What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The 15th day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional ancestor worship festival in China-Mid-Autumn Festival, also called July 30th, Ghost Festival, Local Officials' Day and so on. The most important traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is to worship ancestors and the dead. Generally speaking, people will burn paper money to commemorate their ancestors and their deceased relatives.

What you may not know is that the Mid-Autumn Festival actually evolved from the ancient autumn harvest in July and half to worship ancestors. At that time, there was no such word as Mid-Autumn Festival. At that time, July and a half was a festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. When some crops are ripe, according to the law, people will worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng and new rice and other sacrifices to their ancestors. Therefore, in July and a half, there is only a simple content to celebrate the harvest by offering sacrifices to ancestors.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the customs mainly include: crossing the lonely river lantern, offering sacrifices to ancestors, jumping sky lanterns, offering sacrifices to the land and praying for a bumper harvest. 1. Crossing the river lanterns with river lanterns, also known as "putting lotus lanterns", is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation, which first evolved from the custom of decorating lanterns on the Lantern Festival. Lotus lanterns usually put lights or candles on the base and let them drift in rivers, lakes and seas. The purpose of putting on lotus lanterns is to pray for blessings, to mourn the dead relatives and to bless the people in this world. Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, when night falls, people who mourn their deceased relatives come to the riverside to light lotus lanterns and throw them into rivers, lakes and seas, hoping to bring people's thoughts and beautiful prayers to the deceased ancestors and pray for peace and happiness!

The folk custom of ancestor worship has a long history and has been passed down for thousands of years. It is a grand folk activity, a tradition of respecting ancestral culture, and a manifestation of traditional ethics of cautiously pursuing the future and thinking about the roots.

The custom of ancestor worship on the Mid-Autumn Festival is formed because people believe that ancestors will go home to visit their children and grandchildren in July and a half, so there is a custom of ancestor worship.

In ancient times, folk ancestors attached great importance to sacrificial ceremonies, and the sacrificial ceremonies of July Festival were usually held at night. When worshipping, the head of a family should first worship the portrait of his ancestors in the ancestral hall, and then burn incense, candles and paper. At this time, the whole family will come to the ancestral hall and perform ancestor worship ceremonies in the order of seniority and age.

It happened that the ancestor worship ceremony of Mid-Autumn Festival caught up with the bumper harvest of crops in autumn, so this day's sacrifice activity is also called "autumn harvest ancestor worship", and the younger generation should share the joy of bumper harvest with their ancestors.

3. The meaning of the custom of "praying for a bumper harvest" is similar to the custom of "offering sacrifices to the land", because "Mid-Autumn Festival" coincides with the bumper harvest in small autumn, and people hope to pray for a good yearning for a bumper harvest in the fields in this form. The difference between the custom of "praying for a bumper harvest" and the custom of "offering sacrifices to the earth" lies in the form. In ancient times, the night of Mid-Autumn Festival was also called Stone Drum Night. On this night, every household should burn incense at home to pray for a bumper harvest of rice and put incense on the ground. This is called "paving the field" (transplanting rice seedlings). The more you insert, the better, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of rice in autumn.

What are the folk customs handed down from various places? As the soul of Guangxi people, I want to introduce the local customs of my hometown to you.

Mid-Autumn Festival, as one of the traditional ancestor worship festivals in China, is of course the first custom. Our Guangxi is no exception. Generally, we will kill a duck to eat on this day, so we will joke that the Mid-Autumn Festival is "Duck Festival". Of course, ducks are used for eating, but chickens are used for sacrifice (usually white-cut chickens).

Worship god during the day, please come back first;

Worship the squire in the evening and invite people to dinner first;

Two more public holidays, farewell ancestors here, mainly said that two more public holidays. That is, after dinner, at 9:00- 1 1:00, adults team up to set the table at the entrance of the village to offer offerings. We children are responsible for lighting incense and inserting incense on the roadside, and inserting a pillar every one meter until the end of the road, at the edge of another village. From a distance, it looks like a swimming salamander. Finally, the adults packed their things and went home, and the children ran around on the road to play. It is called Happy July15th, which is of practical significance to us.

The values advocated in traditional folk customs, such as honoring parents, remembering ancestors, inheriting culture, promoting neighborhood harmony and caring for vulnerable groups, are in the same strain as the values of today's society. The Mourning of the Central Plains has both cultural origin and practical significance. As long as we actively guide, the Mid-Autumn Festival can still be very rich.

The above is the folk custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangxi, so what customs do you have there? Welcome everyone to leave a message.