In addition to eating moon cakes, what other Mid Autumn Festival customs are there?

The folk customs in the Jiangnan area during the Mid-Autumn Festival 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.

After drinking, you must eat a small sugar taro and pour cinnamon syrup, which is beautiful. "Cinnamon syrup", named after Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci Shao Si Ming" "Aiding the North and Drinking Cinnamon Syrup". Cinnamon syrup, a sugar osmanthus, picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival, pickled with sugar and sour plum.

Jiangnan women are skillful and turn the poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon together and call it "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and going out to the market is called "walking the moon". ‍

When the moon is full again, the Mid-Autumn Festival night to admire the moon, has been a thousand-year-old custom, but as Dalian people in another way to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival, has become a dream thing, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival to Xizhong Island to spend a beautiful flower and full moon night, is the latest custom of Dalian people. Sitting on the soft sand, drinking red wine, eating mooncakes, admiring the full moon, and listening to the sound of the waves, can you feel the comfort? Nishinaka Island in Wafangdian is worth a visit, and although it's not famous, it's not full of memorable places.

The sand here is extremely soft and comfortable to walk on barefoot. Spending the Mid-Autumn Festival on Nishinaka Island is a great way to reap the greatest joy with your family. During the day, take a stroll along the beach with your family and pick up fresh seafood.

At night, sit on the beach, eat delicious food, watch the full moon, and set off dazzling fireworks at will. ‍‍

It should be to watch the tide, and many people dare to go to the Qiantang River around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, "I know that the jade rabbit is very round, and it has been frosty and cold in September." The message is heavy on the key, and the night tide stays to look at the middle of the moon. This is the poem "Watching the Tide on August 15th" written by Su Shi, a great poet of the Song Dynasty.

In the ancient Zhejiang area, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing, the tide watching can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and there is a quite detailed description in the "Seven Hairs" of the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching was more prosperous.

Ming Zhu Tinghuan's "Supplementing the Old Things of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" also have records of watching the tide. The grand occasion of tide watching described in these two books shows that in the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching reached an unprecedented peak. ‍‍

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan, Anhui Province, children piled a hollow pagoda with bricks and tiles. The tower is hung with ornaments such as tent curtains and plaques, and a table is placed in front of the tower, and various utensils for worshiping the "tower god" are displayed. At night, the interior and exterior are lit with candles.

Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival children play Mid-Autumn Festival cannons. The Mid-Autumn Festival cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked and then picked up and hit on the stone, so that it makes a loud noise and has the custom of swimming fire dragon. The fire dragon is a dragon made of weighing grass, and there is an incense pillar on its body.

During the fire dragon swim, a gong and drum team travels with them, and after swimming through the villages, they are sent to the river. ‍‍

In Pucheng, Fujian, women have to cross the Nanpu Bridge during the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to live a long life. In Jianning, the Mid-Autumn Festival night is hung with lanterns as a good omen to ask for a child from the Moon Palace. The people of Shanghang County celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of the children invite the moon aunt when they worship the moon. When Longyan people eat moon cakes, parents will dig out the diameter in **.

The two- or three-inch round cake is for the elders to eat, which means that the secret things cannot be known to the younger generations. This custom originated from the legend that the moon cakes contained anti-Yuan killing messages. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Kinmen, we must worship the Heavenly Father. ‍‍

As soon as the autumn is cool, the street begins to waft the aroma of fried chestnuts with sugar, chestnuts are a must-eat snack in the Mid-Autumn Festival in our hometown. Chestnut has a sweet and cold taste, and has the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys and strengthening the tendons. It is most suitable for autumn consumption, and chestnuts are rich in soft dietary fiber, so diabetics can also taste it in moderation, and it is most suitable for the elderly and frail.

In addition to chestnuts can be used as snacks, they can also be used in dishes, famous dishes include chestnut duck, chestnut roast chicken, chestnut stewed chicken soup, etc., delicious at the same time, but also can completely give full play to the deliciousness of chestnuts, the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat healthy, chestnut dishes are indispensable. ‍‍

It is said that many places have the custom of eating water chestnut in the autumn festival, eating water chestnut on this day can make children grow smart and smart, most of the way to eat water chestnut is to cook water chestnut with water (or salt water), and then peel the shell as a snack to eat; You can also boil the shelled water chestnut and rice into salty white gruel, and after eating the sweet and greasy moon cakes, drink a bowl of water chestnut porridge, and remove a lot of greasy in the stomach on the spot. ‍‍

I remember it was said on the news that in Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province, on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, every village burned clay pots with straw. After the crockpot is red, add vinegar to it. At this time, the fragrance will fill the village.

