Why do you eat ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

In western Sichuan, smoked duck is a must for Mid-Autumn Festival, because the raw ducks at that time have grown up and are fat and thin. The master selects the ducklings born in that year, butchers them, removes their feathers, opens their chests, washes them, removes the wing tips and duck feet, marinates them with salt for one night, scalds them with boiling water until their skins are tight, takes them out, puts them in a smoking stove, smokes them with straw until they are brown, takes them out of the oven, marinates them in a pot, and changes the knife into a dish when eating, thus obtaining the smoked duck with golden color, tender meat and strong smoke smell. The preparation of brine is an important link in making smoked duck. When using old brine, add spices, salt, sugar and brine in time every time. (When making, the duck is pressed into the brine with a heavy object, and the marinating time is generally about 20 minutes. If the time is too long, the duck will get old, which will affect the quality and taste.

Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, so they must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be listed in Gui Xiang. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp on it. Beauty speaks for itself. "Guijiang" was named after Qu Yuan's "Helping the North to close its doors and drink Guijiang" in Chu Ci Shao Si Ming. Cinnamon pulp is a kind of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Jiangnan women are handy, turning the chanting in poetry into delicacies on the table. People in Nanjing enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", the group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".

Mulao people in Yunnan, China will buy cakes to kill ducks on August 15 to celebrate this traditional festival.

Legend has it that once upon a time, the Mulao people lived in a place with beautiful scenery and four seasons like spring. Six animals in each village are thriving, and the grain harvest is abundant every year. But one year, a "ghost guy" suddenly came, killing and setting fires everywhere, robbing and adultery, which made that guy restless day and night. In the village, there is a candy seller and his son, who are determined to take the lead in resistance. They thought of a plan: selling sugar in the village to contact the villagers and killing ghosts together on the night of August 15. Sure enough, most of the "ghosts" were killed, and some even jumped into the river and became ducks. Mulao brought ducks back to the village and killed them as delicious food to celebrate the victory. Since then, in order to commemorate these three sugar sellers, every household will buy cakes to kill ducks on August 15 every year, so as to educate future generations not to forget the struggle against aggression.

Fujian people have the custom of eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is the fattest season for ducks. Fujian people cook betel nut taro with ducks, which is rich in Fujian, and it is called betel nut taro roast duck. It tastes very good.

Kaohsiung County, Taiwan Province Province has a strong culture of raising water ducks. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most tender time for water ducks. Hakkas in Meinong area often slaughter water ducks and add vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a major feature of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan will also eat a kind of food called "vegetable cakes". Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle. In Tainan, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of eating potatoes. In recent years, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province has developed a new activity-barbecue. In addition, a food company in Taiwan Province Province introduced a new concept of Mid-Autumn Snow Moon Cake according to the different demands of consumption level and the lingering summer heat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What is snow moon cake? Ice cream moon cakes are ice cream moon cakes, which are cool and smooth in taste. There are three kinds of fillings-champagne sweetheart, Hawaiian party and Viennese coffee. This moon cake is also beautifully packaged in full Japanese style, and the Baolilong packaging box with thermal insulation function ensures that the ice cream will not melt in a certain period of time.