What are the main customs of the Mid Autumn Festival, and what are the customs of the Mid Autumn Fes

Moon. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, China has the custom of admiring the moon since ancient times, and the "Book of Rites" records the "autumn twilight and sunset", that is, worshipping the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night was held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon.

Set up a large incense table, put on moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut into lotus shapes.

In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular for moon viewing and playing with the moon. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation wind was more prosperous, according to the "Tokyo Menghualu" record: "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the noble family knotted the pavilion, and the people competed to occupy the restaurant to play the moon."

Every day, all the shops and restaurants in the capital have to re-decorate the façade, the archway is tied with silk and hung colors, ** fresh fruits and refined food, the night market is very lively, the people go up to the platform more, some rich families enjoy the moon on their own pavilions, and put food or arrange family banquets, reunite their children, and enjoy the moon together.

After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the custom of admiring the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is still the same, and many places have formed special customs such as burning bucket incense, tree Mid-Autumn Festival, lighting tower lamps, putting sky lanterns, walking the moon, and dancing the fire dragon.

Eat mooncakes. The urban and rural masses in China have the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, as the saying goes: "August 15 is full, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet."

Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god, and the word "moon cake" was first seen in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu", at that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like a rhombic cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing with the tasting of moon cakes, which symbolized family reunion.

Mooncakes were originally made at home, and the practice of mooncakes was recorded in the "Sui Garden Food List" by Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty. In modern times, there is a workshop specializing in the production of moon cakes, the production of moon cakes is more and more refined, the filling is exquisite, the appearance is beautiful, and there are various exquisite patterns printed on the outside of the moon cakes, such as "Chang'e running to the moon", "Milky Way Night Moon", "Three Pools Printing the Moon" and so on. With the full moon of the reunion of the people, with the cake of the round of the trillion people's eternal life, with the moon cake to send the hometown, miss the feelings of relatives, pray for a good harvest and happiness, have become the wishes of people all over the world, moon cakes are also used as gifts to relatives and friends, contact feelings.

China has a vast geographical area, a large population, and different customs, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is also diverse, with strong local characteristics. In some places, many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs have also been formed. In addition to admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, and eating moon cakes, there are also the fire dragon dance in Hong Kong, the pile pagoda in Anhui, the Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, the burning tower in Jinjiang, the moon in Suzhou Shihu, the moon worship of the Dai people, the moon jumping of the Miao people, the moon stealing vegetables of the Dong people, and the ball dance of the Gaoshan people.

Dragon boat racing, eating moon cakes, moon appreciation, moon worship, playing with lanterns, fire dragon dance.

Eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon The whole family celebrates the festival together.

Do you know what customs are there during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Moonlight Festival, the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Moon Niang Festival, the Moon Festival, the Reunion Festival, etc., is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the autumn and evening moon festivals in ancient times. Originally, the festival of the "Moon Festival" was on the day of the "autumn equinox", the 24th solar term of the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was transferred to the 15th day of August of the summer calendar (lunar calendar), and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 16th day of August of the summer calendar.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, was stereotyped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, and most of the festival elements contained in it have ancient origins. 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 is a remnant of the ancient celestial worship - the custom of respecting the moon. In the "autumn equinox" of the 24 solar terms, it is the ancient "moon festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the traditional "moon festival". In traditional culture, the moon, like the sun, these two alternating celestial bodies became the object of worship of the ancestors.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the sacrifice of the ancients to the moon, and is the remnant and derivation of the custom of sacrificing the moon.

Moon worship. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dai people in Yunnan prevail in the custom of "worshiping the moon". According to Dai legend, the moon was changed by the emperor's third son, Yanjian.

Yan Jian is a brave and strong young man, he has led the Dai people to defeat the enemy, won the love of the Dai villagers. Later, after his unfortunate death, he turned into the moon and rose to the sky, continuing to emit soft moonlight, bringing light to the Dai people in the darkness.

Beijing's "Moon Temple" was built for the royal moon sacrifice during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Whenever the moon rises in the Mid-Autumn Festival, set up a case in the open air, and offer moon cakes, pomegranates, dates and other melons and fruits on the table. Nowadays, the moon worship activities have been replaced by large-scale and colorful mass moon viewing and amusement activities.

Bo cake. Originated in Quanzhou, it is a unique Mid-Autumn Festival traditional activity in southern Fujian for hundreds of years, a unique moon cake culture, and a kind of inheritance of history. In recent years, it has spread to Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Kinmen and other southern Fujian regions.

Bo cake is rumored to have been created by the national hero Zheng Chenggong. Back then, in order to inspire homesick soldiers, Zheng Chenggong ordered his subordinates to invent this game. After hundreds of years of changes, it has become a unique Mid-Autumn Festival culture.

With the increasing frequency of cross-strait exchanges, the Bo cake culture has gradually spread to Taiwan and has become a Mid-Autumn Festival cultural activity loved by the Taiwanese people.

Most people are willing to believe that the champion of Bo will always have a good luck in a year, which is of course because of the people's emotional sustenance poured into the cake activities, especially in Xiamen. Therefore, Hokkien people always attach great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, and even have the saying of "small Spring Festival, big Mid-Autumn Festival".

The traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are:1. Worship the moon. As one of the important rituals of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon worship has gradually evolved into a folk moon appreciation and moon worship activity, and has also become the main form of modern people's desire to reunite and express their good wishes for life.

12. Play with lanterns. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty's "Wulin Old Things", it was recorded that the Mid-Autumn Festival night customs were 'putting a little red light into the river to drift and play.' Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns, mostly concentrated in the south. As mentioned above, there are all kinds of colorful lanterns in Foshan, which is amazing.

13. Drink osmanthus wine. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk have the custom of drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the bright moon, smelling the bursts of cinnamon, thinking of Wu Gang cutting cinnamon, drinking a glass of osmanthus nectar wine, celebrating the sweetness of the family, gathering together, has become a festival enjoyment.