Anhui Mid-Autumn Festival customs know how much?

Every year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is China's Mid-Autumn Festival, talking about the Mid-Autumn Festival customs, people first think of is to eat mooncakes, but in fact in all parts of our country, in addition to eating mooncakes in addition to a number of local characteristics of the Mid-Autumn Festival customs. So today's old calendar will introduce you to, Anhui Mid-Autumn Festival customs.

Everywhere eat mooncake Anhui Mid-Autumn Festival are eating mooncakes, and almost all in the evening after the moon god to eat, the only exception is the Huoning people, generally eat in the morning. The people of Tianchang, after honoring the moon, share the mooncakes, and if someone is out, they leave a copy or send it to them. The people of Eddanyang share mooncakes and beans after burning incense to honor the moon.

Jianghuai region: moon worship and moon festivalJianghuai moon festival custom is generally the first moon festival and then enjoy the moon. The moon festival is also known as moon worship. Most of the incense and offering tables are placed in the courtyard, or located in the courtyard by the fence, patio side. Offerings placed on the table have more or less, but generally have moon cakes and fruit, such as pomegranates, persimmons, pears, apples, fresh lotus root, chestnuts, dates and so on. The amount of fruit placed, depending on the geographical environment, production conditions vary.

In addition to moon cakes and fruits, some places have added special tribute, such as Huining, Shexian city and countryside on a large pumpkin; Changfeng put a large bun; Liu'an for tea; Mengcheng for charcoal buns; Tianchang for chicken pods, hairy pods, and Chang'e elephant in the Moon Palace and so on.

When the moon festival, solid town, five rivers is the moon out of the cannon to worship; Chaohu City is the moon out of the cannon dyeing incense to worship the moon; Huoning Mengcheng is Ran group burning incense kowtow; Tunxi is to point on the red candle, the whole family kneeling. Liuan, Tongling, Shouxian, Fengtai, Changfeng, etc. is burning incense to worship the moon.

Sacrificed the moon god, only really began to enjoy the moon. People appreciate the mirror-like moon while tasting the offerings, as is the case in Huiyang, Lu'an, Tongling, Dongzhi, Xiuning, Tunxi, Chaohu, Tianchang, Hefei, and so on. Tunxi people in the family to enjoy the moon often sit around a place, one side to eat moon cakes, fruits, etc., one side to tell the "Chang'e to the moon," "Wu Gang Falcon Gui," "Tang Ming Huang tour of the Moon Palace" and other myths, and so on. When the moon passes the center of the sky, only to go back to bed.

Huizhou area: dance grass dragon in Huizhou and other places have mid-autumn play grass dragon custom. Straw dragons are dragons made of straw. Yixian County, also known as the "dance of the straw dragon" that is, with straw tied into a dragon head, and straw bundled into a bunch of bundles, connected to the dragon body, and then a section of thick to thin straw bundles for the dragon's tail, each section of the rope tied, each person's hand, a section of the drums and gongs, up and down the roll, to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival.

Xiuning is called "dance incense dragon", which is made of straw, incense around the body, the length of the number of people depending on the dance dragon, every seven or eight feet support a stick, the dragon body full of lit gimlet incense. Fragrant dragon dancing along the streets, followed by various lanterns, gongs and drums, accompanied by firecrackers. Fragrant dragon wherever they go, each household are inserted a cone of incense and firecrackers, said welcome to cheer. When the incense goes out at midnight, the dragon is sent down to the water (the body of the dragon is thrown into the river), which is meant to symbolize a good harvest.

Tunxi is hanging a red lamp on the dragon's head, the dragon body inserted with "gomer incense", the dragon dancers are mostly children in the village, the dance to the door of people's homes, the mouth to sing a section of auspicious words, such as "incense dragon to your home to dance, in the next year, to get a good daughter-in-law" and so on, in order to win people's happiness. and so on, in order to win people's hearts and hospitality.

Northern Anhui region: Torch Festival in Fuyang region in northern Anhui Province, the local people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to eating moon cakes and other customs, the most distinctive folklore is the Torch Festival. Speaking of the origin of the torch festival, can not be mentioned more than 600 years ago at the end of the Yuan farmers Liu Futong led the Red Turbans uprising, because Liu Futong is the people of Fuyang, Anhui Province, where he initiated the peasant revolt left a good story to the local community, but also left a festival folklore.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, the children imitated the Red Turbans, with wheat straw, straw tied into three or four feet long handle, inside the real straw, to the field lit, shaking to shake, seems to be a signal, the local customary called "put the torch". This custom is still long and unfailing.

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