What are the customs and activities of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi —— What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi in 2022?

Introduction: Guangxi belongs to the south, so they usually celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14. Although it is also celebrated on July 15, people still celebrate and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 14. So, what are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi in 2022? What are the customs and activities of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi? If you want to know, let's take a look at Bian Xiao's introduction.

What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi?

1, ancestor worship

Before July 13th of the lunar calendar, every household should do a general cleaning, pay attention to words and deeds, and prepare offerings. One is to show respect for ancestors, and the other is to show the housekeeping skills of future generations. On the eighth day of July, "receiving ancestors" began, and ancestors should be taken home before July 12, and incense should be served for three meals a day; On July/0/4 and/0/5, the whole family stopped all farming, offered rich sacrifices and held sacrificial ceremonies and dinners.

Step 2 splash rice

Every household in Guangxi knows the habit of throwing water at wild ghosts on the evening of July 14th. That is, every household burns some incense and paper money at the door at night, and sprinkles some water and rice when burning paper money. So don't be afraid to see Eminem burning incense and paper money on Nanning Road these days ~

3. Put grapefruit lights to worship the river god

On July 14 and 15 of the lunar calendar, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to river gods (putting grapefruit lights into the river at night), and the ceremony lasts about 2-3 hours. In order to worship the river god, people made a beautifully decorated hut with wooden boards, which was two meters long, more than one meter wide and one meter high. Insert candles and things like that in a small paper house. The activity of lighting grapefruit lanterns will not be over until it is held for two consecutive nights. This folk activity has never stopped for thousands of years.

Step 4 eat ducks

Nowadays, duck has become an indispensable dish on the Mid-Autumn Festival table of Nanning citizens. At this time of year, the whole Nanning "duck market" is in a hurry. Those who want to buy ducks should hurry up, and restaurants that eat ducks can also start booking!

5, burning bags

In addition, there is a custom of "burning steamed stuffed buns", which is generally to worship ancestors first and then burn clothes for ghosts. Food and wine for ancestor worship must be put in a flat basket, which means that wild ghosts are not allowed to rob them. "In July and a half, ghosts are running around." In addition to worshipping ancestors at home and in ancestral temples, most people in Guangxi have to go outside to worship ghosts, write the names of their ancestors on the sacrifices to worship ancestors, and attach the words "GREAT GHOST boy, with the same surname, don't (don't) rob" to prepare some Mingbi to burn to ghosts.

6. Entertain guests for three consecutive days.

In Laibin, Baise and other places in Guangxi, apart from the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the biggest festivals. Besides offering sacrifices, people also regard Mid-Autumn Festival as a good day to entertain guests and get together with their families. In order to make guests eat more happily, many people will start grinding flour to make cakes, steaming buns and making sesame candy about a week in advance. In Guangxi, Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is a custom, and some families will entertain relatives and friends for three days in a row. The more people entertain and the more lively their families are, the happier and more proud people will be.

What are the customs and activities of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi?

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival in China-Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a festival for Han people to worship their ancestors, but it was later integrated with minority cultures, and some ethnic minorities, including Zhuang people, also worshipped their ancestors on this day.

In Guangxi, the Mid-Autumn Festival is generally one day earlier, that is, the 14th day of the seventh lunar month, which is also called "July 30" and "July Festival". Legend has it that in the past, Guangxi people also celebrated festivals on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. At the end of the Song Dynasty, there was a war in the south, and the people of Guangxi were preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival. When they heard that the Yuan army had attacked Lingnan on a large scale, they had to mention celebrating the festival the day before to avoid war. It has continued since then.

Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival in Guangxi. On this day, many units will "humanize" to get off work a few hours early and let employees go home for the New Year. Among Zhuang families in many places, including Nanning, Mid-Autumn Festival is a major festival after Spring Festival. No matter what the family circumstances, we should cut the meat and slaughter the ducks and solemnly worship our ancestors.

According to the folklore of Zhuang nationality, the soul will go to heaven after death, and God will take care of it; Only on the seventh to fifteenth day of July can we go back to visit our relatives for a holiday. Therefore, every year on the seventh day of July, after the girls have finished the Begging for Clevership Festival, every family is busy preparing for the activities of worshipping their ancestors.

