What to do on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival activities include: offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, Yue Bai, watching tides, burning lanterns, guessing, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine, playing with lanterns and burning towers. Due to different nationalities and local cultures, there are also various special activities. Examples are as follows:

First, eat moon cakes.

Luo Zhongshi Record said that Tang Xizong ate moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was very delicious, so he ordered the chef to wrap the moon cakes in HongLing and give them to the new Jinshi. This is the earliest record of moon cakes we can see. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were called "lotus leaves" and "hibiscus", and their making methods were more exquisite.

After the Song Dynasty, making moon cakes not only pays attention to taste, but also has patterns related to the legend of the Moon Palace. The pattern on the surface of the cake is first drawn on paper and then pasted on the surface of the cake. Later, I simply pressed it on the moon cake with a dough mold.

Second, burn the lamp.

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".

Third, watch the tide.

"Know the jade rabbit is very round, September has frost cold. Send a message to close the door and close the key, and the night tide stays in the moon. " This is the poem Watching the Tide on August 15th written by Su Shi, a great poet in the Song Dynasty. In addition to enjoying the moon, tide watching is another activity of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which is described in detail in Mei Cheng's famous poem Qi Fa in Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became more popular.

Fourth, offering sacrifices to the moon

Under the moon, put the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family takes turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cakes. If people are laid off in advance, the number of people in the whole family will be counted, including those at home and those from other places. You can't lay off more or less, but the size should be the same.

Five, play with lanterns

There are many games in Mid-Autumn Festival, the first is playing lanterns. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major Lantern Festival in China, so we should play with lanterns in festivals. Playing with lights is mainly between family and children.

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