Introduction to Mid-Autumn Festival Customs

1. The customs in Chinese areas are mainly ancestor worship and ghost worship (also called "good brothers"), which is called street clothing burning in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. In modern times, some people often regard Mid-Autumn Festival and Orchid Festival as weird ghost festivals. There are many taboos, such as not sticking to the wall, not moving in July, not getting married, and hanging clothes at midnight. However, some taboos, such as not going out at night, have no traditional cultural basis, because traditionally many official birthday sacrifices and celebrations are held at night, which is contradictory to traditional customs.

Hong Kong people usually call this festival Magnolia Festival. People will worship their ancestors at home and burn street clothes on July 14. In July, Yulan Victory Club or China Lantern Festival was held in all regions, and Zhou Peng, an outlying island, was one of them. Zhou Ping Zhongyuan Gaojian is held every year from July 12th to 15th in the lunar calendar, lasting for four days, and the most lively day is July 15th. On that day, the ceremony included morning court, dragon boat ride, water and land lanterns, banquets, sacrifices, and transformation into an official king.

In Taiwan Province Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a very important folk festival. Regardless of government agencies, company numbers, community houses and shrines and temples, sacrificial activities will be held from the first day of July to the 30th of July in the lunar calendar, in order to comfort many good brothers on earth (known as wandering souls by Minnan people in Taiwan Province Province) and pray for peace and smoothness throughout the year.