Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival custom

The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival include: enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, burning incense, burning lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, playing with rabbits, playing with lanterns, dancing dragons, listening to incense, stealing moon dishes, burning pagoda lights, throwing handkerchiefs to attract relatives, drinking osmanthus wine, stealing vegetables to win favor, eating snails and enjoying osmanthus.

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major Lantern Festival in China, so we should play with lanterns in festivals. Lantern playing in Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south. There are all kinds of colored lights: sesame lamp, eggshell lamp, wood shavings lamp, straw lamp, fish scale lamp, chaff lamp, melon seed lamp and birds, animals and flowers lamp. In ancient Zhejiang, besides enjoying the moon, tide watching was another Mid-Autumn Festival activity.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion in a year. On this day, the whole family get together, enjoy the moon in Yue Bai, eat moon cakes and share their fun in life, work and study. In ancient China, the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival were varied, which were valued by the royal family, entertained by the people, and had strong local characteristics.

Distinctive national characteristics

1, Mongolian

Mongolians love to play the game of chasing the moon. People are riding horses and galloping on the grassland in the silver moonlight. They galloped west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that.

2. Tibetans

The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some parts of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "searching for the moon". That night, young men, women and dolls, along the river, followed the bright moon reflected in the water, took pictures of the moon shadows in the surrounding ponds, and then went home to eat moon cakes.

3. Dong people in Guangxi

The Dong people in Guangxi have the custom of "walking on the moon". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Song Lusheng and the dance teams from various cottages walked all the way to the nearby cottages, and spent a long night enjoying the moon, singing and dancing with the villagers.