What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The customs of the Mid-Yuan Festival include Pudu in the middle of the Yuan Dynasty, offering sacrifices to land and sending sheep.

1, Zhongyuan Purdue

The Central Plains is a very important folk festival. Many people will hold sacrificial activities with wine, meat, candy cakes, fruits and other sacrifices between the first day of July and the 30th of July in the lunar calendar, in order to comfort many ghosts who are playing on earth and pray that they will be safe and smooth all the year round. More solemn even asked monks and Taoists to recite scriptures.

2. Sacrifice land

On July 15th, offering sacrifices to land and crops is still a folk custom. Scatter sacrifices in the fields. After burning the paper, wrap it on the ears of crops with cut five-color paper. Legend has it that autumn can avoid hail and get a bumper harvest. At the same time, some places have to go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices. Hemp and valley are hung at the gate of Dingxiang county folk custom.

3. Sheep Festival

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is also called "Sheep Festival". Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Sheep are auspicious." It can be seen that in ancient times, sheep always represented auspiciousness. In the rural areas of old Beijing and North China, it is popular for old men to send live sheep to their little nephews on July 15th. Legend has it that this custom is related to the legend that agarwood splits the mountain to save mother. From then on, the folk left the custom of sending live sheep to my uncle, and later it gradually evolved into sending a sheep to the other side.

The festival significance of Mid-Autumn Festival;

1, remember our ancestors

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival of sacrifice. People will worship their ancestors, burn paper money, add soil and so on. To express their thoughts and respect for their ancestors. This is a way to inherit the culture of filial piety, so that people can pursue the future cautiously and remember their ancestors.

2. Carry forward the righteous act of pushing yourself and others and being charitable.

Through sacrifice and prayer, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival extends the worship and filial piety of ancestors to more people, and further promotes the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation.

3. Inheriting folk beliefs

The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to folk beliefs, which reflects people's awe and gratitude to the gods.

4. Celebrate the harvest and repay the gift of the earth.

Mid-Autumn Festival is also a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the land in early autumn. Plus July 15, August 15 and September 15, which are called "three seasons", some crops are mature. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng and Xinmi and other sacrifices to their ancestors.