Traditional culture of Mid-Autumn Festival

The traditional culture of Mid-Autumn Festival includes eating moon cakes and offering sacrifices to the moon.

1, eat moon cakes:

Moon cakes, also known as moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes and reunion cakes. , is a tribute to the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion. 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".

2. Sacrifice to the moon:

Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a worship activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The evening moon is the God of Yue Bai. Since ancient times, in some places in Guangdong, people have the custom of worshipping the moon god on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. 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.

National characteristics of Mid-Autumn Festival;

1, Mongolians: Mongolians love to play the game "Chasing the Moon". People are riding horses and galloping on the grassland in the silver moonlight. They galloped west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that.

2. Tibetans: The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some parts of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "looking at the moon". That night, young men, women and dolls, along the river, followed the bright moon reflected in the water, took pictures of the moon shadows in the surrounding ponds, and then went home to eat moon cakes.

3. Deang nationality in Yunnan: Deang nationality in Yunnan "string the moon", young men and women of Deang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan. When the Mid-Autumn Festival is full and bright, melodious cucurbit silk comes from time to time, and young men and women "string the moon" together and pour out their hearts. Some also set an engagement by sending betel nuts and tea through "string month".

4. Yunnan Yi people: The traditional custom of Yunnan Yi people's Mid-Autumn Festival is "jumping on the moon". At night, men, women and children in this ethnic village gather in the open space of the mountain village. Girls wearing belts and veils, boys wearing cloth belts, old people, old women and children all sang and danced enthusiastically, especially the duet of young men and women expressing their love, as if the moon had been moved by it, which made it even more charming and bright.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival