What are the traditional Chinese mid-autumn festival customs

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What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

1, eat moon cakes

Eat moon cakes is the main custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to existing records, the custom of eating moon cakes first originated in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xi Zong ate moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, feel the taste is very beautiful, then ordered the Imperial Household Restaurant to use red damask wrapped moon cakes rewarded to new students. In the Song Dynasty, mooncakes were known as "lotus leaf", "golden flower", "hibiscus", etc., and their production methods were more refined. The poet Su Dongpo praised the mooncake in a poem: "A small cake is like chewing the moon, with crispy and syrupy ingredients." Its deliciousness can be imagined.

2, moon festival

In ancient times, there is a "moon festival" custom, moon festival, that is, to worship the moon god. Under the moon, set up a large incense burner, place the moon god statue in the direction of the moon, red candles burning high, set up moon cakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings, the whole family in turn to worship the moon, and then by the housewife to cut the reunion of the moon cakes, the whole family how many people will be cut into how many pieces.

3, enjoy the moon

In addition to the moon festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times, the custom of enjoying the moon, to the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night to welcome the cold and the moon festival, set up a large incense, food and wine, a group of people surrounded by drinking wine and enjoying the moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on Mid-Autumn Night, and the tree is also used as a vertical, which means that the lights and colors are put up high. Children in the parents with the assistance of bamboo paper tied into a rabbit lamp, Yang Peach lamp or square lamps, hung horizontally in the short pole, and then erected on a high pole, high technology up, colorful light shining, for the Mid-Autumn Festival to add a scene. The children compete with each other to see who can put up the highest and most exquisite lanterns. In addition, there are sky lanterns, that is, the Kongming lanterns, with paper tied into a large-shaped lights, lights under the candle, hot air upward, so that the lights flying in the air, attracting people to chase sub-laughing. In addition, there are children's hand-held lanterns in the moonlight play play.

Young unmarried people also burn incense and candles under the moon, begging the moon for its matchmaking. In the old days, some women in Dongguan believe that "the old man as a matchmaker", where there are adult men and women at home without a lover, to facilitate the Mid-Autumn Festival night when three, burning incense and candles under the moon, begging the old man for its matchmaking. Legend has it that on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moonlight can make women pregnant. In some areas, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Moon, some of the long-married infertile women will go out of their homes, bathing in the moonlight, hoping to give birth to a son, so-called "shine the moon".

The ancient saying: "men do not worship the moon, women do not worship the stove", men belong to the type of masculine energy, and the moon is not compatible with the Yin. Moreover, the goddess in charge of the moon is Chang'e, so the custom of worshipping the moon was originally only suitable for female friends to participate in.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, be sure to pick round fruits and mooncakes to signify reunion and harmony! You can share the mooncakes together as a family afterward. As for fruits, pomelo and persimmons, which are all eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival, are a perfect choice!