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Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, eat moon cakes

Moon cakes, also called moon dumplings, harvest cakes, palace cakes and reunion cakes, are offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, use them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends. Today, eating moon cakes has become an essential custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. On this day, people eat moon cakes to show "reunion".

Step 2 enjoy the moon

The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. It is said that this night the moon is closest to the earth, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there has been a custom of drinking and enjoying the moon since ancient times; The daughter-in-law who goes back to her parents' house will go back and forth to express her happiness and good luck.

3. Sacrifice the moon

Sacrificing the moon is a very old custom in China, and it is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk".

In Yue Bai, a big incense table was set up, and the sacrifices included moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes. Under the moon, put the "Luna God" tablet in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family took turns in Yue Bai to pray.

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Taboo of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, Mid-Autumn Festival, it is not recommended for people who are very weak to enjoy the moon in the wild, Yue Bai. Especially for women who have recently miscarried or just given birth, don't look at the moon, even on their balcony.

2. If the fortune is relatively low recently, people are in a bad mood and frustrated, for example, the officialdom is frustrated, the love is not smooth, the work is not smooth, the family is not good, the exam fails, and the business loses money, it is best not to look at the moon.

3. If a girl has bangs, it is best to stroke the hair on her forehead to the back or sides, and never let her forehead be covered by hair, because this is where your magic lamp is.

When the moon is high in Mid-Autumn Festival, people will set up an altar to burn incense, display moon cakes and fruits to worship the moon. Many families will burn moonlight paper, put down food for the moon and give it to their families in Yue Bai on the night of the full moon.

The whole family get together to eat moon cakes. Moon cakes are also called reunion cakes, so that the whole family can work together and unite as one. Therefore, the fruit cake must be round, even if it is cut out, it must be lotus-shaped with crescent petals.

5, carry a red rope, or wrap the red rope around your wrist, pay attention to the male left and the female right.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Folk Custom