In the traditional customs of Guangxi, the Mid-Autumn Festival is indispensable to eat "ducks", but why eat ducks on this day?

Every year, people and families in Guangxi kill ducks to eat and sacrifice them to their ancestors on the Ghost Festival on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month. Every Halloween, the ducks sold in Nanning's market are basically sold out, which is very popular. Why does Guangxi Ghost Festival have the tradition and custom of killing ducks and eating ducks? Where did this custom come from …

According to legend, a long time ago, people began to raise ducks in spring, that is, in March and April. About four or five months later, it was the "Ghost Festival", which was the season when ducks grew up. Because people in ancient times lived in poverty, they were only willing to kill ducks on festivals. So every family will kill ducks to eat on Halloween. Over time, eating ducks on Halloween will become a tradition. Later, people from all over the world gave them all kinds of legends, which generally mean exorcism.

The 14th day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as Ghost Festival, is the longest festival of Zhuang ancestors in Guangxi. On this day, every household makes rice noodles, rice cakes and sugar cakes for dinner, which are used to kill ducks and sacrifice ancestors. According to legend, the dead ancestors were separated by a "Nai River" in the underworld, so it was necessary to kill ducks for sacrifice and let them cross the river with sacrifices. Therefore, in addition to offering sacrifices in the hall, they also put ducks at the door to worship, and then burned clothes and paper money cut from five colors of paper, such as black, purple, blue, yellow and white, so that ducks could take them to worship their ancestors for a year. This custom has been passed down to this day. .

I think 15 is Ghost Festival, and 14 is the day of ancestor worship. At the age of fourteen, we will kill ducks, cook a lot of dishes and then worship our ancestors. We still need to burn clothes. Every ancestor in my family made a bag, which contained clothes and shoes made of paper and all kinds of money. The names of "Grandma" and "Grandma" are written on each bag. Then burn the meaning. I also want to worship a clothes picker who is responsible for carrying the burnt clothes back to my ancestors with a pole. Just a messenger role.

Then on the fifteenth day, we will make some small shoes. We call it wooden shoes and make dozens of pairs. Then every family will buy tofu and water spinach. At night, we will walk to the nearest road. Burn incense, put rice, tofu and spinach to worship, and finally burn wooden shoes. It is said that many ghosts are wandering in the street tonight. In order to keep them out of their homes, they are given food, drinks and shoes. Give them the power to return to the underworld. Finally, I left the food on the side of the road and returned the bowl the next day. But now they all take disposable bowls.