I remember when I was in elementary school, I learned a simple poem by Li Bai, "Quiet Night Poem": the bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground, looking up at the bright moon, looking down at the hometown.
I believe that most people are about to turn their backs like a stream, but when they were young, they could not understand the mood of this poem, although the poem was catchy but did not know what it was to "look up at the bright moon and look down at your hometown." ”
Now after leaving home, it dawns on me that the bright moon is not just the bright moon but the place you want to go back to and arrive at, or it can be said to be a utopia in your heart, and the hometown is not just the hometown, but also the person you miss.
Will you go home this year's Mid-Autumn Festival?
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the wanderers and relatives who have left home rush home to gather with their parents and friends and drink wine. At the moment, what to eat is very important in various places. For example, "eat rice flour taro, there is a good head road" is to eat taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival to bless yourself with smooth roads after that. Crab, osmanthus duck, loquat, etc., are all mid-autumn season delicacies. Mooncakes, which symbolize reunion, are also sought-after goods in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Shanghai
In addition to mooncakes, the "old three things" are essential on the family table during the Shanghai Mid-Autumn Festival - duck, taro and edamame. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the business of selling osmanthus wine in the shop was much better than usual. Shangzhi people also like to eat hanging flowers, using osmanthus as a condiment to add fragrance to food production, impregnating osmanthus flowers with sugar or salt, and keeping the incense in a sealed container for a long time, or when making pastries, and rice noodles to make osmanthus cakes, or sprinkling a pinch when burning soup sweet potatoes and sugar taro, the color is beautiful. In addition, the wine-stuffed dumplings are also a must-eat food for Shanghainese in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
chekiang
The reason why Hangzhou's lettuce perch stew has become a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet is not only because the lettuce perch is delicious in this season, but also because Zhang Han of the Jin Dynasty borrowed the homesick "lettuce, sea bass" and abandoned the historical facts of returning to his hometown, this story has not only become a beautiful talk through the ages, but also made lettuce a symbol of homesickness. Lettuce is a Mid-Autumn Festival family feast and an August seasonal vegetable soup. Lettuce, also known as horseshoe grass and aquatic vegetable, is an aquatic root leafy grass plant. The roots, stems and leaves of lettuce are not only green and fragrant, tender and delicious, but also rich in nutrients.
Beijing
The traditional mooncakes of old Beijing include tap red, tap white and pulp mooncakes. Pulp mooncake refers to a method of making mooncake skin noodles, saying that the popular point of "pulping" is to boil syrup, in addition to adding a certain proportion of large oil to the skin surface to play a role in crispness. When there are Muslims who buy it, they exchange the large oil for butter. This kind of mooncake is characterized by crispy skin and fragrant filling, which is especially loved by the "Old Beijing" Mid-Autumn Festival.
In terms of cuisine, the august autumn crab is fat, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is the season to taste crabs, and Beijing pays special attention to tasting drunken crabs.
Fujian
Fujian people have the custom of eating duck in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is the fattest season for ducks. Fujian people use the betel nut taro produced in Fujian to roast together with duck, called betel nut taro roast duck, the taste is very good.
Betel nut taro is a potato crop, also known as Lipu taro, mainly produced in Guangxi, Fujian and other coastal areas, has a history of thousands of years. At present, Lipu County, Pingle, Gongcheng and Fujian's Minnan region in Guangxi are the main production areas.
Sichuan
In addition to eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sichuan people also have to beat rice cakes, eat hemp cakes, honey cakes, etc., and Sichuan people also eat duck during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the western Sichuan region, smoked ducks are a must-have for the Mid-Autumn Festival, because the raw ducks have grown up and are suitable for fat and thin. The master selects the baby duck of the year, after slaughtering, the feathers are faded, the intestines are removed, after washing, the wings are removed, the duck feet are removed, the salt code is salted overnight, slightly blanched in boiling water until the skin is tight, fished out to dry the water, placed in the smoker, smoked with straw until brown, baked into the brine pot, changed the knife to plate when eating, the smoked duck with golden red color, tender flesh and strong smoke is ready.
Guangdong
There are many varieties of Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival cuisine, which can be mainly divided into three categories: First, cakes, mooncakes from all over Chaoshan Province, sweet, salty, meat, shishi, and flavorful. There are also noodle cakes, soft cakes, cloud cakes are all Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, for the hipsters to send relatives of the good products, it can be said that the hipsters send moon cakes is the custom of good relatives; the second is the tide of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky is high and cool is when the fruit is ripe, grapefruit, persimmon, star fruit, pineapple, pomegranate, olive, banana, etc. are also another type of food of the hipster Mid-Autumn Festival; the third is the agricultural taro, pumpkin, the tide people use it to make taro paste, melon pulp is also the hipster people like. Taro, rice dumplings, etc. are also what hipsters must eat in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Taiwan
Kaohsiung County has a strong trend of raising water ducks. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the water ducks are at their tenderest in their infancy, the Hakka people in the Mino area often slaughter the water duck gongjia vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a feature of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan, there is also a food called "vegetable cakes". The cake is made with flour and brown sugar in the middle. In the Tainan region, there is a custom of eating mochi during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Text: Judy
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