How much do you know about the Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Yongnian?

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people's main activities are enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes.

Appreciate the bright full moon

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, China has had the custom of enjoying the moon since ancient times. There is a record of "autumn twilight and moon" in the Book of Rites, that is, worship.

. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. Put a big incense table with moon cakes, watermelons, apples,

Grapes, etc.

Among them, moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. Watermelon must be cut into lotus shapes.

In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was more prosperous, according to "

"It is recorded:" On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, your home decorated the terrace, and the people competed for food and play with the moon. On this day, all the shops and restaurants in Beijing will redecorate their facades.

It is a silk ornament, selling fresh fruits and refined food. The night market is very lively, and people often visit The Upper Terrace. Some wealthy families enjoy the moon on their pavilions and put food or decorations on them.

, reunion children, * * * talk to the moon.

After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival remained the same. In many places, the custom of burning incense, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting tower lanterns and releasing flowers was formed.

Special customs such as walking on the moon and dancing with fire dragons.

Eat moon cakes

People in urban and rural areas of China have the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. As the saying goes, "August 15th is full,

Sweet, sweet. "Moon cakes were originally used for sacrifice.

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The word "moon cake" was first seen in Liang Lumeng by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was like.

Cake-like food like a cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with tasting moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.

Mooncakes were originally made at home, and the practice of mooncakes was recorded in Yuan Mei's Menu with the Garden in the Qing Dynasty. In modern times, with workshops specializing in making moon cakes, the production of moon cakes has become more and more elaborate, with exquisite fillings and beautiful appearance, and various exquisite patterns are printed on the outside of moon cakes, such as "

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"and so on. It has become the wish of people all over the world to show people's reunion with a full moon, to show people's eternal life with a round moon cake, to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown and to pray for a bumper harvest and happiness. Moon cakes are also used as gifts to send to relatives and friends and to connect feelings.

Other Mid-Autumn Festival customs

China has a vast territory, a large population and different customs. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in a variety of ways, with strong local characteristics.

In Pucheng, Fujian, women have to cross nanpu bridge to live longer during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Jianning, hanging lanterns is the direction of Mid-Autumn Festival night.

Having children is a good sign.

People celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of their children are invited to visit their parents in Yue Bai.

When people eat moon cakes,

Dig a round cake with a diameter of two or three inches in the center for the elders to eat, which means that you can't tell the secret to the younger generation. This custom stems from the legend that moon cakes contain the message of anti-meta-killing. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Kinmen, Yue Bai should worship God.

Guangdong

Yue Bai has the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival, mainly for women and children. As the saying goes, "men are dissatisfied with the moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves." At night,

At the beginning of the rising, women put up a box in the yard and balcony to pray. Silver candle

The air was filled with cigarettes, and the table was filled with delicious fruits and cakes as sacrifices. There is also the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Custom,

There is an old saying: "When rivers talk, taro gets it." . August is the harvest season of taro, and farmers are used to it.

To worship our ancestors. Of course, this has something to do with farming, but there is also a popular folk legend: 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty, established the Yuan Dynasty, and brutally ruled the Han people. Mafa went into hiding.

Anti-Yuan, after the city was broken, the people were slaughtered. In order not to forget

The suffering of rule will be taken by later generations.

Homophonic with "tiger head", it looks like a human head, passed down from generation to generation, and still exists today.

Burning towers on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival is also very popular in some places. Tower height 1-3 meters, mostly broken.

Build by laying bricks or stones, the big tower will be built with bricks, accounting for about 1/4 of the tower height, and then it will be used again.

It is made of stacked bricks, with a tower mouth at the top for oil injection. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it will be lit and burned. The fuel is wood, bamboo, chaff, etc. And it will spill when the fire is big.

Cheering with fire is spectacular. There are also folk rules for burning stupas. Whoever burns the stupa to the house will win, and those who fail or collapse in the burning process will lose. The winner will be presented by the host.

