Can anyone tell me about the customs of the Mid Autumn Festival in the light

In my hometown, the Mid-Autumn Festival is called August and a half. In the year, in addition to the Spring Festival, August and a half are the most important festivals. In the countryside, after half August, every household has to wrap cakes, which means reunion.

In addition to traditional snacks, there is also a custom that every household has to hold a moon worship ceremony. Before August 15, people go to the market to buy apples, lotus roots, water chestnuts, chicken heads and other fruits and firecrackers, and at night put a table in the middle of their yard to pay homage to the moon and pray for the health and safety of their families, good weather and good harvest. ‍‍

Listen to the Mid-Autumn Festival party, watch the moon, eat reunion dinner, eat snails, and eat moon cakes.

Tide watching, this habit appears in Zhejiang, Zhejiang has a famous river called Qiantang River, Qiantang River will have a big tide every day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so many people will watch the tide on this day, so this area tide watching has become a custom on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The whole family has a big reunion dinner like a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The mooncakes are eaten less, and they are too sweet and greasy.

Enjoy the flowers, the moon and the autumn fragrance.

Taste oranges, cakes, and delicacies.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Reunion Festival, all activities or customs are around the theme of the moon, the customs that impress people the most are the Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion to eat moon cakes, in addition to this, there are also moon sacrifices, moon appreciation, moon worship, osmanthus flowers, offering free children, eating osmanthus wine and other moon-related customs. Worship to the full moon, pray for the safety of relatives in heaven, appreciate the bright moon in the sky, feel that she is so bright, she is so crystalline, put the moon cakes in the moonlight, not only for but also with the master of the child, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, taste the osmanthus wine, have a dream of reunion, I wish to step early in the toad osmanthus, climb the fairy laurel, life will always be as mellow as the moon, get Chang'e's care, Wu Gang's protection, and enjoy the happiness of the bright moon. ‍‍

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival set up by ancient people according to myths and legends to worship the hungry fairy, the general sacrifices are mainly based on vegetarian fruits, such as apples, bananas, grapes, peanuts, moon cakes, etc. according to their actual situation. ‍‍

The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are different due to different regions and different beliefs, so the customs are different from place to place. Our customs here are: visit relatives and friends before the festival and exchange feelings.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, set up a table in the courtyard, burn incense, offer fruits, moon cakes, and adjust the rain smoothly in the future, and the country and the people are safe. Eat moon cakes, live a sweet life, and join the family. Celebrate the harvest. ‍‍

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is necessary to worship the moon god, set up incense tables, and put moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other offerings, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable, and watermelons should be cut into lotus shapes. It is very important to worship the moon in turn, and then have the housewife cut the moon cakes according to the population of the family. ‍‍

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the Miao family, as the "singing and dancing elves", will gather the whole family in the open space of the mountains and forests, where they sing and dance, and hold the "moon jumping" activity. In the ancient legend of the Miao people, "Moon" is a loyal, honest, hardworking and brave young man. There was a young and beautiful girl named "Shui Qing", who rejected ninety-nine young men from ninety-nine states who proposed to her, but fell deeply in love with the moon.

After experiencing all the tribulations created by the sun, Shui Qing is finally happily united with the moon. In order to commemorate this touching love story, the Miao compatriots will hold a "moon jumping" activity every year. Young men and women of the Miao nationality also look for their sweethearts when they "jump to the moon", pour out their love, and express their love and admiration, saying that they want to be like the water and the moon, their hearts are pure and bright, and they will always be white-headed. ‍‍

Each region has its own unique folk customs, but the common custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the family reunion, August 15, the full moon, rural people pay attention to the full moon reunion, on this day, even if the children and grandchildren who have been separated from the family, must also return to their parents' house. The meaning of watermelon and moon cakes is similar, both have the meaning of reunion, after the monthly offering, watermelon and moon cakes must be eaten by the whole family.

At my house, the Mid-Autumn Festival is to go home to get moon cakes to worship the ancestors, and then everyone has a reunion dinner together, eats moon cakes, and admires the moon.

