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What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, burning paper money, praying for blessings and offering sacrifices to landlords.

1, ancestor worship: Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day to show respect and gratitude to our ancestors. People will provide food, sacrifices and paper money to their ancestors and pray for their protection.

2. River lanterns: People will put made paper lanterns into rivers or lakes to express their memory of their deceased relatives and pray that they will live in peace in another world.

3. Burning paper money: Burning paper money is a way to show respect and gratitude to ancestors. People think that burning paper money can help ancestors live a better life in the underworld.

4. Blessing: During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will go to temples, Taoist temples and other places to pray for peace, auspiciousness and health.

5. Sacrifice to the land god: The land god is considered to be the god in charge of land and grain harvest, so on the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will worship the land god and pray for a bumper harvest and peace.