What are the traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? What are riddles, the moon and lanterns?

The main customs of Mid-Autumn Festival are:

First, enjoy the moon (play with it)

Scholars recite poems, enjoy the moon, drink and chat under the moon. Folk songs, dances and dances under the moon.

Second, swing and drink.

Men and women eloped together under the moon, also known as "stepping on the moon (picking the moon by the river)". Wudi has the custom of walking three bridges on the moon, that is, traveling in the moonlight requires at least three bridges (see Lu Gu's Jia Qinglu, Volume 8). Shanghai also has this custom (see Yu Yousheng's Travel Notes on Metallurgy in the Seas). "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, new wines were laid in each shop, pavilions were decorated in your home, and people competed for restaurants to play the moon, listening to music thousands of miles away, and sitting in the theater until dawn" ("Dream in Tokyo"). The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty was a sleepless night. The night market is open all night, and there are endless tourists playing with the moon. Drinking and reciting poems under the moon

Third, enjoy the laurel.

Enjoy the moon, recite poems, and drink under the laurel tree.

Fourth, Yue Bai.

Woman Yue Bai. Yue Bai, a young girl, wants to be "as bright as Chang 'e and as bright as the moon". The Moon Pavilion has a big incense table with moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates and plums.

Grapes and other sacrifices, including moon cakes and watermelons, are absolutely indispensable. Yue Bai family worship or only worship women. A New Record of a Drunken Man's Drinks describes the custom in Yue Bai: "The children of the whole family, rich or poor, can reach twelve or thirteen by themselves, and they are all adults.

Eye decoration, Yue Bai burns in the building or atrium, each with its own direction; Men are willing to go to themoon early and climb the fairy laurel. ... women want to look like Chang 'e and be as round as the bright moon. Liu's Chronicle of Jinghua says: "Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people have their own moon palace." .

Symbols are like, symbols stand freely like people; Chen melon and fruit are in court, and the moon palace is painted on the cake surface. Men and women worship God and burn incense, but they burn incense.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) always: courtship, courtship, and love is like a full moon.

Six, the mascot rabbit (rabbit)

In old Beijing, there is a habit of worshipping grandpa rabbit every Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. Rabbit-shaped toys wear people's clothes Or made of mud or noodles. "The Remaining Draft of Kaoting": "The Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing is mostly in the shape of a mud rabbit, disguised as a human figure, and worshipped by children." By the Qing dynasty, the function of male prostitutes had changed from offering sacrifices to the moon to children's Mid-Autumn Festival toys. It is becoming more and more exquisite, some dressed as military commanders in armor robes, some with paper flags or umbrellas on their backs, or sitting or standing. Sit down, there are Kirin, tiger leopard and so on. There are also vendors dressed as rabbit heads, or shaving masters, or sewing shoes, selling wonton and tea soup. "Every Mid-Autumn Festival, smart people in the city make a toad and rabbit statue out of loess to sell, called a prostitute."

Seven, burning incense: burning osmanthus. Osmanthus fragrans oil and powder for women

Eight, reunion festival: husband and wife and beauty. Worship ancestors. Have a reunion dinner and enjoy the moon.

Nine, the symbol of the moon palace

Peng's "You Zhou Tu" describes: "The symbol of the Moon Palace is painted as the Jade Rabbit Kiln Platform; Moon Palace cake, made of silver toad and purple house shadow. A pair of toads and rabbits spread all over the world, regretting the year when Chang 'e stole medicine; I can't go back to the cold, I'm in Yan Dan. "

Worship the new moon

It was popular in the Tang Dynasty that whenever a new moon was born, women prayed in the middle of the night, hoping that their youth would last forever. "This can only worship women, round fans, also called moon fans.

Eleven, the Mid-Autumn Festival exchange of bronze mirrors

Because the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of bronze mirrors, it has become very popular to see the image decoration of Luna with the theme of Mid-Autumn Festival on bronze mirrors, among which the most important images are toad, jade rabbit and Chang 'e.