The festival origin of the Mid Autumn Festival customs in Chaoshan, the Mid Autumn Festival customs

There are two different sayings about eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival:

1. Legend has it that Tang Taizong distributed moon cakes to hundreds of officials to taste after the victory of the border conquest;

2. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people of the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and revolted one after another, but the officers and soldiers of the imperial court were heavily guarded, and it was very difficult to transmit the news. Chaoshan's Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are mainly derived from this theory.

It is said that it originated from the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors. It is recorded in the Book of Rites: "The Son of Heaven is the spring sunrise, the autumn sunset", and the sunset moon is to worship the moon, indicating that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to worship the moon and worship the moon.

Later, aristocratic officials and scholars followed suit, and gradually spread to the people.

Second, 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 Report".

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1. When the silver plate-like moon (commonly known as "Moon Niang") rises in the middle of the sky, young boys and girls dressed in festive costumes gather in front of the swing. According to the custom here, women can't swing but only **. The ones who can show their skills are the boys.

They compete for swings, and they compete to see who swings high and spins fast.

2. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan area, not only has the custom of eating moon cakes, but also gives moon cakes to each other, which promotes the development of Chaoshan moon cake making technology, from the initial home production to the development of special workshops, Chaoshan moon cakes are known as Chaoshan moon cakes and are famous all over the world; Yixi mooncakes, southern Jiangsu mooncakes and Guiyu mooncakes have long been famous, and they have become one of the five nationally famous mooncakes alongside Beijing-style mooncakes, Cantonese-style mooncakes, Suzhou-style mooncakes and Tianjin-style mooncakes.

3. In addition to worshipping the moon mother, some villages also burn watts and smoke piles. In the morning, after the children get up, they pick up tiles and bricks everywhere, and then carry, carry and carry them to the barn designated by the elders to gather together, and the experienced adults build these tiles and bricks into a hollow tower.

In the Chaoshan area. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be moon worship, moon appreciation, moon cakes, taro peeling, tower burning, and god viewing.

That must be eating moon cakes to enjoy the moon, and will go to put lanterns, and in some places will even have a reunion dinner.

There is the custom of visiting the moon and falling aunt, and there is also the custom of worshipping the moon, which is generally done by women and children.

The Mid-Autumn Festival customs in the Chaoshan region also have unique local characteristics. There is a proverb that says:"Men do not have a full moon, and women do not sacrifice to the inner stove", just in the woman"Moon worship"When the men make an appointment with a few friends, they go to the balcony or climb to a high place, put on the gongfu tea set, boil water to make tea, and taste moon cakes while tasting tea.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan area, not only has the custom of eating moon cakes, but also gives moon cakes to each other, which promotes the development of Chaoshan cake making technology, from the initial family production to the development of special workshop production, Chaoshan cake is known as Chaoshan moon cake and is famous in the world.

Yixi Mooncakes, Sunan Mooncakes and Guiyu Mooncakes have long been famous, and they have become one of the five nationally famous mooncakes along with Beijing-style mooncakes, Cantonese-style mooncakes, Suzhou-style mooncakes and Jin-style mooncakes.

After dinner that day, the women bathed and renewed their clothes, busily set up tables in front of the patio, gatehouse, and hall where they could see the moon mother, tied up the bed skirts embroidered with auspicious birds and rich flowers, and put the washed fruits, cloud cakes, and moon cakes on them; The man cut all kinds of mascots out of red paper and pasted them on cakes and fruits one by one.

After everything stopped, he lit red candles, burned high incense, and began to wait for Yueniang to ascend to the middle heaven.

After autumn, ripe pomelo, green pear, red pear, pineapple, banana, ringo, longan, star fruit, tomato, ox heart persimmon and so on compete to go on the market, and the dazzling array of fruits naturally become the best products for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Chinese Festival"Fruit Festival"、"Ramadan"。

How did you spend the Mid-Autumn Festival? Are there any special folklore?