Is it the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival to shake your head?

The "Bo Cake" in Xiamen is also called "Bo Mid-Autumn Cake" and "Expo Cake". The formation of this custom is related to the national hero Zheng Chenggong. It is said that Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Xiamen more than 300 years ago. Every August, at the full moon of 15, soldiers full of anti-Qing and heroic spirit will inevitably miss home. In order to alleviate the soldiers' yearning for their relatives in their hometown during the festival, Hong Xu, a subordinate of Zheng Chenggong, invented a cake sharing game to let the soldiers enjoy moon cakes. Zheng Chenggong personally approved that from the lunar calendar 13 to 18, the army will watch moon cakes in turn on the basis of single and double days, for a total of six nights. This unique game gradually spread and improved among the people and became an interesting folk activity. In the early years, Bo Zhuangyuan cakes mostly paid for one or two moon cakes for relatives and friends or sworn brothers and sisters. Whoever won the "first prize" with Bo will give everyone a gift next Mid-Autumn Festival. Some of them have boys to send to two meetings. In this way, the number of cakes is increasing year by year, and we have to separate two independent groups. Generally, the family is presided over by the elders, and once or twice a year, the whole family forms a circle to blog.

Hakka people's custom of eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival is roughly the same as that in other parts of the country. Hakkas call August Festival or August and a half. During the Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is full, Hakkas will put moon cakes, peanuts, grapefruit and other fruits in the yard, on the balcony, or where the moon rises in front of their houses to prepare for the "Yue Bai" activities. After the worship, the whole family enjoyed the moon together and ate out. Watching the moon is an adult's business. Children generally don't just sit there and enjoy the moon, but chase and play in the bright moonlight. This is their paradise. And the food is a little particular. Parents often let everyone eat these sacrifices to the moon god first. In China's sacrificial culture, there is a tradition that after the gods enjoy it, the sacrifices are often divided, thus ending the whole sacrificial ceremony. In the process of sharing food, on the one hand, we accepted the blessing of the moon god, on the other hand, we also fulfilled the traditional sacrificial culture. Meixian people say that eating these sacrifices is more "good" and blessed, and it will be more auspicious. In Meizhou, in addition to the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival food with universal significance, pomelo is an essential holiday food, and its varieties include golden pomelo (Shatian pomelo), honey pomelo or crystal pomelo. And eating grapefruit also has certain significance. "Like cutting grapefruit is called' killing grapefruit', which means exorcism. Some people also say that peeling grapefruit skin is' peeling ghost skin', which reflects the desire to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters. " In addition to ordinary moon cakes, there are "five-kernel moon cakes" in Hakka areas, and there is also a round cake made of glutinous rice flour and sugar. Although the social economy continues to progress, Hakka people have been inheriting the traditional food culture and developing the folk food culture, while the heritage of the Central Plains remains unchanged.