The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon reunion, people reunion, spring and autumn fruit, osmanthus flowers full of the city, people gather together to pray for a good harvest, flowers in the cup, the moon in the cup, its joy and harmony.
When it comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the first thing people think of is to admire the moon and eat moon cakes.
In the "Book of Rites", the "Autumn Twilight Moon" is the festival moon, during the Middle and Tang Dynasties, the august 15th to climb the tower to admire the moon began to prevail, and in the Song Dynasty, it was even more lively, and the "Tokyo Dream Hualu" recorded: "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, your family knotted the tai xie, and the folk competed to occupy the restaurant to play the moon."
Mid-Autumn Moon · Mid-Autumn Moon
[Ming] Xu Youzhen
Mid-Autumn Moon. The month to the Mid-Autumn Festival is more clean. Partial and pure, know how much he is, yin and sunny.
The clouds and clouds are all said, and the good times on earth are happy. Good season, may it be every year, common Mid-Autumn Moon.
Mooncakes only appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, the word "mooncake", first seen in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Record", at first it was just a kind of steaming food, a kind of sacrifice used to worship the moon god, until the Ming Dynasty and the Mid-Autumn Festival had a connection, people made their own fruit filling mooncakes, gifted to relatives and friends, expressing the meaning of blessings and reunion.
The earliest record of the mooncake method is the "Sui Garden Menu" of The Qing Yuan, which records two kinds of mooncake methods, one is Liu Fangbo mooncake and the other is lace mooncake.
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Use Shandong flying noodles, as a puff pastry as a skin, with pine nuts, walnut kernels, melon seeds as a fine mince, slightly add rock sugar and lard filling, the food is not very sweet, and the fragrant pine is soft and greasy, very unusual.
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Mingfu homemade lace mooncakes, not under Liu Fangbo in Shandong. Yu often used a palanquin to welcome his female chef to the garden to make it, and watched the flying noodles mixed with raw fauna dumplings, and then used jujube meat embedded as a filling, cut like a bowl, and rubbed its four sides with his hands. Use two braziers, cover them up and down and burn them. The dates are not peeled, and their freshness is taken; the oil is not boiled first, and its raw is also taken. Containing the upper mouth and melting, sweet but not greasy, loose but not stagnant, its work is all in the squeeze, the more the more wonderful.
As the capital of food and leisure, Sichuan naturally has a variety of tricks in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating mooncakes and playing mahjong, Sichuan people also play rice dumplings, eat hemp cakes, kill ducks, play osmanthus flowers, light orange lanterns, dance meteor incense balls and so on during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
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The people of Sichuan make rice dumplings before the Mid-Autumn Festival, symbolizing harvest, festivity and reunion. In Sichuan, rice dumplings are a must-have for the Mid-Autumn Festival and mooncakes.
In some places in Sichuan folk, some osmanthus flowers will be added to the rice dumplings, or beaten together to make bay fin dumplings, and then dipped in fried soybean noodles and white sugar to eat, the taste is quiet and elegant, sweet and refreshing, with a unique flavor. In other places, some cooked red beans will be wrapped in hot rice dumplings, and then add the right amount of salt, cut the rice dumplings into oval pieces, put them in rapeseed oil and fry them until golden brown, making red bean oil dumplings, which are good in color, aroma and taste. Sichuan people also like to drizzle fried rice dumplings with brown sugar, which means people's yearning for life, not only reunion, but also auspicious, harvest and unity.
Playing sticks
Brown sugar sticks
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Sichuan people eat soup and salt and pepper cake during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a very noodle thing when they were young.
Ma cake, one of the traditional Chinese famous spots, but also a long history of authentic Sichuan dian, the earliest appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty, the name "money cake", delicious flavor, in the rural marriage, hemp cake is regarded as a happy cake, meaning auspicious. In the fifty-first year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1786), the soup cake was first made. Soup hemp cake is made by hand, after the selection of ingredients → ingredients→ the production of noodles and water → (crispy, skin noodles, heart) → package of puff pastry → blank → molding → sticky sesame → plating → baking → the production process of the finished product, the finished product is uniform in color, the surface has sesame seeds, the fire is exquisite, yellow but not burnt, the skin is crispy, sweetened slag, fragrant, and fragrant, deeply loved by the people of Sichuan.
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In addition to soup and linen cakes, pretzel and salt hemp cakes are also a souvenir for Sichuan people to visit relatives and friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to the characteristics of the thin skin and the fragrance of the hemp cake, the peppercorn and salt are used as the ingredients, which achieve the unique flavor of pure sweetness, slight hemp and slightly salty, and have become a well-deserved famous product in Sichuan dian.
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Killing ducks is the highlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival in western Sichuan.
First of all, the selection of ducks is very exquisite, this duck must be the duck of the year, the duck at this time is fat and thin, after slaughtering and cleaning, remove the wing tips and soles, add salt and marinate for one night into the taste; and then the next day put the pickled duck in boiling water to heat the duck skin tight, fish out and drain; the third step into the smoker, smoke with straw, until the duck skin is brown, out of the oven; the fourth and most important step, put the duck into the brine pot for about 20 minutes, be sure to use the old brine, appropriately add spices, salt and sugar Finally, out of the pot, cut into pieces and plate, the smoked duck with full color and flavor is ready.
Kill the ducks
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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the people of Luzhou are busy harvesting osmanthus flowers and making osmanthus cakes and other delicacies.
It is the golden autumn season, the osmanthus forest is full of fragrance, it is a good time to beat the osmanthus flowers. Taking advantage of the fact that the sky is still dark, the whole family goes out together, at this time the osmanthus absorbs the dew at night, it is easier to fall, and when the sun comes out, the water vapor evaporates, the petals are light, and it is not easy to fall! Everyone had a bamboo pole, and under the blow, the yellow flower rain fell one after another, which was beautiful. The fallen osmanthus flowers are sifted off the leaves and branches, and then manually picked, kneaded, and made together with glutinous rice flour and sugar to make osmanthus cakes, which are fragrant and sweet but not greasy.
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During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sichuanese people will light orange lanterns and hang them at the door to celebrate.
Spring and autumn, autumn oranges ripe, fruit fat, Sichuan people will make orange lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival, generally adults in the family with children to do together, is a very interesting parent-child activity. Use a knife to cut off a section of the skin on the top of the orange, and then use two hands to gently knead the bottom half of the bottom, take out a bunch of orange petals from the orange peel, hollow out the orange, and then use a large needle wearing twine to punch and thread around the edge of the small orange bowl, make a small basket shape, pick it up with a small bamboo stick, and finally place a small candle in the small orange bowl. In the evening, the candles are lit, and the candles are flickering, warm and lovely. There are also some children who will carry orange lanterns to visit the door, that is, the most beautiful cubs on the street, children on the grapefruit full of incense, dancing along the street, called "dancing meteor incense ball".
Orange lamp
I hope that people will be long-lasting, and thousands of miles will be cherished together!