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In August 15 mid-autumn festival, be Chun Huaqiu fact, one year arduous work ties goes the season of fructification of plentiful and substantial. At the appointed time domestic home wants beautiful wine of cate of buy of a small room, cherish the joyance of the bumper harvest, spend joyfully festival, form our country thereby rich and varied mid-autumn dietary custom.

　　 Eat moon cake

“Festival eats moon cake mid-autumn ” , it is our country circulates long already traditional custom. Every time wind Qing Yuelang, Gui Xiangqin’s person during, domestic home tastes moon cake, admire a moon, festival reunion, have a distinctive flavour.

Moon cake is like a full moon as a kind of form, the food of embedded beautiful stuffing, already appeared in period of Northen Song Dynasty. The poet holds the Su Dongpo that savours the home concurrently to have ” if small cake chews a month, there is crisp He Yi in ” line. And as a kind of food, call ” moon cake ” , criterion only then see at the Southern Song Dynasty ” evaporate of · of Wu Lin old job makes food ” . At that time, hangzhou folk has ” with make a present of of moon cake photograph, take the idea that reunions mid-autumn ” . Arrived yuan of face last years of a dynasty or reign, moon cake already became beauty of day of the Mid-autumn Festival to nod.

　　 Eat pumpkin

Changjiang Delta each district crosses the Mid-autumn Festival, rich other people has moon cake, poverty-stricken other people has the custom that eats pumpkin.

“Ate pumpkin partly in August ” is custom how come? Fokelore is very long a long time ago, the foot of a hill is staying in a poverty-stricken family south, father and mother is aged, there is one only below genu female, be called chrysanthemum, beautiful, clever, kind-hearted, laborious. In those days famine due to crop failures of in successive years, the parents of chrysanthemum is aged and sickish, add be short of the garment to be fed less, disease is on the bed, be about to die. That day in August 15, chrysanthemum is in south in hill fireweed clump, discover wild melon of two oblate form. She was collected come back, boil parents to eat. Appetizing, sweet taste, two often ate appetite to soar, ill body it may not be a bad idea. Chrysanthemum girl plants melon seed in the ground, the 2nd year as expected rooted and gemmiparous, the melon that grows a lot of round circles comes, because this is from south hill is collected come, call pumpkin. From now on, annual August 15 that day, changjiang Delta every family is circulating the custom that ate old pumpkin to cook meal of polished glutinous rice partly in August.

　　 Eat river snail

As to eat river snail mid-autumn, be in between clear salty good year ” suitable heart county annals ” have write down: “In August the 15th day of a lunar month, shang Yu eats snail. ” folk thinks, mid-autumn river snail, can bright eye. According to the analysis, snail flesh nutrition is rich, and contains vitamin A is the important matter that the eye looks pigment. Eat river snail but bright eye, sound reasonable. But why must be fond of particularly in the Mid-autumn Festival those who feed. Mid-autumn around, it is river snail nonpregnant when, small snail is not had inside the abdomen, accordingly, the flesh is qualitative special fat. It is the optimal time that eats river snail. Be in Guangzhou folk nowadays, many families are during mid-autumn, have the habit that fries river snail.

　　 Eat sweet potato

Eat sweet potato mid-autumn, criterion calamity of disappear of implied meaning exorcise evil spirits, have the idea that expresses not to believe unhealthy environmental influences that cause disease. Clear Qianlong the last of the ten Heavenly Stems not year ” annals of current state seat of government ” say: “Play a month mid-autumn, pare taro is fed, those who call pare ghost skin ” . Pare ghost and feed, have the lofty quality of ghost of Zhong Kui drive greatly,

　　 Wine of drink sweet-scented osmanthus

Whenever the night mid-autumn, people is looking up at orange osmanthus of the middle of a month, hearing a Zhen Guixiang, drink wine of nectar of a cup of laurel, celebrate joyously sweetness adding up to the home, happily gather under the same roof, already became a kind of beautiful enjoyment of the festival.

Sweet-scented osmanthus can be offerred not only view and admire, and still have edible value. Of Qu Yuan ” 9 songs ” in, have ” aid as thoroghbred horse bottle drink laurel oar ” , ” oar of Dian Guixi any of several hot spice plants ” line. See the time of brew of sweet-scented osmanthus of our country drink, already was quite ages ago.

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Autumn season, be Xian Ouying city when. Bright lotus root besides containing many carbohydrate, protein and all sorts of vitamins and mineral content are very rich also, folk has early ” collect tender lotus root newly to get the better of imperial physician ” say. To old people, qiu Ougeng is taste of take a tonic to build up health is good feed capable person.

If want to let lotus root have the method of treating yin deficiency by reinforcing body fluid and nourishing the blood that raise a stomach, be good at the action that lienal beneficial enrages, must machine it ripe. Explanation of appropriate of king of head of department of nutrition of dietotherapy of the wide hospital that install the gate says academy of sciences of Chinese traditional Chinese medical science, the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine thinks, unripe lotus root but disappear Yu cool blood, clear irritated heat, stop vomit is thirsty, the woman is postpartum diet raw or cold food, alone not avoid lotus root, have very good disappear Yu effect because of lotus root namely. But sex of unripe lotus root is cold, gan Liang enters a stomach, for flimsy to intestines and stomach old people, the likelihood still can have certain stimulative effect. And machine lotus root to ripe hind, its sex by cool become lukewarm, although lost the property of disappear Yu, clear heat, turn into however beneficial to taste,

Make lotus root treatment into lotus root starch especially, be old people rare more feed Bu Jia to taste, already rich nutrition, digest easily again, have raise blood hemostatic, the appetizing effect in tone. At ordinary times the senile friend with bad taste, might as well taking the advantage of fresh when autumn lotus root appears on the market, eat more a few, oneself make lotus root starch in the home.

The method that make is very simple: Above all, slice of lotus root gross, to accelerate dry rate, can first on evaporate 5 minutes; Next, lotus root piece the insolation on the gauze that tile is in clean, etc insolation, bask in after appearing, powder is pounded in putting mortar can.

When breakfast, develop the lotus root starch that on one bowl of small glittering and translucent get rid of appears with boiled water, light lotus root is sweet special conduce to an old person appetizing. From the point of nutrient angle, can assure to absorb enough carbohydrate not only, still have C of a few vitamins and prandial thread at the same time. If drink congee in the morning everyday, might as well now and then change taste, will nod lotus root starch, like to eat sweet of the mouth, nod honey, brown sugar or still can be being added appropriately is sweet-scented osmanthus. Do with lotus root starch afternoon adding meat also is right choice.

When choosing lotus root, also have exquisite. The surface should be carried to send form of yellow, lotus root when buying brawny, the place of fracture surface is being heard have a faint scent. Use industrial the lotus lotus root that acid treatment crosses looks very white, hearing have tart flavor. The attention should be not had, without sodden, without rusty spot, ceaseless section, not drying shrinkage, did not become angry. Each part of lotus root has different treatment edible kind, if lotus root is pointed the part is smaller, can mix eat. The part among suits to be being fried eat, older common treatment makes lotus root starch, sweetmeat or blast wear eat.

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