Linhai Mid-Autumn Festival what customs

August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival sixteen over

Linhai has a long history, beautiful scenery, outstanding people. In the rich historical and humanistic atmosphere of Linhai, there are different living customs from other places.

The Lantern Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional festival of the Chinese people, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, and the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the 8th month, but Linhai treats the 14th day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, and the 16th day of the 8th month as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

You must be curious to ask, why on earth the Lantern Festival a day earlier and the Mid-Autumn Festival pushed back a day? This custom. The old ancestors passed down the custom, there are several existing sayings.

1. According to the Linhai County Records, the late Yuan peasant uprising leader Fang Guozhen, afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang in the Lantern Festival came to attack, so the Lantern Festival a day earlier.

2. Qing Guangxu "Huangyan County Records" said that because three, six, nine is the day of the fair, easy to buy goods, only the Mid-Autumn Festival was changed to August 16th.

3. I like this statement, is a modern civilized society advocated that children should have filial piety to their parents.

Said Linhai Ming Dynasty scholar Qin Minglei, high official, his mother believes in Buddhism, fasting on the first fifteen days. Qin Minglei is a filial son, can not bear to mother empty festivals, so the Lantern Festival in Linhai ahead of the fourteen, since the mother was able to celebrate the festival. The mother was also able to enjoy the festivities with her family.

The city of Linhai has made it a customary practice to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the 14th day of the first month. The first month of the Lantern Festival is one day earlier.

And the Mid-Autumn Festival August 15, Qin Minglei and proposed that the Mid-Autumn Festival will be postponed for one day, August 16 is just the full moon, the meaning of the perfect, but also a filial piety as the theme of the festival, the name is also very bright and righteous. From this day onwards, the Mid-Autumn Festival was changed to August 16 held, the beginning of the capital city, the counties follow suit, Taizhou August Mid-Autumn Festival are held on the 16th.

Special custom is a special way to eat. Previously Linhai people over the Mid-Autumn Festival is also special. August 16 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, on this day, families have the custom of eating "Gao Nui". Gao Nui is made by mixing a small amount of glutinous rice flour with water and wetting it to make it fluffy, and then sieving it into a steamer basket with a sand sieve. The bottom of the steamer is covered with a layer of fine sand cloth, and a small empty bowl or a garden cork is placed in the center, where a layer of powder and a layer of brown sugar are added until the steamer is full, and then the cake is steamed. After steaming the cake, and fluffy and sweet, eat with a knife to cut a piece, the texture is beautiful, it is the flavor of the Linhai food. With six bowls of nine bowls of dishes, new duck roasted taro. Drink two cups of three cups of old wine, only to be considered decent over the Mid-Autumn Festival. But now most of the people in Linhai will not do "Gao Nui" Oh. I'm not sure if I can do it, but I'm sure I can do it.

Mid-Autumn mooncakes are to be eaten. The mooncakes in Linhai are Su-style cakes, locally known as frosted cakes, which are locally produced and are larger than Su-style cakes, heavy in oil, crispy and melt in your mouth. Of course, the sweetness is also big. There are traditional varieties such as sesame, pretzel, lard and sugar, etc. In recent years, salty dried vegetable cakes, scallion cakes, fresh meat cakes, etc. have been newly added. If you go to Linhai on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, then you must try the Linhai Sugar Frosted Cakes