If you are in the north, eat dumplings, eat moon cakes, go back to your parents' home, and give moon cakes to your elders.

I remember when I was a child, every household made some osmanthus rice cakes and gave them to relatives and friends, and in the evening, a square table was set up at the door, and some were placed on the table, offerings, moon cakes, cakes, candy, peanuts, candles and incense, also called moon worship, and then a basin of water, put down the mirror, facing the moon, you can see the color of the moon, half red, half blue, colorful, when I was a child, I felt very strange, I felt very strange. But not anymore. It is to send moon cakes, and in the evening, go to the park and look at the moon.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as August 15. On this day, I wish the whole family to use the moon cake circle to symbolize the delicate moon in the sky, and the sky is full of stars around the moon. I wish the whole family happiness! If you don't believe it, please taste the moon cakes on this day, watch the moon slowly grow from nothing to round, without mutilation, and the stars sometimes twinkle and blink; sometimes smile and say hello to the world; Sometimes hidden; Sometimes mischievously teasing partners.

Every few days, the peak season of moon cakes, the days with the most output, the fastest sales. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the traditional festival, is also a national unified holiday festival. It is to let the children honor their parents, the whole family has a happy festival, let the busy people go home to visit their parents and elders, especially the lonely elderly, let the elderly have a child and the whole family to spend this annual reunion festival to give the opportunity to see if you are thinking about the parenting grace of your parents this year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, after this night and the old year, who will you spend the traditional festival with this year?

Whenever this festival is over, our whole family (children and sisters) go to accompany the elderly to eat, the elderly do not need any gifts, as long as they happily discuss shopping, buy groceries, cooperate in cooking, and happily taste their respective crafts, so that adults are not lonely. There are differences in the customs of the fifteen places in various places, and there is one thing in common at night, each eating moon cakes and looking at the beautiful scenery in the sky. I yearn for this day every year, and I have the wish of this time every day. ‍‍

The most important thing for the Mid-Autumn Festival is to reunite with the whole family, no matter where you are at the end of the earth, you have to go home for the holiday.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family will buy moon cakes and invite a large family to sit together for a reunion dinner. If the home is in the countryside, this table will be placed in the courtyard outside the house. The huge moon is in the sky, and the family chats happily while eating moon cakes.

Mid-Autumn Festival Cultural Customs:

1. Moon viewing. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and worshipping the moon is an important custom of the festival. In ancient times, the emperors had a social system of sacrificing the moon in spring and the moon in autumn, and the people also had the wind of the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrificing the moon.

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, people put out fruits and enjoy the moon and talk.

2. Burn the lamp. The Mid-Autumn Festival night light is tied to the bamboo pole with a rope, erected on the eaves or terrace, stared at or built into a zigzag or various shapes with a small lamp, and hung in the height of the house, commonly known as the 'tree Mid-Autumn Festival' or 'vertical Mid-Autumn Festival'.

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 love stories are also spread in these activities when they return, so the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles have also been derived from a form of love between men and women.

4. Eat moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing and eating moon cakes are a necessary custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of China, as the saying goes: "August 15 is full, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet". In ancient times, it was just a snack food.

Later, people gradually combined moon viewing with moon cakes, implying family reunion and longing. At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift for friends to connect with each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

5. Osmanthus appreciation.

Osmanthus has the reputation of "nine miles of incense", and it is a traditional precious flower and tree that our people love very much. Since ancient times, people regard osmanthus and its fruits as "heavenly spirits", as a symbol of sublime, beautiful and auspicious. Therefore, people call good children and grandchildren "Guizi Lansun"; The Moon Palace is called "Gui Palace", and "Gui Lu" is used as a metaphor for the moon.

It is even more interesting to enjoy osmanthus in the Mid-Autumn Festival, because osmanthus carries people's pursuit and praise of sweet life.

6. Drink osmanthus wine.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also the custom of drinking osmanthus wine. Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the bursts of cinnamon, think of Wu Gang cutting cinnamon, drink a glass of osmanthus nectar wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family, gather together, has become the enjoyment of the festival. It can be seen that the era of drinking osmanthus wine in China is quite long.