What are the customs and customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

About the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival? 1. About the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: Watching the Tide "We must know that the Jade Rabbit is very round, and it has been frosty and windy in September. Send a message to the heavy door, close the key, and watch the night tide towards the middle of the moon."

This is the poem "Watching the Tide on August 15th" written by Su Shi, a great poet of the Song Dynasty.

In ancient times, in Zhejiang, besides admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, watching the tide was another Mid-Autumn event.

The custom of watching the tide during the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. It was described in detail in Meicheng's "Qifa" ode in the Han Dynasty.

After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching tides during the Mid-Autumn Festival became even more popular.

There are also records of tide watching in Zhu Tinghuan's "Supplement to the Old Wulin Stories" of the Ming Dynasty and "Mengliang Lu" written by Wu Zimu of the Song Dynasty.

The grand event of tide watching described in these two books shows that during the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching reached an unprecedented peak.

2. Regarding the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: Eating moon cakes while leisurely Qin Zaisi "Luozhong Jiwen" said that Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty ate moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mooncakes wrapped in silk ribbons were given to new scholars.

This is the earliest record of moon cakes that we can see.

By the Song Dynasty, mooncakes had elegant names such as "Lotus Leaf", "Golden Flower", "Hibiscus", etc., and their production methods were more sophisticated.

The poet Su Dongpo praised it in a poem, saying, "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and sweet cakes in them." The short cakes are pastry, and the sweet cakes are sugar. You can imagine the sweet, crispy and fragrant taste.

After the Song Dynasty, making moon cakes not only paid attention to taste, but also designed various patterns related to the legend of the Moon Palace on the cake surface.

The pattern on the cake was probably first drawn on paper and then pasted on the cake. Later, he simply used a dough mold to press it onto the mooncake.

The full-moon-shaped moon cake also symbolizes reunion like the full moon on the fifteenth day. People regard it as a festival food, use it to worship the moon, and use it to give gifts to relatives and friends.

This is undoubtedly a reflection of the national psychology of the Han nation.

Legend has it that in the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers of Yuan and Meng were afraid that the people would rise up, so they adopted a high-pressure policy of sending one soldier to every ten households to monitor them, and only one kitchen knife was allowed for ten households. The people could not bear it, so they took advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 to give each other gifts

On the occasion of the moon cake, a wax ball is placed in the moon cake. The wax ball is wrapped in paper with an oath written on it. A piece of paper is also attached to the bottom of the cake as a hint to call on each other to fight against Mongolia and return to the country.

People in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, call this kind of moon cake "Sanjin", and according to the local dialect, the homophone is "Shaqi".

This is probably the reason why mooncakes are often pasted with a piece of paper today.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival Customs: Playing with the Moon Playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival is called moon appreciation by modern people. This is a happy event for the ancients who were both refined and popular.

Looking at the form of playing with the moon, the rich often build their own colorful houses, the greedy often live in restaurants, and those who like to travel either climb mountains or swim in the water, and they must have food and wine, literati write poems, and laymen

Talking about ancient times often involves staying up all night.

In addition to the aristocrats and civilians who play with the moon, there are also those who enjoy the moon during sightseeing.

Tang Dynasty Li She's poem "Watching the Moon at Junshan Terrace on Mid-Autumn Night": "In front of the Jinjiang River in the flowers on the embankment, we have traveled together with poetry and wine for forty years. The brightest night of the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the day when the moon rises over Dongting Lake." This is evidence of mountain climbing and watching the moon.

"Jiangnan Chronicles" of the Ming Dynasty records: In Changshu County, in August, "tourists sailed boats and gathered on the lake bridge to look at the moon." This is evidence of boating and enjoying the moon.

Of course, when the ancients played with the moon, they did not just enjoy the bright moon in the sky, but often viewed the moon together with other scenery in nature. For example, the famous landscapes - Lugou Dawn Moon, Three Pools Mirrored in the Moon, etc., are undoubtedly

It is a perfect place for people to play with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival customs: lighting lanterns On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky is as clear as water and the moon is as bright as a mirror. It is a beautiful sight on a good day. However, people are not satisfied with this, so there is a custom of lighting lanterns to help with the moonlight.

In the Huguang area, it is a custom to stack tiles on a tower and light lanterns on it.

In the Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making light boats.

In modern times, the custom of lighting lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival has become more popular.

An article written by Zhou Yunjin and He Xiangfei in modern times said: "Lanterns are the most popular in Guangdong. Ten days before the festival, every family will use bamboo sticks to tie lanterns. They are made into shapes of fruits, birds, animals, fish and insects.

and "Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival" and other words, painted on colored paper in various colors. Mid-Autumn night lanterns with internal burning candles are tied to bamboo poles, placed on high trees on the eaves or terraces, or small lamps are built into glyphs or various shapes and hung.

It is commonly known as the "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Put-up Mid-Autumn Festival" on the top of the house. The lanterns hung in wealthy homes can be several feet high. Family members gather under the lanterns to have fun, while ordinary people put up a flagpole and two lanterns.

It’s also fun for oneself. The lights all over the city are like a glass world.” It seems that the custom of lighting lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been second only to the Lantern Festival since ancient times.

5. Regarding the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: Playing with the Rabbit. In "Palace Records" written by recent Jin Yi and Shen Yiling, a story told by a palace maid named Rong'er is recorded.

It was the year when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi escaped from Kyoto. On her way to escape, it happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival. In her panic, the Empress Dowager did not forget the old rituals and customs, so she held a ceremony in the Xinzhou Gongyuan where she was staying.

The ritual of offering sacrifices to the moon.

The story says, "After dinner, according to the custom of the palace, the queen has to offer sacrifices to the 'Taiyin Lord'. This is probably based on the custom in the Northeast that 'men do not worship rabbits, and women do not offer sacrifices to stoves.' "Taiyin Lord" is worshiped by everyone.

The housewife of the house comes to offer sacrifices. In the southeast corner of the courtyard, a table is placed, and a piece of paper is printed with a big rabbit making medicine in the moon palace. The incense altar is a square bucket.

, the buckets in northern Shanxi are not round, they are square. Sometimes people in northern Shanxi sing on the street, "It's not as round as the moon, but as square as the bucket, and it's not as sweet as Sister Ga's tenderness." It can be seen that the buckets in northern Shanxi are all square.

The bucket is filled with new sorghum, and the mouth of the bucket is covered with yellow paper. Four plates of fruit and four plates of moon cakes are placed on the table. The moon cakes are stacked half a foot high.