The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival varies from place to place. The most common ones are: Before the 13th day of the seventh lunar month, every household should do a general cleaning, pay attention to words and deeds, and prepare offerings. One is to show respect for ancestors, and the other is to show the housekeeping skills of future generations; On the eighth day of July, "receiving ancestors" began, and ancestors should be taken home before July 12, and incense should be served for three meals a day; On July 14 and 15 (from July 13 to 16 in some places), the whole family stopped all farming, arranged rich sacrifices, held sacrificial ceremonies and had dinner. July 14, the first time to worship, I often get up in the middle of the night, and the whole family begins to eat dinner at dawn. July 15 is a "farewell day", and all paper sacrifices will be burned that night to show that they can be taken home for ancestors to enjoy. On July 16, the daughter who went to visit relatives and got married wanted to drag her back to her parents' house. Therefore, some folklorists call the Mid-Autumn Festival of Zhuang nationality "Reunion Festival", also known as "Sister Festival".

Mid-Autumn Festival is still the same. However, people no longer believe in ghosts and gods, but only express their memory of the deceased through sacrifices. Most of them seek family reunion, while * * * wants family harmony and national unity. Grandma Liu, who is taking out paper shoes and other sacrifices, told reporters that she bought some sacrifices and burned them on the Mid-Autumn Festival to express her thoughts for her loved ones and pray for the health and safety of her family. Families can also have a family reunion dinner during the holidays, which is very rare in normal times.

The Mid-Autumn Festival emphasizes "filial piety"

Many people don't know that "Mid-Autumn Festival" is actually the name of Taoism in China, and Buddhism calls it "Orchid Festival". According to legend, the disciple of Sakyamuni, Mu Lian Zun, lost his parents and missed his mother very much before he attained the Tao. After making a positive result, he saw the hell with his eyes and found that his mother had fallen into the hungry ghost road, and the food entrance turned into a raging fire, which was terrible. Under the instruction of Master Sakyamuni, the venerable Sakyamuni went through hardships, called monks and nuns, held a grand event on July 15, and finally freed his mother from suffering. It happened that the official forgiveness day of Yuan Zaju, a local religion in China, was also on this day, so the story of Yulan Society was integrated with Yuan Zaju, adding many elements of China, such as filial piety of Confucianism, forming a traditional folk festival in China-Yuan Zaju.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Filial Piety Day, is a story of filial piety because Buddhism saves mothers. Coincidentally, Shun Di, the leader of the Mid-Autumn Festival, is also a filial son, and Confucianism has always paid attention to filial piety, so it has a strong color of filial piety. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, July 15 has been borrowed by some places and families as a festival for collective sacrifice to martyrs and people who are loyal, filial and virtuous. In other words, in the history of China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a day to offer sacrifices to people who are loyal to the country and local areas. The people who are loyal to filial piety here not only refer to those who are loyal to filial piety in the category of family ethics, but also include those who have made outstanding contributions to the political, economic, cultural development and local security of the state, collective and local governments.

From this perspective, as a traditional festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is undoubtedly of positive significance. Now, the folk Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually eliminated superstition and retained the form of memorial as a memory and commemoration of ancestors.

Why do you want to eat duck on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Nowadays, duck has become an indispensable dish on the Mid-Autumn Festival table of Nanning citizens. Then, why do you eat ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Aunt Huang's hometown is in Nanshepo, Li Ling Town, which is a typical strong family. Working in Nanning, she asked her boss for leave in advance and went back a few days in advance to prepare holiday supplies and sacrifices for her ancestors. She told reporters that the grandeur of the Mid-Autumn Festival in their hometown is second only to the Spring Festival. After the family got together, lit incense sticks and presented their ancestors with duck, rice, fruit and other foods, the family sat together and enjoyed family happiness. At the dinner table, a duck and a piece of meat are essential. According to the old man of Aunt Huang's family, ducks carry paper money and clothes when they worship their ancestors, so they must eat ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Superstition is certainly not credible. Folk history experts believe that the reason why ducks are eaten in the Mid-Autumn Festival is because before rice is planted in rural areas of Guangxi, every household will buy some ducks to raise them. After cutting rice, they usually put ducks in rice fields and let them eat millet and earthworms in the fields. When planting late rice, farmers began to kill ducks for the festival in order to reward themselves. As time goes on, people are used to eating ducks on this day.

It is also said that the Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the duck season, so it is just used as a sacrifice. Most of Guangxi is a water town with many ducks. In the past, people began to raise ducks in spring, that is, in March and April, and ducks grew up four or five months later, that is, in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because ancient people lived in poverty and were only willing to kill ducks on festivals, every household killed ducks on Mid-Autumn Festival. Over time, a tradition has been formed.