Dishes with special meanings during the Double Ninth Festival: stir-fried spinach with rice cakes and braised mutton.

1. Rice cake and fried spinach

New year cake has the meaning of being prosperous every year. Eating rice cake and fried spinach on the Double Ninth Festival means blessing the elderly with good health and long life. Ingredients: rice cake, pork, spinach, cooking oil, salt, chives, ginger, cooking wine, starch.

Method: Wash and cut the pork, put it in a bowl, add salt and starch, mix well, and marinate for a while. Pick and wash the spinach, blanch it in water, drain it and set aside. Cut the rice cake into thin slices and set aside.

Add cooking oil to the pot, add the pork when the oil is hot, stir-fry until it changes color, add onions, ginger, and cooking wine to stir-fry until fragrant, then add the rice cake and stir-fry evenly. Then add water, bring to a boil over high heat, add spinach and stir-fry evenly, then add salt to taste and serve.

2. Braised mutton

On the Double Ninth Festival, the old man said that he should eat some food related to "Yang" to cope with the occasion. Braised mutton is not only delicious, but also means gratitude to parents. . Because people often use "the lamb kneels down to breast" to tell us to be grateful and filial to the elderly. Ingredients: mutton, cooking oil, salt, chives, ginger, cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaves, sugar.

Method: Wash and cut the mutton into pieces, add scallion knots, ginger slices, cooking wine and water. Bring to a boil over high heat, remove and rinse with clean water to control the moisture. Add cooking oil to the pot, add sugar and stir-fry until the color becomes brown, then add mutton to color.

Then add cooking wine, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, star anise, cinnamon bark, bay leaves, water and bring to a boil over high heat, then turn to low heat and simmer until the mutton is tender. Once the mutton can be inserted easily with chopsticks, add sugar to freshen it up and collect the juice. When the soup is not long, add green onions and stir-fry evenly before serving.

Customs of various places during the Double Ninth Festival

1. Hubei: wine making.

Wuchang County makes wine on the Double Ninth Festival. It is said that the wine brewed at this time is the clearest and will not spoil after being stored for a long time. The Double Ninth Festival in Yingcheng County is a day to fulfill vows. On this day, everyone worships the god of Fangshe Tianzu.

2. Jiangsu: Eat camel hooves.

On the Double Ninth Festival, Nanjing people cut five-color paper into a bevel shape, connect them into flags, and place them in the courtyard. Cheung Chau County eats a kind of pasta called "Camel's Hoof". In Wuxi County, people eat Double Ninth Cake and Jiupin Soup.

3. Fujian: Edamame Festival.

Farmers in Changting County collect soybeans from their fields and give them as gifts, which is called the Soybean Festival. Flying kites on the Double Ninth Festival in Haicheng County is a show called "Fengcha".

4. Shanxi: Climb high.

In the Jinnan area of ??Shanxi Province, there is a custom of climbing on September 9th. Enjoy great views of the great rivers and mountains, and admire the scenic spots and historic sites. To this day, famous sayings such as "The world is open to victory, and our generations will climb high together" and "September welcomes the new moon, and agriculture, agriculture and agriculture celebrate autumn" are still recited among the people.