What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, eat moon cakes

Moon cakes have "lotus leaf", "golden flower", "hibiscus" and other elegant name. Symbolizing reunion, people take it as a holiday food, use it to offer the moon, gifts to friends and relatives.

2, the tide

In ancient times, around Zhejiang, the tide can be said to be another Mid-Autumn Festival event.

3, lighting

Lighting to help the moon, Mid-Autumn Festival night, light candles, tied to bamboo poles, tile eaves, terraces, and other high places, commonly known as "tree Mid-Autumn Festival".

4, enjoy the moon

This is the ancients with a good thing, the rich more colorful building, good swimmers or climbed in the mountains, or pan in the water, and must be prepared for the nuclear food and wine syrup, the literati poems, the commoners speak of ancient times, often all night long.

5, eat osmanthus duck

Nanjing people love to eat mooncakes during Mid-Autumn Festival, must eat Jinling famous dish osmanthus duck. "Cinnamon duck" in the cinnamon fragrance when the market, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor. After drinking, we must eat a small sweet taro, poured with osmanthus syrup, the beauty of it goes without saying. The name "osmanthus syrup" is taken from Qu Yuan's "Chu Rhetoric - Shao Shi Ming", "Aid the North closed and drink osmanthus syrup". Osmanthus syrup, a sugar osmanthus, is picked around mid-autumn and pickled with sugar and sour plums. The women of Jiangnan are so skillful that they transformed the aphorisms in the poem into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon as a family, called "reunion", the group sat down to drink called "full moon", out of the market called "walking moon".