The traditions of the Mid Autumn Festival, what are the traditions of the Mid Autumn Festival

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After so many years of the Mid-Autumn Festival, do you know the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had the traditions of worshiping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and playing with rabbits, which have been passed down to this day and endured for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival, which originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the autumn and evening moon festivals in ancient times.

The origin 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., the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the celestial worship and evolved from the autumn and evening moon sacrifice in ancient times.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds are scarce and the fog is few, the moonlight is bright and bright, in addition to the folk to hold a series of activities such as moon appreciation, moon worship, eating moon cakes to bless reunion, etc., there are also grass dragon dances, pagodas and other activities in some places.

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 main folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The main folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: moon appreciation, moon worship, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, playing with lanterns, and worshipping the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, known as the four traditional festivals in China together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, which 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 customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

1. Moon viewing. The custom of moon viewing is to worship the moon, which makes the serious sacrifice into a relaxed pleasure. People will bring their families and mooncakes to enjoy the moonlight in the courtyard, talking, laughing and playing.

2. Appreciate osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the osmanthus flowers bloom just right at this time. People often eat moon cakes to enjoy osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and will also eat various foods made of osmanthus flowers, such as osmanthus cakes.

3. Guess the lantern riddle.

On the night of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns are hung in public places, and people gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time, love stories are also spread in these activities, so the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles have also been derived from a form of love between men and women.

The traditional folk customs of Wudi, the Mid-Autumn Festival night women dress up and travel, stepping on the moon and dawning, which is called "walking the moon". In the past, women in Jiangsu had to walk the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Generally, they play together under the moon, or visit each other, or worship the Buddha Nunnery, or hold cultural and artistic activities.

Traditional customs refer to the social customs that people gradually form in social life, are consolidated from historical inheritance, have stable social customs and behavioral customs, and have been closely integrated with national emotions and social psychology, and have become people's conscious or unconscious code of conduct. The content of traditional customs is complex, and the traditional customs that exist in a society are broadly divided into two parts:

First, it is left over from history, has a long history, a long era, and has the characteristics of social, collective, and national characteristics. Different regions, different collectives, and different ethnic groups all have different traditional customs, such as the folk customs of different ethnic groups. Second, it is produced by adapting to the actual social and historical conditions, such as the new life customs advocated after the founding of New China.

The customs and traditions of the Mid-Autumn Festival include worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, lighting lanterns, guessing riddles, watching the tide, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, tree Mid-Autumn Festival, burning incense, etc.

1. Moon worship: Moon worship is a kind of worship activity of the ancients to the "moon god". People worship the moon god on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, set up a large incense table, and put moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other offerings.

Under the moon, the "Moon God" tablet is placed in the direction of the moon, red candles are lit, and the whole family worships the moon in turn and prays for blessings. Worship the moon and admire the moon, and remember the moon, expressing people's good wishes.

2. Moon appreciation: It is said that the moon is the closest to the earth on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there is a custom of drinking and feasting to admire the moon from ancient times to the present.

3. Eat moon cakes: moon cakes are offerings to the moon god in ancient times, moon cakes symbolize reunion, and later people gradually take the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation and tasting moon cakes as a major symbol of family reunion.

4. Lighting lanterns: On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of lighting lamps to help the moonlight. Nowadays, there is still a custom of stacking towers with tiles to light lamps on the towers in the Huguang area. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of making lightboats.

5. Guessing riddles: The Mid-Autumn Festival full moon night will hang many lanterns in public places, and people gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time, love stories are also spread in these activities, so the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles have also been derived from a form of love between men and women.

6. Tide viewing: The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, in ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing in Zhejiang, the tide watching can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival event.

7. Appreciate osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine: People often eat moon cakes and enjoy osmanthus in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat various foods made of osmanthus, with cakes and candies being the most common. I will also drink a glass of osmanthus nectar wine to celebrate the sweetness of the family.

8. Tree Mid-Autumn Festival: In some places in Guangdong, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", that is, the meaning of erecting the lanterns high, so it is also called "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". With the assistance of their parents, the children use bamboo paper to tie rabbit lanterns, star fruit lanterns or square lanterns, hang them horizontally in short poles, and then erect them on high poles, hold them high, and the colorful lights shine, adding another scene to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The children compete with each other to see who can stand taller, erect more, and have the most elaborate lights.

9. Burn bucket incense: Jiangsu Mid-Autumn Festival night to burn bucket incense. The incense bucket is pasted with gauze around it, and the scenery of the Moon Palace is painted. There are also incense sticks made of incense, with paper stars and colorful flags inserted on them.

<>1. 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.

2. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, the custom of moon appreciation 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.

3. 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."

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 are workshops specializing in making moon cakes, and the production of moon cakes is becoming more and more refined, with exquisite fillings and beautiful appearances.

4. The folk customs in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the south of the Yangtze River are also diverse. Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat Jinling's famous dish osmanthus duck. "Osmanthus duck" should be marketed when the osmanthus is fragrant, fat but not greasy, delicious and delicious.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and China has always had the custom of admiring the moon and eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. So how much do you know about the Mid-Autumn Festival, let me give you a brief introduction to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from people's sacrifice to the moon and the worship of celestial phenomena in ancient times, and began to be popularized in the Han Dynasty, after which various forms of sacrifice and folk activities were formed. The Tang Dynasty became an officially recognized national festival. During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was officially set on the 15th day of August of the lunar calendar every year.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, "those who have a woman must return home" began to appear, representing the meaning of the league members. Today, there is a Mid-Autumn Festival to visit relatives and friends, and send moon biscuits and fruits to each other.

The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival have evolved from 19 customs throughout the country. They are: worshiping the moon, lighting the lamp, admiring the moon, chasing the moon, watching the tide, guessing riddles, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, tree Mid-Autumn Festival, playing Lu Zai, tying lanterns, playing with lanterns, burning incense, worshipping ancestors, dancing the fire dragon, listening to incense, burning towers, Mid-Autumn Festival banquet customs.

The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chang'e running to the moon, Wu Gang folding laurels, Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, moon cake uprising, etc. Among them, I will only introduce the mooncake uprising, because everyone should know about the other three. Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled against the Yuan, the officers and soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty searched very closely, and it was very difficult to transmit the news, so the military advisor Liu Bowen came up with a way to use moon cakes to convey the information of the uprising, because the moon cakes represent the fifteenth night of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

In this way, they were informed that on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rebels from all walks of life responded one by one.