When Xincheng County celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, grass lanterns are hung from the night of August 11 until August 17. ‍‍

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the same all over the country, and it is a new type of city, with little history. It's nothing more than eating moon cakes and hairy crabs, relatives have male elders with some wine, if you look at your mother's relatives, you will bring heavy gifts, as the saying goes, many people are not strange, after all, the Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to the Spring Festival reunion festival. ‍‍

I have a simple Mid-Autumn Festival here, and eating moon cakes is like a festival. It is lively until the autumn equinox, the autumn equinox worships the mountain, most places are Qingming worship mountain, and I have more places to worship the mountain on the autumn equinox.

The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival also include worshipping the moon, inviting the moon girl, hanging lanterns, walking through the Nanpu Bridge, admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, and appreciating osmanthus flowers. The details are as follows:

1. Sacrifice to the moon. The moon sacrifice is on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the sacrifice to the moon god expresses people's good wishes for the moon god to bless the world. According to tradition, men perform the salute and deacons assist in the worship of the moon.

The moon worship activity originated from the worship of the moon by the ancient people, and has a long history, and there was this sacrifice activity in the pre-Qin period. Originally, the "moon festival" was set on the day of the autumn equinox, and later it was fixed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

2. Worship the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. August 15 is in the middle of autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The ancient calendar of our country calls August in the middle of autumn "Mid-Autumn", so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival". August 15 is also known as the "Reunion Festival". Throughout the ages, people often use "full moon, lack of moon" to describe "joys and sorrows", and wanderers living in other places use the moon to express their affection.

3. Viewing lanterns.

Lantern is a traditional folk craft that originated in China, in ancient times, its main role was lighting, influenced by Chinese culture, in the Chinese area of Asia, many countries lanterns are also quite common items. The lantern is a product of ancient Chinese traditional culture, which has both life function and artistic characteristics. The lantern originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and spread throughout the people in the Song Dynasty.

The production of Chinese lanterns in the past dynasties is very particular and varied.

Fourth, enjoy osmanthus.

In addition to the moon viewing in the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will also think of osmanthus. Moreover, the working people of our country have also created many beautiful and beautiful myths and stories with the theme of osmanthus and the moon. In our country, 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 the children and grandchildren of the good "Gui Zilan Sun", and call the "Jinshi and the first" or the champion who has been admitted, call it "Toad Palace", call the Moon Palace "Gui Palace", and compare the moon with "Guilu".

In addition to admiring the moon and eating moon cakes, the Mid-Autumn Festival also has many different forms of traditional customs, all of which reflect people's infinite love for life and yearning for a better life. The Mid-Autumn Festival also has the saying of sacrificing the moon, which is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the sacrificial activities are mainly based on the moon, expressing people's good wishes to pray for the moon god to bless the world.

The moon festival originated from the worship of the moon in ancient times and has a long history. The "moon festival" was originally set on the day of the autumn equinox, and later on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Moon festivals vary from place to place.

The key to the Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship is to pay homage to the moon god, where the moonlight can illuminate, you can hold a moon sacrifice, if it is cloudy, you can place it in the azimuth of the moon to worship.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. According to ancient Chinese sayings, mid-August is autumn, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Mid-Autumn Festival". August 15 is also known as the "Reunion Festival".

Away from home, but also to the moon to express affection. The Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and worshipping the moon is an important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In ancient times, emperors had a social system of worshipping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn, and there was also the custom of sacrificing the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and many poets had moon poems in their famous works.

The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival also includes lanterns, which are also a traditional folk craft that originated in China. In ancient times, their main function was lighting. Influenced by Chinese culture, lanterns are also common in many countries with Chinese areas in Asia.

The lantern is a product of ancient Chinese traditional culture, with life functions and artistic characteristics. Lanterns originated in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, and spread to the people during the Song Dynasty. The lantern making of various Chinese dynasties was exquisite and varied.

Because of the prosperity of the society and the affluence of the economy, the scale of the events was quite large, and the crowd of people's lanterns, from the royal family and nobles, to the hawkers, all went out to enjoy the lanterns. In the Song Dynasty, this culture was vigorously promoted by the royal family, and it became another important historical stage in the development of lanterns.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a round festival, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, on this day people will reunite with their families, there is the custom of eating moon cakes, there will also be the custom of enjoying the moon, and at the same time, they will also fight together to watch the fireworks and watch the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of reunion, where everyone who sells noodles at home will gather together to eat mooncakes, and of course they will buy some fruits, and everyone will eat dumplings in the evening.

Learn a lot of cultural customs, but also to worship the moon, but also to reunite with the family, to drink osmanthus wine, but also to enjoy osmanthus together, the folk customs are very many.

Learned a lot. The Mid-Autumn Festival has many nicknames, and it is also a harvest season, in which people will enjoy osmanthus flowers and drink osmanthus wine.