What are the important customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival include: walking on the moon, sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, begging for the moon to shine on the moon, observing the tide, eating mooncakes, burning incense, burning lanterns, guessing riddles, playing with rabbits, playing with lanterns, dancing with fire dragons, listening to the incense, stealing moon vegetables, burning pagoda lanterns, throwing a handkerchief to recruit a wife, stealing melons and praying for a son, drinking osmanthus wine, stealing vegetables to ask for a groom, eating snails, enjoying the osmanthus flowers, eating pomelos, and eating diamonds, and so on. Below I will pick 5 mid-autumn custom details, come and take a look.

1, eat moon cakes?

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes is a necessary custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival across China, as the saying goes: "August 15 moon is round, Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes fragrant and sweet". The word mooncake, originated from the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Record", then only a snack food. Later on, people gradually combined moonlight appreciation with mooncakes to symbolize family reunion and to send their thoughts. At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift for friends to get in touch with each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival. So far, eating mooncakes has been a necessary custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival in China's northern and southern regions, and people have to eat mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Day to show that they are "reunited".

2. Moon Festival

Moon Festival

The custom of moon festival originated from moon sacrifice, and the seriousness of the sacrifice was transformed into a light-hearted entertainment. In the early days, the moon festival was held in the fall, when people's attention was focused on the moon, and they could fully appreciate the beauty of the moon, which they were usually oblivious to. At that time, the upper class began to recognize the moon rationally, no longer pure worship, and gradually took the full moon as a beautiful natural scene to appreciate. The so-called "good time and beautiful scenery" mentality, this is so.　　

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival activities of the folk about the beginning of the Wei and Jin dynasties, but did not become a habit. To the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing, playing the moon is quite popular, many poets in the famous poem there are moon poems. To the Song Dynasty, the formation of the Mid-Autumn Folk Festival centered on moonlight viewing activities, officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

3, vertical Mid-Autumn Festival

In some places in Guangdong, the Mid-Autumn Festival has an interesting traditional customs, called "tree Mid-Autumn Festival". Tree is also vertical, that is, the meaning of the lamps and lanterns up high, so it is also called "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". Children, with the assistance of their parents, use bamboo paper to tie up rabbit lamps, popcorn lamps or square lamps, hung horizontally in a short pole, and then erected on a high pole, held high, the colorful light shines brightly for the Mid-Autumn Festival to add a scene. The children compete with each other to see who can erect the highest and most elaborate lanterns. At night, the city lights, such as stars, and the bright moon in the sky to compete, in order to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4, eat pomelo

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat pomelo, which is inextricably linked to the depth and breadth of Chinese culture. Traditional culture is keen to take the same/similar meaning in the word sound and meaning, pomelo and pomelo resonance, Mid-Autumn Festival, eating pomelo on behalf of the pomelo home reunion of the good meaning; pomelo and have a resonance, as the saying goes: "Eat pomelo at the festival, the more you eat the more you have in the coming year," so pomelo is also given the auspicious symbolism of the wealth of progress. Therefore, pomelo stands out as a popular fruit of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

5, eat rhombus

Mid-Autumn Festival to eat rhombus, it is said to make children grow up smart. And there is a certain anticancer effect, can prevent and control esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, uterine cancer and other diseases, children eat rhombus, but also against skin diseases, can assist in the treatment of pediatric head sores, head and face sores. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded, the rhombus has the efficacy of the five organs, but also recorded that it has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, health and qi. Mid-Autumn Festival most of the way to eat rhododendron is to rhododendron with water (or salt water) boiled, and then shelled as a snack to eat; can also be shelled rhododendron plus rice cooked into a savory white porridge, in the eat sweet and greasy mooncakes, drink a bowl of rhododendron porridge, stomach grease on the spot to remove a lot of.

The above is the important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival that I know, what is the custom of your hometown in the Mid-Autumn Festival this day?