What traditional foods should we eat during the Double Ninth Festival? These 6 traditional foods are the most popular

What traditional foods are eaten on Double Ninth Festival? The Double Ninth Festival is coming soon. So what traditional food do we usually eat during this traditional festival? Next, let’s take a look together.

What traditional food do you eat during the Double Ninth Festival?

Chongyang Cake

There is a traditional custom of eating Chongyang Cake on the Double Ninth Festival. Chongyang Cake is mostly made of rice flour, fruit and other ingredients. Some Chongyang Cakes also add dates and chestnuts as fillings. Because there is a tradition of climbing high places to avoid disasters on the Double Ninth Festival, and "gao" is homophonic with "gao", which means "to rise step by step" and "to live a long life", "Double Ninth Cake" is a very popular festival food.

Chestnut Cake

In Beijing, there are two kinds of Chongyang cakes eaten on the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made with chestnut paste as the main ingredient. The cake is diamond-shaped, brown in color, glutinous, chestnut-scented and sweet. According to Menglianglu, chestnut cake already existed during the Song Dynasty.

Chrysanthemum Cake

Chrysanthemum cake is one of the famous cakes in Chaoshan. Eating chrysanthemum cake on Double Ninth Festival has a history of more than 100 years in Chaoshan. The Chaoshan specialty chrysanthemum cake is famous for its freshness, sweet fragrance, softness, crispness and no peculiar smell. Compared with ordinary cakes, chrysanthemum cake has the cool fragrance and calmness of chrysanthemum, and has a beautiful appearance. This cake is sweet, soft and crispy, melts in the mouth, and leaves a fragrant taste on the teeth and cheeks.