What folk activities are there in Mid-Autumn Festival?

The main folk customs of Mid-Autumn Festival are: appreciating the moon, worshiping the moon, chasing the moon and eating moon cakes.

1, enjoy the moon. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, every family gets together, eats moon cakes in the yard, enjoys the moon and laughs and plays. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it did not become a habit. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival centered on appreciating the moon was formed and officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, "your family decorated the pavilion, and the people competed for the restaurant to play the moon."

2. Go to the moon. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, under the bright moonlight, people wear gorgeous clothes, walk in groups of three or five, or swim in the streets, or spend time in the Qinhuai River, or go upstairs to enjoy the moon, talking and laughing. In the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing had a building to look at the moon and a bridge to play with the moon. In the Qing Dynasty, there was the Moon Tower under Lion Mountain, which was a scenic spot for tourists to enjoy the moon.

3. Sacrifice the moon. Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China, which is actually the worship of the "Moon God" by the ancients. Since ancient times, in some places in Guangdong, people have the custom of worshipping the moon god (mother moon and moonlight) on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. There was a big incense table, and Yue Bai's moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes were offered as sacrifices.

4. Chasing the moon. The so-called "chasing the moon" means that people are still excited after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, so the next night, many people invite relatives and friends to continue to enjoy the moon. This is the so-called "chasing the moon". According to the preface of A Qing Chen Zihou's Lingnan Miscellaneous Notes: "Good people in central Guangdong gather in Izayoi in August, waiting for wine and food to enjoy the moon, which is called chasing the moon."

5. Eat moon cakes. Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk custom in China, just like eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and glutinous rice balls on Lantern Festival. It is said that there was a custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Tang Dynasty, but as a food name, moon cakes were associated with the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty. By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, mooncakes had become the Japanese and American styles of Mid-Autumn Festival. In modern times, with workshops specializing in making moon cakes, moon cakes are made more finely, with exquisite fillings and beautiful appearance, and are also divided into flat, Soviet, Guangdong and desktop flavors.