Jiangyin Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival

The 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jiangyin Mid-Autumn Festival morning has the habit of eating sugar taro, some in the taro rolled on a few glutinous rice dumplings, eating sweet and sticky, family reunion. In addition to sugar taro, Zhouzhuang and other places have to eat lilies, wontons, dumplings, etc., Changjing and other places have food from fried rice flour cakes, copying the custom of sprouted fava beans; Xixiang is also popular to make a round cake made of flour such as the moon to sesame seeds, leeks, lard, shortening, sugar, etc., as a filling, known as the "moon cakes," or "moon cake" or "moon cake", very delicious. ", very tasty. For lunch, eat moon cakes or salty dumplings. Mid-Autumn Festival dinner prepared sumptuous dishes, usually outside the people on this day to strive to come back, family reunion, *** into the dinner, so it is also known as the "reunion festival". After dinner, generally eat moon cakes, diamonds, pears, lotus root in the courtyard, while enjoying the moon. In the past, the residents of Jiangyin City, Mid-Autumn Festival night to the Temple to run three bridges custom, many people will run three bridges as a major event to get rid of the disease of luck, known as "over the luck". Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, married or to be married men, generally have to prepare all the moon cakes, cigarettes, wine, lotus root and other gifts, to go to his parents-in-law's home "Zhang August half". Between friends and relatives night often to moon cakes.