What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival are:

First, play with lanterns.

There is no large-scale Lantern Festival in Mid-Autumn Festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly between families and children. In Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, Mid-Autumn Festival activities will be held on Mid-Autumn Festival night, and trees will be erected, which means that lanterns will be erected high.

In Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to all kinds of lanterns tied with paper and bamboo for children to play with, there are also simple grapefruit lanterns, pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns.

Second, burn the tower

The game of burning tile lamp (or burning flower tower, burning tile tower and burning fan tower) is widely circulated in the south. At dusk, it is burned in the firewood tower under the bright moon. As soon as the tiles burned red, kerosene was poured on the fire, and suddenly the fields were red and bright as day. It was not until late at night, when no one was watching, that it began to get interested. This is the famous tile-burning lamp. "

The tile-burning tower in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province is also a hollow tower made of bricks, which is filled with branches and burned to ashes. At the same time, it also burns smoke piles, that is, piles of grass and firewood burned after the end of Yue Bai.

Third, sacrifice the moon and enjoy the moon, Yue Bai.

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. Among ethnic minorities, the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon is also very popular.

Dietary custom culture of Mid-Autumn Festival;

1, eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing traditional custom in China. People eat moon cakes on this day to show "reunion".

The weather is clear and the moon is bright, and Gui Xiang is refreshing. Everyone tastes moon cakes and enjoys the moon together. This is a unique holiday reunion.

Do you know when moon cakes appeared? Why do you eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Moon cakes, also known as Hu cakes, Palace cakes, Moon dumplings, Harvest cakes, Reunion cakes, etc. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival.

Step 2 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 3 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, but still full of Zhong Kui's exorcism spirit.