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Mid-Autumn Festival customs of the perception of 50 words.

1, Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing moon viewing and eating mooncakes is a necessary custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival across China, as the saying goes: "the 15th of August the moon is full, Mid-Autumn Mooncake fragrant and sweet". The word "mooncake" originated from Wu Zimu's "Mengliang Records" in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was only a kind of snack food at that time.

2, Mid-Autumn Festival night, looking up at the moon in the laurel, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrating the family sweet honey, has become a holiday a kind of beauty to enjoy. In modern times, people mostly take red wine instead.

3, the Mid-Autumn Festival is not as large as the Lantern Festival lanterns, play lights are mainly only in the family, between children. As early as in the Northern Song Dynasty, "Wulin Old Story", recorded in the Mid-Autumn Festival night custom, there will be 'a little red' lamp into the river to float and play activities.

4, Guangdong Chaoshan all over the Mid-Autumn Moon worship custom, mainly women and children, there are "men do not full moon, women do not sacrifice stove" proverb. There is also the custom of eating taro on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chaoshan has a proverb: "River Creek to the mouth, taro food to".