"Chaoshan Folk Custom" Mid-Autumn Festival "Worship the Moon Mother" and "Burning Ant Kiln" are laughing and drinking kung fu tea and eating moon cakes in front of the court.

Moon worship originated from primitive people's worship of the moon in ancient times. Later, the story of Chang 'e was told by the people, and the moon was personified as a celestial body, so it was called "Yuegu" or "Yueniang". Yue Bai's mother is mainly women and children, and most adult men don't worship, so there is a saying that "men don't worship Yue Bai and women don't worship stoves"!

These days, moon cake shops, fruit shops and paper money shops are crowded and lively, and there is a strong Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere everywhere. I think my mother has bought a lot of food and supplies for the festival.

Chaoshan people have the traditional habit of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival. On the full moon night of Mid-Autumn Festival, they set up an incense table in front of their house or on the balcony, and put on various offerings from "Yue Bai people". Sacrifices generally include: moon cakes, tea, pastry jiaozi, cakes and various fruits. Fruits include: grapefruit, orange, pomegranate, grape, apple, persimmon, olive and carambola. (All my favorite foods)

And taro. Legend has it that in order not to forget the suffering of Hu people's rule, people take taro as the homonym of "Hu tou". "Taro" looks like a head to worship ancestors, which has been passed down from generation to generation and still exists today!

There are various forms of paper money tributes, including the big gold ingot, the "table curtain" printed with the pattern of crossing the sea by the Eight Immortals, the "tribute" like a bucket, and the flower basket made of lotus, pineapple and Xiantao.

After dinner, the full moon lifted off and began to worship. Pray for Mother Taiyin of the Heavenly Palace to protect the safety and health of her family. "Moon worships mother" is a Chaoshan dialect. Because the moon is cloudy, we are commonly called "Taiyin mother".

When I was a child, I was most looking forward to Yue Bai. I have to prepare many beautiful notes, ballpoint pens and a new schoolbag. I hope I can study hard and have no troubles when I use these!

It is a custom in Chaozhou to burn clay kilns (namely ant kilns) on Mid-Autumn Festival night. Burning tile kiln has two meanings: one is to commemorate the signal that hipsters set off fireworks to kill Yuan Bing; Second, because Chaozhou tile is homophonic with "ant", burning tile tower is pronounced as "ant" burning tower, and ants are burned to death. As we all know, burning the tower in the Mid-Autumn Festival will burn the ants in every household to death, and there will be no ants or reduce the harm of ants in the coming year.

When burning a fire, sprinkle some sulfur powder on the "ant kiln" to make the flame light blue, which is especially beautiful, or sprinkle a lot of salt to make the flame more prosperous and make a pleasant sound, just like the sound of burning termites, which means burning termites.

After worshipping the Moon Mother, the family laughed in front of the court, ate moon cakes, drank kung fu tea, set off fireworks and lanterns, played chess and played solve riddles on the lanterns ... How delightful!

In Chaoshan language, "Kung Fu" means doing things fastidiously and meticulously. The "Kung Fu Tea" that Chaoshan people drink is to work hard in the process of making tea.

To make a good pot of kungfu tea, there are eight steps, namely, treating the organ, taking the tea, waiting for the soup, making tea, hanging foam, pouring the pot, scalding the cup and pouring the tea. In addition to the extreme attention to making kungfu tea, tea tasting is also a kind of learning. "One bowl moistens the throat, two bowls are lonely."

Moon cakes are one of the traditional Chinese cakes. It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, was popular in the court of the Northern Song Dynasty, and then spread among the people. China's five moon cakes: Cantonese moon cakes, Chaozhou moon cakes, Beijing moon cakes, Suzhou moon cakes and Yunnan moon cakes are deeply loved by people!

Chaozhou moon cake is also called Chaozhou fork sesame seed cake, and the cross word refers to lard in Chaoshan dialect. The cake baked with lard mixed with flour, as the sweet stuffing of leather bag, is the fork sesame seed cake. Cake is suitable all year round, and Mid-Autumn Festival is the most suitable time. Chaozhou-style moon cakes are crispy and fine, oily but not greasy, sweet but not greasy, and soft in taste. There are green bean paste, black bean paste and purple taro paste in the stuffing.

Drink kungfu tea, eat moon cakes, enjoy the fifteenth day of the moon, and have a happy family reunion.

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