What are the special activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, enjoy the moon

Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China, and enjoying the moon is an important custom of the festival. Many poets in the famous poem there is a poem of the moon, the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the court and civil moonlight activities on a larger scale. Appreciate the moon also refers to the August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival to watch the full moon, the folk Mid-Autumn Moon Festival activities began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties.

2, moon festival

China's people in ancient times, there is "autumn sunset" custom. The moon, that is, to worship the moon god. By the Zhou Dynasty, every mid-autumn night to welcome the cold and moon festival. The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, the activities of the ethnic minorities moon festival is similar to the Han Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, there are also a series of activities rich in ethnic characteristics, such as the Zhuang people's sacrifice of the moon, so it is also known as the "Festival of the Moon".

3, Mid-Autumn Lighting

In the Hubei and Guangdong area, there are tiles stacked tower on the tower lighting custom, in the Jiangnan area there are made of lantern boat custom. In modern times, the custom of burning lanterns in the mid-autumn festival is more prevalent. In Guangdong, the most prevalent lanterns, each family in the Mid-Autumn Festival ten days before the bamboo strips tied lanterns. Fruit, birds and animals, fish and insects and 'celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival' and other words, on the paste color paper painted in various colors.

Mid-Autumn Lanterns burning candles with rope tied to bamboo poles, high trees on the eaves or terrace, or small lamps built into characters or all kinds of shapes, hanging high in the house. Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns on a scale second only to the Lantern Festival.

4, eat moon cakes

Eat moon cakes, Mid-Autumn Festival diet. "Mooncake" was first seen in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Meng Liang Records". A round cake with filling bait, for the Lunar Mid-Autumn Festival seasonal food, Yuan Zhou Mi, "Wulin old things": moon cakes for "steamed from food". So far in shandong yexian, weixian and other places have this kind of moon cake. Take the meaning of reunion. Xianfeng nine years "Jinxiang County": "Mid-Autumn Festival: for moon cakes, buy watermelon, gifts to friends and relatives.

5, tide watching

In ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in Zhejiang, tide watching can be regarded as another Mid-Autumn event. Mid-autumn tide-watching custom has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty, Mei multiplied the "seven hair" fugue in a fairly detailed account. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching the tide in mid-autumn was even more prevalent. Ming Zhu Tinghuan "Additions to the old story of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu "Mengliang Records" also have tide watching records.