What are the customs of Jiangsu Zhongyuan Festival

Customs of Jiangsu Mid-Yuan Festival: releasing river lanterns, making eggplant cakes, praying for a good harvest, eating ducks, and worshipping ancestors.

1, put the river lamp

Have the custom of the Mid-Yuan Festival put the river lamp, many places have, Nanjing is particularly important, according to the "renewed literature Tongkao" records: "Hongwu five years in the first month of the fourteenth day, the edict of the near ministers in the Qinhuai River burning water lamps ten thousand branches, fifteen nights at midnight to complete the work. "

River lanterns, also known as "lotus lamp", "water lanterns", generally papier-maché or origami lotus, put small candles or oil lamps at the base, the night of the New Year's Day on the rivers and lakes, and let it drift, for the dead to light the way home.

2, do the eggplant cake

In the Mid-Yuan Festival, the Jiangnan area there is an old custom is to do the eggplant cake, some of the big families to do some more, given to the relatives. The main purpose of the eggplant cake is to be used for "offering". After the offerings were made, the children and adults would eat them in small portions so that they would not go to waste. The deep-fried eggplant cake is shaped like a half-moon, with a fluffy, crispy skin and a flavorful inner filling.

3. Pray for a good harvest

The Mid-Yuan Festival is close to the fall harvest season, and in addition to offering sacrifices to the lonely souls, it also undertakes the task of praying for a good harvest. The night of the Shi Lu, Jiangnan Jiangbei, families will burn incense in front of their homes to pray for a good harvest, and incense sticks inserted in the ground, which is called "Butian" (rice-planting), inserted the more the better, as a symbol of the autumn harvest of a good harvest.

4, eat duck

Chinese New Year's Day on the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, many parts of the country will choose to eat duck. The original "duck" is "pressure", to take its harmony. As for how to eat it, you can eat it according to your own preference.

5, ancestor worship

The main event of the Mid-Yuan Festival is ancestor worship, and although many people nowadays have begun to replace the traditional way of ancestor worship through the network ancestor worship, flowers, and electronic incense candles, it is believed that there are still a lot of people who will still worship their ancestors through the burning of incense, paper money, and wax activities.