What are the traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival? Introduction to traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eating moon cakes is the main custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the existing records, the custom of eating moon cakes originated in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Xizong ate moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival and thought it was delicious. He ordered the chef to wrap moon cakes in HongLing and give them to the new scholars. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were called "lotus leaf", "golden flower" and "hibiscus", and their production methods were more exquisite. The poet Su Dongpo praised in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there is fullness in the crisp." Its subtlety can be imagined.

2. Sacrifice the moon

In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk", that is, worshipping the moon god. A big incense table was set up under the moon, the moon statue was placed towards the moon, red candles were burned high, and sacrifices such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes were placed. The whole family took turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cut the reunion moon cakes into pieces as many as the whole family.

Step 3 enjoy the moon

In addition to offering sacrifices to the moon, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had the custom of enjoying the moon since ancient times. During the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people held a festival to welcome the cold, set up a big incense table, put on wine and food, and a group of people got together to drink and enjoy the moon.