What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival include appreciating osmanthus, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, offering sacrifices to the moon and burning lanterns.

1, Osmanthus fragrans: Mid-Autumn Festival, when Osmanthus fragrans is fragrant, Osmanthus fragrans has been associated with the moon in ancient times, and many fairy tales have also been derived. As a precious variety, osmanthus fragrans also has a symbol of happiness and auspiciousness. Enjoy the sweet-scented osmanthus in the Mid-Autumn Festival, smell the refreshing fragrance and feel the different taste, thus expressing the pursuit of a better life.

2. Appreciating the Moon: On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is one of the essential activities for the whole family to sit together and enjoy the beautiful moon in the sky. Many ancient poets and writers also invited friends to enjoy the moon, drink wine and write poems, leaving many famous sentences.

3. Eating moon cakes: Moon cakes are an indispensable custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China, which means family reunion and missing. At the same time, moon cakes are also an important gift for friends to contact their feelings during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Sacrifice to the Moon: On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is necessary to worship the Moon God and set up incense tables to offer sacrifices such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes. Among them, moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable, and watermelons should be cut into lotus shapes. It's important to take turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cuts moon cakes according to the population of the family.

5. Lighting: The candles burned in the Mid-Autumn Night Lantern are tied to bamboo poles with ropes, hung high on tile eaves or terraces, or made into glyphs or various shapes with small lights and hung at the height of the house, commonly known as the Mid-Autumn Festival on the tree or the Mid-Autumn Festival vertically.

Rich people can hang lights as high as tens of feet. Families gather under the lamp to enjoy drinking, and ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and glass. It seems that since ancient times, the custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.