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Mid-Autumn Festival Handbook

Ancient Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival feast customs, the court is the most refined and elegant. Such as the Ming Dynasty court fashionable to eat crabs. After the crab steamed in a bag, the crowd sat around and tasted, accompanied by wine and vinegar. After eating, drink Su Ye soup, and wash their hands with. Banquet table area around, full of flowers, pomegranates and other seasonal food, the performance of the Mid-Autumn Festival mythological opera. Qing Palace in a courtyard to the east to put a screen, screen on both sides of the shelves of the cockles of the flowers, beans technology, taro, peanuts, radish, fresh lotus root. Screen set up a table in front of the Eight Immortals, on the top of a large moon cake, surrounded by pastries and fruits. Offerings completed, according to the Royal population will be cut into several pieces of moon cakes, each person symbolically taste a mouthful, called "eating reunion cake". Qing dynasty moon cake of the big, unimaginable. Like the last emperor rewarded the minister in charge of internal affairs of a moon cake, is "diameter about two feet Xu, weighing about 20 pounds.

Guangdong Chaoshan, the custom of mid-autumn moon worship, mainly women and children, there are "men do not full moon, women do not sacrifice the stove" of the proverb. There is also the local custom of eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chaoshan has a proverb: "river and stream to the mouth, taro child food to". In August, it is the taro harvest, farmers are accustomed to taro to worship ancestors. Burning pagodas on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival is also very popular in some places.

Wu Gang ascended to the Moon Palace to fold the laurel, according to the Tang Dynasty novel "Youyang Miscellany Chopper", because of the West He people Wu Gang cultivation of immortality made a mistake, so he was punished to cut down the laurel tree in the moon. This laurel tree grows as it is cut down, and it can never be cut down.? Li Bai wrote in his poem "Gift to Cui Situ Wen Kunji", "I want to cut down the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for those who are cold."

Sichuan people over the Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to eating mooncakes, but also to beat the poi, kill ducks, eat hemp cake, honey cake and so on. Some places also light orange lanterns and hang them at the door to celebrate. There are also children in the pomelo full of incense, dancing along the street, called "dance meteor incense ball". Jiading County, the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifices to the land god, play miscellaneous plays, vocal music, cultural relics, known as the "look at the meeting".

Jiangxi Province, Ji'an County, in the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, each village with straw burn pots. When the pots burn red, then put vinegar in. At this time there will be a fragrance wafting all over the village. In Xincheng County, when the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated, the straw lamps are hung since August 11th night until August 17th. Wuyuan Mid-Autumn Festival, children to brick pile a hollow pagoda. The tower hangs to the tent plaque and other decorations, and sets a table in front of the tower, furnishes all kinds of to honor "the tower god" the apparatus. At night, inside and outside are lit with lights and candles. Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival Children's Mid-Autumn Cannon. The Mid-Autumn Cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked in wet and then picked up to the stone to strike, making a loud noise and the custom of swimming fire dragon. The fire dragon is a dragon made of straw with incense sticks stuck in its body. When the fire dragon swims, there are gongs and drums with the same team, and then sent to the river after traveling through the villages.