What to do on Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, eat moon cakes; The most popular traditional custom in Mid-Autumn Festival is to eat moon cakes. As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". The word "moon cake" first appeared in Liang Lumeng written by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Ling Hua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with tasting moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.

2. Sacrifice the moon; Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the important ceremonies in ancient China. The Book of Rites records: "The son of heaven is sunny in spring and autumn is in the evening. The Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the evening is in the evening. " In the Zhou Dynasty, the emperor had the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox, to the land at the summer solstice, to the moon at the autumnal equinox and to heaven at the winter solstice. With the passage of time, the Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually spread to the people, and the date of the Mid-Autumn Festival has also moved from the autumnal equinox to the nearest full moon day-the Mid-Autumn Festival.

3. Bo cake; The Mid-Autumn Festival is a unique moon cake culture and a unique traditional Mid-Autumn Festival activity in southern Fujian for hundreds of years. Legend has it that when Zheng Chenggong was stationed in the army, in order to solve the soldiers' love for the Mid-Autumn Festival and boost their morale, the Ministry of Life invented it by Hong Xu. People's emotional sustenance is devoted to Expo activities, especially in Xiamen. Therefore, Minnan people have always attached great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is even a saying of "small Spring Festival, big Mid-Autumn Festival".

4, burning lights; The ancients had the custom of "burning lanterns" to help the moon. In Huguang area, it is customary to use tiled towers and light lanterns on them, while in Jiangnan area, it is customary to make lanterns. In modern times, the custom of burning lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival is more popular, especially in Guangdong. Ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family tied lanterns with bamboo sticks, wrote down the words of fruits, birds and animals and "Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival", pasted paper and painted with various colors. Mid-autumn night lights and internal combustion candles are hung at the height of the house, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival on the tree" or "Mid-Autumn Festival vertically".