What to eat during the Xiayuan Festival? Traditional food customs during the Xiayuan Festival

What to eat during the Lower Yuan Festival? When it comes to the Lower Yuan Festival, many people may not know it, but it is also one of China's traditional sacrificial festivals. Next, let’s take a look at the food customs related to the Lower Yuan Festival.

What to eat during the Lower Yuan Festival

Rice Cake

People eat glutinous rice cakes to celebrate the "Lower Yuan Festival", and relatives and neighbors will come to help when making glutinous rice cakes. Generally, the newly harvested glutinous rice is steamed, then poured into a stone mortar and pounded until it is soft. The glutinous rice paste is then taken out, made into round balls, and steamed in a steamer.

Eat fish

There is a folk saying that goes "eat rice cake in the morning and fish in the evening". In ancient times, there was an unwritten custom of eating meat during the Lower Yuan Festival. Because the Lower Yuan Festival falls on the 15th day of the 10th lunar month every year, which is usually just after the harvest season, families gather together to celebrate to thank God for his gifts.

Red Bean Paste Bun

Red bean paste buns, also known as soybean buns or bean buns, are a type of red bean paste bun food that originated from the Manchu people. On the day of the Lower Yuan Festival, there is a custom in the Manchu area to make and eat red bean paste buns. Although we can eat bean paste buns all year round, few people know that we can eat them on October 15th.