Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival (Ghost Festival) in Zhangjiakou 15

The accurate spelling of Tijiang doll is "Tijiang doll".

"Pulp extraction" is a pastry making process in which syrup is boiled and flour is mixed.

"Toilet doll" is a folk food circulating in Zhangjiakou, Zhuolu and Xuanhua.

There are two figures: "birthday boy" and "child".

Generally, it is cooked on the Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15, and only eaten on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.

It can be seen that the "pulp doll" is actually the deformation of moon cakes.

The legend of "killing Mongols" also proves the origin of "clay dolls" and "moon cakes".

The widely circulated legend of "killing Tatars on August 15th" tells that Liu Bowen put a note of "killing Tatars living in your house on August 15th" in the stuffing of moon cakes, calling on the people to rise up against the Mongolian rulers.

The legend around Zhangjiakou is that the note was put in a "pulp doll", just like the former.

It is not so much the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival to raise pulp dolls.

It is better to say that "clay dolls" are "moon cakes" in Zhangjiakou and other places.