What are the traditional games or activities for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, walk the moon

Mid-Autumn Festival night there is a big feature of the moon activities called "walk the moon". Under the bright moonlight, people dressed in fine clothes, three or five companions, or swim in the street market, or lack of boat Qinhuai River, or climbed to watch the moonlight, talk and laugh. Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, built in the moon tower, play the moon bridge, the Qing Dynasty, under the Lion Rock, there is the moon building, are travelers "walk the moon" when the moon viewing resort; and after the liberation of the Mochou Lake Park built by holding the moon building, has become a new attraction for the public to enjoy the moon.

2, play lanterns

Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many game activities, the first is to play lanterns. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China, and it is important to play with lanterns during the festival. Of course, there is no large-scale lantern festival like the Lantern Festival in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly only carried out among families and children.

3, pot throwing

Originated from the shooting ceremony, the most prevalent during the Warring States period. The rules of the game: the pot represents the arrow target and the chopsticks represent the arrows, which are played while eating and drinking, and the winner is the one who shoots.

4, playing patty cake

Boiled glutinous rice, placed in a stone trough, hammered with a wooden stick until it becomes a "gel", and eaten with sugar or soybean powder, a unique flavor.

5, Bocai

and modern shaking dice similar, but the lottery is the moon cake, according to legend, Zheng Chenggong to inspire the morale of generals and soldiers in combat and the establishment of the game.

6, burning lamps

Mid-Autumn Festival night, there is the custom of burning lamps to help the moon. Nowadays, the area around Hunan and Guangdong still have tile stacked tower in the tower. On the lamp burning custom. Jiangnan area has a system of light boat custom. In recent times, the custom of burning lamps in the Mid-Autumn Festival is more prevalent.

The Mid-Autumn Lantern candle burning rope tied to a bamboo pole. On, high up in the tile eaves or terrace, or with small lamps built into the word or various shapes, hanging in the house high, commonly known as 'tree mid-autumn' or 'vertical mid-autumn'. The lights hanging in the rich and noble families, can be several feet high, the family gathered under the lights to drink for fun, the ordinary people are erected a flagpole, two lanterns, but also to take their own fun.

7, burning tower

South widely circulated burning tile lights (or burning flower tower, burning tower, burning tower, burning tower) of the game. Such as "Chinese national customs" Volume V: Jiangxi Mid-Autumn Festival night, the general children in the field to pick up the tile, piled into a round tower shape, there are many holes. At dusk under the bright moon in the firewood tower burned. Once the tile burns red, and then splashed with kerosene, oil on fire, all of a sudden the four fields red, shining like day. Until the end of the night, no one to watch, and then splash rest, is the name of the burning tile lights.

Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, the burning tile tower, also made of brick and tile hollow tower, filled with twigs burning fire. At the same time also burning smoke pile, that is, the grass and firewood piled into a pile, burned at the end of the moon worship. Fujian Jinjiang also have "burning tower child" activities.