Customs of Guangdong at Mid-Autumn Festival

Customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangdong are as follows:

1, Tree Mid-Autumn Festival. Guangzhou's traditional Mid-Autumn Festival night is to carry out tree Mid-Autumn Festival activities, tree sound with the "vertical", that is, the meaning of the lamps and lanterns up high. Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival, inevitably inseparable from the lights. Children in Guangzhou will happily ask their parents to help them make rabbit lanterns, poplar lanterns, or square lanterns out of bamboo paper, hang them horizontally on short poles, and then erect them on high poles. There are also traditional paper tied into large shaped Kongming lanterns, under which candles are burned to generate heat, causing the lanterns to soar into the sky, adding another scene to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2, enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. The custom of eating mooncakes and enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival is a custom in most parts of the country. Because the Hakka people are spread all over the country, and the Hakka people in Guangdong are mainly located in Meizhou, Jieyang, Heyuan, etc., and most of their ancestors moved here from the Central Plains, it is not surprising that they also retain similar customs. It is worth mentioning that in addition to mooncakes, Hakka people also use glutinous rice flour and sugar to press round cakes of different sizes on Mid-Autumn Day.

3. Fire Dragon Dance. Nanzhuang Town, Foshan City, there is the custom of dancing fire dragons, symbolizing a good year and good health, has been passed down for hundreds of years. "Fire Dragon" is made of grass, before appearing on the scene, to first insert the incense and candles, and then inserted the first pillar of incense. Then in the "dragon" body every 80 centimeters to place an oil lamp, the surrounding inserted full of villagers wishing for incense, after the firecrackers and gongs and drums to open the way, the fire dragon began to travel. Villagers will be nearly a hundred meters of the dragon body, high up, a few young and strong men dancing dragon tail, tossing and dancing, the scene is very lively.

4, blessing flower basket. Chaoshan has a Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon lady custom, to the Mid-Autumn Festival night, the moon rises, will be in the yard or balcony, etc. set up the case when the sky prayer worship. Silver candles are burned high, cigarettes are smoked, and the table is full of good fruits, cakes, food, and flower baskets made of paper as offerings. So on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family will prepare beautiful paper flower baskets or various colors of gold pagoda.

5, eat sugar chicken. Eating sweetened chicken is a unique custom in Yangjiang. "Sugar chicken" production process is to boil sugar into thick sugar with a little flour, and then make a dragon boat-shaped, pagoda-shaped, rooster-shaped and other shapes of the inverted mold, plus a little coloring, so that it is white, light red, light Loc and other colors. "Sugar chicken" looks good and fun and delicious, so in the old days is very popular with children.