What other customs are there besides eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival?

Other customs of Mid-Autumn Festival besides eating moon cakes: offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, enjoying osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine, solve riddles on the lanterns, playing with lanterns, watching tides and dancing dragons.

1, sacrifice the moon and enjoy it.

It is an important custom to worship and praise the moon. Ancient emperors had a social system of offering sacrifices to the sun and the moon in spring, and people also had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, enjoying the moon has become one of the most important activities for people in the Mid-Autumn Festival. They sit and watch the moon with their family and friends, enjoy the coolness of autumn, and hope for reunion.

2. Enjoy osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine.

People often eat all kinds of food made of sweet-scented osmanthus, especially cakes and sweets. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at osmanthus in the middle of the month, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine have become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival.

Step 3 solve the riddle on the lantern

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many lanterns hanging in public places, and people get together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns. Because it is an activity that most young people like, there are also many love stories in these activities.

Step 4 play with lanterns

Playing with lights is mainly between family and children. Children like to make grapefruit lanterns, pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival. They cut the pulp of grapefruit, pumpkin or orange, carve simple patterns, and then light candles inside. Although simple, it is very popular.

Step 5 observe the tides

"Know the jade rabbit is very round, September has frost cold. Send a message to close the door and close the key, and the night tide stays in the moon. " This is "Watching Tide on August 15th" written by Su Shi. In ancient times, Zhejiang Mid-Autumn Festival was another Mid-Autumn Festival activity besides watching the moon.

6.dancing dragon

Dragon dancing is the most traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. From the evening of the 14th August of the lunar calendar every year, a grand dragon dance has been held in the Tai Hang area of Causeway Bay for three consecutive nights. The fire dragon is more than 70 meters long, and it is tied into 32 dragon bodies with pearl grass, which is full of longevity fragrance.