk saying in Hangzhou that "mooncakes were fed to each other, which meant Mid-Autumn Festival reunion". By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become the Japanese and American styles of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Chestnut of traditional food in Mid-Autumn Festival

When the autumn is cool, the fragrance of sugar-fried chestnuts begins to float all over the streets. Chestnuts, like taro and corn, are also a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Chestnut is sweet and cold, and has the functions of nourishing the stomach, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidney and strengthening the tendons. It is most suitable for autumn. Chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, and diabetics can eat them in moderation, which is most suitable for the elderly and the infirm.

Chestnut can not only be a snack, but also be eaten. Famous dishes include chestnut duck, chestnut roast chicken and chestnut stew chicken soup. At the same time, it can give full play to the delicious taste of chestnut. It is essential to eat healthily in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival traditional food grapefruit

Autumn is coming. Besides clothes, fruits are also changing seasons. You will find that those heavy and golden pomelos are beginning to enter the fruit stalls. Each pot is heavy in your hand, the peel exudes a ripe fragrance, and the flesh is thick, juicy and sweet. This grapefruit is full of the richest side in autumn, and it is worthy of being the king of fruits in this season, and it is also delicious.