Mid Autumn Festival customs in other Asian countries, and what are the customs of Mid Autumn Festiva

Worship the moon, admire the moon, worship the moon, eat moon cakes, appreciate osmanthus flowers, drink osmanthus wine and other customs.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals on a par with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and endured for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to reunite people, as a sustenance of missing hometown, missing relatives, praying for a good harvest and happiness, and becoming a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China.

Origin:

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the harvest season. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is:

The crops are ripe and autumn". In August, the Mid-Autumn Festival ripens crops and various fruits, and farmers take the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a festival in order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy.

"Mid-Autumn Festival" is the meaning of the middle of autumn, the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the middle month of autumn, and the fifteenth day is the middle day of this month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancients' "autumn newspaper".

South Korea calls the Mid-Autumn Festival the Autumn Festival, with a three-day holiday.

Due to the custom of Qiuxi to return to the hometown to worship the ancestors and sweep the tombs, Qiuxi has become the best day for family reunion. Koreans attach great importance to filial piety, and whether their children can go home to meet their parents and elders on the eve of autumn is an important criterion to measure whether their children are filial piety. Therefore, as the autumn season approaches, South Korea's highways become a sea of cars, and many people whose hometowns are in other places have to set off in the middle of the night, a landscape that is nicknamed the Great Nation Movement.

In Japan, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is known as the 15th Night or the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Japanese also have the custom of viewing the moon on this day, which is called Tsukimi in Japanese. Unlike the Chinese who eat mooncakes, the Japanese eat emi dumplings, called Tsukimi dumplings, when viewing the moon.

Thais call the Mid-Autumn Festival a moon prayer festival. According to Thai legend, when praying for the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the gods will bless the living beings.

On the day of the full moon festival, Sri Lanka has a national holiday. After arranging the delicacies in the morning, good men and women rushed to the temple or shrine to listen to the lectures and worship the moon.

Japanese people don't eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Japan, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is known as the "15th Night" or "Mid-Autumn Festival". The Japanese also have the custom of viewing the moon on this day, which is called Tsukimi in Japanese. Japan's custom of moon viewing** was introduced to Japan more than 1,000 years ago, and the custom of holding a banquet while viewing the moon began to appear in the local area, which is called the "moon viewing banquet".

Unlike the Chinese, who eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Japanese eat emi dumplings when they admire the moon, called "Tsukimi dumplings". Since this period coincides with the harvest season for various crops, various celebrations are held in Japanese people to express gratitude for nature's bounty. Although Japan abolished the lunar calendar after the Meiji Restoration and switched to the solar calendar, the custom of viewing the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival is still preserved throughout Japan, and some temples and shrines hold special moon-viewing parties during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

"It's all the time, and it's best to be in the new autumn. "The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. Many countries or regions in the world have also had the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the time, name, customs and activities have their own characteristics.

The Japanese Mid-Autumn Festival is called the "Full Moon Festival". There are two festivals, one on August 15 and one on September 13. The Japanese believe in the god of the moon, and on the day of the festival, the residents put on the quilts with national characteristics and look like ancient samurai, chant and shout, help the old and the young, and carry the shrine to the temple to make incense.

There are various food stalls around the temple for everyone to eat and drink, and there are folk ** families singing and dancing. The children go out into the field to collect wild grasses that symbolize good luck and decorate the doors of their homes and usher in happiness. In the evening, each family puts melons, fruits, rice dumplings, etc. to worship the moon god, and then share food, admire the moon, and listen to the old people tell myths and stories about the moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in North Korea is called the "Chomun Festival". It is also known as "Autumn Festival" and "Jiahua", and New Year's Day, cold food, and Dragon Boat Festival are listed as the four major folk festivals. On that day, they used muffins as a festival item, steamed food and fed each other.

The muffin is shaped like a half moon and is made of rice flour, filled with bean paste, corn meat, jujube paste, etc., and is named because it is padded with pine hair when steaming. Some also eat eight-treasure rice made with glutinous rice, pine nuts, chestnut meat, jujube paste, and honey. In the evening, while admiring the moon, the women perform tug-of-war, wrestling, and singing and dancing, and women often do swing competitions called "Brena".

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Thailand is called the "Moon Prayer Festival". On the night of the festival, each household makes an arch with sugar cane, and enshrines the portraits or statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Eight Immortals on the square table of the moon worship, and the offerings are mainly longevity peaches. According to Thai legend, it was Guanyin who ascended to the moon, and during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the eight immortals brought longevity peach to the Moon Palace to congratulate Guanyin on his birthday.

The Korean Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Autumn Evening". There are two days of statutory holidays, during which people exchange gifts and eat rice cakes. Rice cakes symbolize sincerity, love and filial piety, and express the atmosphere of family reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in India is called the "Bright Moon Festival". On a full moon night, young women stand on the backs of camels with five overlapping muddy canisters on their heads, slowly climbing the sand dunes and praying for a bountiful harvest and prosperity.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the United States is called the "Autumn Moon Festival". During the festival, families eat grapes, chestnuts, beans and other seasonal fruits and newly made foods.