What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province?

In Taiwan Province Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month has a unique custom: eating taro cakes, barbecuing, offering sacrifices to the moon and Yue Bai, stealing vegetables and staying up late.

1, ancestor worship

Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taipei is to worship ancestors. There are ancestors in ordinary families in Taiwan Province Province. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be "three sacrifices" and "three dishes" on the table, with ancestral tablets on them. The so-called "three animals" refers to chicken, pork and fish, and the so-called "three dishes" refers to three kinds of fruits. As for what fruit, there is no special definition.

Step 2 worship the landlord

Among the farmers in Taiwan Province Province, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they will worship the landlords. This custom is to thank the landlord for blessing the autumn harvest. In addition to offering sacrifices to landlords, farmers have to set up "landlords' crutches" in the fields and insert bamboo and land money in the fields. In the south of Taiwan Province Province, the forest is dense, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, farmers still have the habit of worshipping the tree prince.

3. Yue Bai's mother

In Minnan dialect, the moon is called "Moon Mother" or "Moon Mother". Every Mid-Autumn Festival, most people in Taiwan Province Province will "worship the moon" and put moon cakes, grapefruit and persimmons on the incense table to pray for the safety of the whole family. Men can take part in the activities of offering sacrifices to the moon, but men in Yue Bai can't. Therefore, in Taiwan Province Province, "Yue Bai" has become a woman's patent.

Step 4 eat ducks

Kaohsiung county has a strong atmosphere of raising water ducks. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the most tender time for water ducks. Hakkas in Meinong area often slaughter water ducks and add vegetables during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which has become a major feature of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In Tainan, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of eating potatoes.

5. Outdoor barbecue

Like ancestor worship, people in Taiwan Province Province can't celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival without barbecue. Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, every household will take out the salted meat and roast it on their balcony or yard. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people came to barbecue everywhere in the park. People in Taiwan Province Province believe that long-term barbecue can greatly promote the emotional communication between relatives and friends.

6. Male prostitute

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the market in Taiwan Province Province will sell a kind of "male prostitute" for children Yue Bai. The "male prostitute" originated in the late Ming Dynasty, and was molded into a rabbit head with clay, sitting like a human figure. In the Qing dynasty, the function of "male prostitute" was transformed into a toy for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The production is more and more exquisite and diverse: there are samurai shapes, hawker shapes, hairdressers and tailors. Its diverse shapes enrich children's interest in Mid-Autumn Festival.

7. Eat grapefruit

Eating grapefruit is also a characteristic custom of autumn festival in Fujian and Taiwan. Grapefruit has the homonym of "grapefruit", which means good luck. Peel grapefruit into petals and make hats for children. Wearing a grapefruit hat is the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province. In Taiwan Province Province, grapefruit is also called composition Dan, and children like to wear it on their heads as decoration.

8. Eat taro

Eating taro is a traditional custom of Fujian and Taiwan people in the Mid-Autumn Festival. People have special feelings for taro, and anthropomorphically divide taro into taro mother, taro and taro grandson as a symbol of family affection. Therefore, every household can buy taro, make taro cakes, cook taro rice, steam taro, cook taro soup, mash taro and stir-fry taro dates, and almost make a table full of taro, almost to the point where there is no taro.

9. Eat moon cakes

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province, besides barbecue, we must eat moon cakes, which are mostly salty and sweet. The most popular is the egg yolk crisp, that is, the skin is crisp, the inside is red bean paste, and the red bean paste is wrapped with egg yolk. Besides eating moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yilan will also eat a kind of food called "vegetable cakes". Vegetable cakes are made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the middle.

10, stay up late

According to the folklore of Taiwan Province Province, the later you sleep at the Mid-Autumn Festival, the longer you live, especially girls, which will make their mothers live longer.

1 1, stealing vegetables

According to legend, if an unmarried girl steals vegetables and onions from another garden on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it means that she will find a husband. There is a folk song: "steal onions, marry a good man, steal vegetables and marry a good husband." It's a custom. Women who have not given birth after marriage will have a fat doll next year if they can steal a melon from someone else's garden on Mid-Autumn Festival night and take it home.

12, listening to incense

In the middle of the Mid-Autumn Festival, women in Taiwan Province Province often burn incense in front of the idols at home, indicating that they need to ask for directions to go out after teaching, and then go out with incense. When they hear talking and singing along the way, they will throw cups and ask God until they get an answer from God.

13, Bo Cake

Shaking one's head is a folk game of Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province and southern Fujian, which is beneficial and interesting. On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival every year, merchants will put "cakes" for rich cakes. At the beginning, friends and relatives invited each other to roll numbers with six dice in turn, and whoever rolls the set lucky numbers will get the mooncakes of this grade respectively.

14, enjoy the moon

The Gaoshan compatriots who live in the mountainous areas of Taiwan Province Province wear national costumes, sit around singing and dancing, drink and enjoy the moon and enjoy family happiness during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is high and the sunlight is scattered all over the earth.