What are the customs and traditions of Mid-Autumn Festival?

Traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1, eat moon cakes

As the saying goes, "August 15th is the full moon, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god. The word "moon cake" first appeared in Wu's Liang Lumeng in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Ling Hua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with tasting moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.

2. Sacrifice 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.

Step 3 light the lamp

The internal combustion candles of Mid-Autumn Night Lights are tied to bamboo poles with ropes, hung high on tile eaves or terraces, or hung on the heights of houses in zigzag or various shapes with small lights, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival on trees" or "Mid-Autumn Festival vertically".

Step 4 drink osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell osmanthus fragrance, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus flowers, drink a glass of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which becomes a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans not only can be seen, but also can be eaten. At the moment, the osmanthus festival is being held in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. Members of the public may wish to take their families to visit the eastern suburbs and enjoy flowers for the holidays.

Step 5 eat taro

Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival, in many places, means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, which means not believing in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou County Records" said: "Playing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cutting taro and eating it is called peeling the ghost skin." Cut taro to eat, it is still full of Zhong Kui exorcism.

Step 6 play with lanterns

Lantern playing in Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south. For example, the autumn festival in Foshan mentioned earlier has all kinds of colorful lights: sesame lights, eggshell lights, wood shavings lights, straw lights, fish scales lights, chaff lights, melon seeds lights, birds, animals, flowers and trees lights, which are amazing.