Bonuses or prizes. It is said that burning towers is also the origin of Han people's resistance to cruel rulers and Mid-Autumn Uprising at the end of Yuan Dynasty.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk customs in Jiangnan are also varied.

Mid-Autumn Festival loves moon cakes, so you must eat Jinling.

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Suitable for market, fat but not greasy, delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp on it. Beauty speaks for itself. "Gui Jiang" is named after Qu Yuan.

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Picking before and after Mid-Autumn Festival, using sugar and

Pickling. Jiangnan women are good at turning poems and songs into delicacies on the table.

The whole family enjoying the moon is called "celebrating reunion", the group getting together to drink is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".

In the early Ming Dynasty, there were Moon Tower and Moon Bridge in Nanjing. By the Qing Dynasty,

The Moon Tower is built for people to enjoy the moon, and most people play the Moon Bridge. When the moon is high, people go to the Moon Tower and the Moon Bridge to see it.

For fun. "Playing Moon Bridge" at

To the south, next to the bridge is a famous prostitute.

Fu, this night, the literati gathered on the bridge to play the piano and sing, recalling Niu Zhu playing the piano on the moon, right?

Poetry, so this bridge is called the Moon Bridge. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, it gradually declined, and later generations wrote a poem saying, "The romantic Southern Song Dynasty has ended, and the west wind has left a long slab bridge, but I remember sitting on the Yuren Bridge, with the bright moon facing each other."

"。 Longbanqiao, the original Moon Bridge. In recent years,

After renovation, some pavilions and pavilions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were restored and the rivers were dredged. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can enjoy playing with the moon together.

In Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, incense is burned on Mid-Autumn Festival night. There is gauze around the incense barrel, which is painted with

The scenery is. And Xiang Dou.

Woven with paper on it.

And color

Mid autumn banquet

Wine with food.

Jiangxi province

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, every village uses straw to burn jars. When the crock is red, put the vinegar in it. At this time, the whole village will smell a fragrance. When Xincheng County celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, it began to hang up on the night of August 1 1.

Lights, until August 17.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan County, Anhui Province, children piled bricks in an open space.

. The tower is hung with curtains.

And other decorations, and put a table in front of the tower, display all kinds of utensils to worship the "tower god" at night, lights and candles are lit inside and outside. Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn firecrackers. Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers are braided with straw, picked up and smashed stones after soaking, making a loud noise, which is a custom in Youlong. A fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense in it. Sometimes you go to Youlong.

Travel together, walk around the village, and then send them to the river.

In Sichuan province, in addition to eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, people also eat cakes, ducks, sesame cakes and honey cakes. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate. There are also children who burn incense on grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "dancing meteor ball" The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County is a land god for fun.

Vocal music and cultural relics are called "observation meetings".

In the north, Shandong Province

On August 15, farmers offered sacrifices to Tugu God, which was called "Young Miao Society".

, Linyi and

In addition to offering sacrifices to the moon, all other places should go to the grave to worship their ancestors.

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Landlords in Guangrao, Guangrao and Postal City also hosted a banquet in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eating a seasonal food in the Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Wheat Arrow". Shanxi province

Banquet for son-in-law in Mid-Autumn Festival.

Moon cakes are called reunion cakes, and there is a custom of vigil on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Hebei Province

Call the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day", and there are pictures on the moonlight paper.

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Look at the Spring and Autumn Portrait at night.

County people think that the Mid-Autumn Festival rain is bitter rain. If it rains in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local people think that vegetables must be terrible.

Shanxi(Province)

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the man went boating on the cliff and the woman arranged the banquet. No matter rich or poor, people should eat watermelons. Mid-Autumn Festival

Drum along the door as a reward.

On Mid-Autumn Festival, parents lead students to bring gifts to pay homage to their husbands, and there are more lunches than school dinners.

Some places have also formed many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs. Besides enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are also dragon dances in Hong Kong and heaps in Anhui.

Guangzhou Mid-Autumn Festival, Shaotazai, Jinjiang, Suzhou.

Look at the moon,

Yue Bai,

Jump on the moon,

Stealing the moon plate,

Hold a dance, etc.