The Mid-Autumn festival customs

A month, offering

Offering to the moon is a very ancient custom, the essence is a kind of worship to the moon in ancient times, in most parts of Our country, the Mid-Autumn Festival every year to prepare sacrifices, the whole family worship the moon in turn.

See the moon

Appreciating the moon evolved from offering to the moon, from serious sacrifice to relaxed leisure, derived from the goddess of the moon, osmanthus trees on the moon and other classic stories. In ancient China, moon appreciation first appeared in the Wei and Jin dynasties. Since the Tang Dynasty, moon appreciation has become a popular trend, and moon appreciation has become a kind of people's sustenance and yearning for a better life.

Eat moon cakes

Eating mooncakes has become an essential custom throughout China to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, when people eat mooncakes to show "reunion". Moon cakes, also known as moon group, harvest cake, palace cake, reunion cake, is the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival worship moon god offerings. Moon cakes were originally used to offer sacrifices to the moon god. Later, people gradually regard moon appreciation and moon cakes as a symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize reunion, and people regard them as festival food. They are often used to offer sacrifices to the moon and give gifts to relatives and friends.

Play lanterns

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three lantern festivals in China, mainly between families and children. Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns, more concentrated in the south. For example, at the Foshan Autumn Color Fair, there are all kinds of lanterns: sesame lamp, eggshell lamp, planer lamp, straw lamp, fish scale lamp, rice husk lamp, melon seed lamp, birds and animals flower and tree lamp, etc.

 Guess lantern riddles

From ancient times began to spread characteristic activities. August 15, folk to hang lanterns, fireworks, and then have a good riddle written on the note, posted on the colorful lanterns for people to guess, many people respond, and then riddles become an indispensable Mid-Autumn Festival program.

Sweet-scented osmanthus wine and cake

Osmanthus flowers bloom from September to early October every year, which is the period of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, people often drink osmanthus wine and taste some cakes made by osmanthus while appreciating the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Dance fire dragon

Fire dragon dance is the most traditional custom of Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival. Since the 14th night of the 8th lunar month every year, the great Hang area of Causeway Bay holds a grand fire dragon dance for three consecutive nights. The dragon is more than 70 meters long, with 32 sections of pearl grass dragon body, filled with longevity incense. On the night of the pageant, the streets and alleys of this district are full of winding and undulating fire dragons dancing merrily under the lamplight and dragon drum music, which is very lively.