In ancient times, how did the ancients celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in ancient times and has been followed ever since. Purdue in Mid-Autumn Festival is the most important way to celebrate the festival now.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the early Song Dynasty, like the Lantern Festival, was decorated with lanterns to show the prosperity of the festival. This custom was abolished after Song Taizong ascended the throne. In the Southern Song Dynasty, a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, shops in the market began to sell paper shoes and boots, headscarves and hats, and colorful clothes for people to burn for the dead. When people enjoy the sacrifice, they use mulberry leaves to line the table top and tie millet seeds, hemp seeds and millet seeds at the foot of the table, which means to tell their ancestors with the harvest.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the early Song Dynasty, like the Lantern Festival, was decorated with lanterns to show the prosperity of the festival. This custom was abolished after Song Taizong ascended the throne. In the Southern Song Dynasty, a few days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, shops in the market began to sell paper shoes and boots, headscarves and hats, and colorful clothes for people to burn for the dead. When people enjoy the sacrifice, they use mulberry leaves to line the table top and tie millet seeds, hemp seeds and millet seeds at the foot of the table, which means to tell their ancestors with the harvest.

So we will meet here and have a good meal. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the butcher shop will go on strike for one day, and most people are vegetarian. At dawn the next day, there were vendors selling rice door to door, which also marked the completion of the worship ceremony of the Mid-Yuan Festival.

Liang Kejia, the former prime minister of Xiaozong period in the Southern Song Dynasty, recorded some Mid-Autumn Festival customs in his hometown of Fujian in his book "Three Mountains in Xichun".

In the Northern Song Dynasty, people liked to visit Shenguang Temple on the Mid-Yuan Festival, which became a common practice. This temple is as bustling as a market. At that time, Wang Kui, the prefect, wrote a poem entitled "Baizhang Small Building in the Mid-Yuan Dynasty" to record the grand occasion: "Xuelaofeng is closer to the west in the south, and the small building is lofty and harmonious. Zhongshan wine is ripe in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I am drunk from him. " In the Southern Song Dynasty, people found it meaningless, so they abolished this custom.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Fujian was still very grand. Every family had to prepare paper money for burial clothes, write down the names of their ancestors, and then burn them to worship. If married women sacrifice to their deceased parents, they should burn gauze on paper clothes and paper money to show the difference, which is called "gauze box".

In Putian area, people prepare offerings in the early morning of July 15, and then the whole family dresses up neatly and goes out to bow in the air, which means to invite the deceased of their ancestors into their homes. After the sacrifice, he respectfully sent the deceased out of the house. In the evening, we prepared vegetarian dishes, wonton and paper money, and asked the wizard to set a fire in the market for the wild ghosts who didn't sacrifice. Because of the high cost, some poor families have no contact with each other, and sometimes they have to postpone this annual sacrifice ceremony until August and September.