What is the meaning of watching lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What are the fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, is a day when people usually go home to reunite with their families. Reunion is naturally inseparable from delicious meals and fruit feasts. So what fruits and recipes are there for Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival is also the season when pomegranates are on the market. Pomegranates contain nutrients such as vitamin B, vitamin C, carbohydrates, sugars, proteins, iron, phosphorus, potassium, etc. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, lanterns are hung in the streets and alleys. The whole family gathers together to light lanterns, appreciate lanterns, guess lantern riddles, etc. Lanterns not only represent the way to illuminate reunion, but also create a happy atmosphere of reunion. It is really a warm picture.

Contents of this article

1. What are the menus for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

2. What are the fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

3. What is the meaning of watching lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

What are the recipes for Mid-Autumn Festival?

The menus for the Mid-Autumn Festival include corn bone soup, cucumber salad, braised fish, white-cut chicken, fried snails, boiled shrimps, garlic spareribs, steamed hairy crabs, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, etc. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Reunion Festival, is a day when people usually go home to reunite with their families.

The ingredients needed for steaming hairy crabs include: hairy crabs, ginger slices, cooking wine, etc. They can usually be served after steaming for about 8 minutes.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival is also the time when chestnuts are on the market in large quantities. You can also make chestnut chicken soup. The ingredients include: three-yellow chicken, chestnuts, salt, cooking wine, scallion segments, ginger slices, etc.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in my country, with customs such as walking on the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon, appreciating the moon, chasing the moon, watching the tide, eating moon cakes, and drinking osmanthus wine.

What are the fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The fruits for the Mid-Autumn Festival include grapefruit, pomegranate, pear, persimmon, water chestnut, grape, fresh jujube, etc. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the season when grapefruit is on the market. Grapefruit has the effect of relieving greasiness. After eating sweet moon cakes or greasy meat, eating grapefruit can relieve the greasy feeling.

Grapefruit contains nutrients such as vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin P, pectin, folic acid, carotene, potassium, phosphorus, citric acid, etc. Regular consumption is very good for the body.

Pears are rich in vitamins, low in calories and fat, and they are high in water. They contain rich vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, etc. and are called "natural mineral water."

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the season when pomegranates are on the market. Pomegranates contain nutrients such as vitamin B, vitamin C, carbohydrates, sugars, protein, iron, phosphorus, potassium, etc.

What is the meaning of watching lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Watching lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival represents happiness and reunion. In ancient times, lanterns were mainly used for lighting. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, lanterns were hung in the streets and alleys, and the whole family gathered together to light lanterns, appreciate lanterns, guess lantern riddles, etc. Lanterns not only represent the way to illuminate reunion, but also create an atmosphere of reunion and happiness.

In some places, lanterns not only represent a happy family reunion, but because the word "lantern" contains the character "丁", lanterns are also entrusted with the good wishes of a newly married daughter-in-law having a child, implying a prosperous life and a large family.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of China's four major traditional festivals. Since ancient times, there have been folk customs such as worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and dancing fire dragons. The full moon symbolizes family reunion and expresses the hope for a happy reunion.

Lanterns are a traditional folk handicraft, made of paper or silk as the outer skin of the lantern and bamboo or wooden strips as the frame. According to the patterns and styles, they can be divided into eggshell lanterns, wood shavings lanterns, straw lanterns, fish scale lanterns, bird and animal lanterns and other types.