China has a vast geographical area, a large population and different customs. The Mid-Autumn Festival is also celebrated in a variety of ways with strong local characteristics. Some places have also formed many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs. Besides enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are Hong Kong's dancing dragon, Anhui's piling pagoda, Guangzhou's Mid-Autumn Festival, Jinjiang's burning tower boy, Suzhou Shihu's watching the moon, Dai's Yue Bai, Miao's jumping on the moon, Dong's stealing moon dishes and Gaoshan's holding dance. Fujian-Pucheng, women have to cross Nanpu Bridge during the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to live longer. In Jianning, hanging lanterns in mid-autumn night is a good omen for asking for children from the moon palace. People in Shanghang County celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of their children are invited to visit their parents when they are in Yue Bai. When Longyan people eat moon cakes, parents will dig out round cakes with a diameter of two or three inches in the center for their elders to eat, which means that the secret can't be told to the younger generation. This custom stems from the legend that moon cakes contain anti-yuan killing messages. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jinmen, Yue Bai should pay homage to God. Guangdong-There is a custom of Yue Bai in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, mainly for women and children, and there is a common saying that "men don't have a full moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves". In the evening, when the bright moon rises, women set up a case in the yard and on the balcony to pray. Silver candles are burning high, cigarettes are lingering, and the table is filled with good fruits and cakes as a sacrifice. There is also the custom of eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the local area. There is a common saying in Chaoshan: "The river is opposite to the mouth, and the taro is eaten." In August, it is the harvest season of taro, and farmers are used to worshipping their ancestors with taro. This is certainly related to farming, but there is also a popular folk legend: in 1279, Mongolian nobles destroyed the Southern Song Dynasty and established the Yuan Dynasty, which brutally ruled the Han people. Ma Fa defended Chaozhou against Yuan Dynasty. After the city was broken, the people were massacred. In order not to forget the suffering of Hu people's rule, later generations took taro as a homonym with "Hu tou" and it looked like a human head, so as to pay homage to their ancestors, which has been passed down from generation to generation and still exists today. Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou-There is an interesting traditional custom in Guangzhou called "Mid-Autumn Festival in Trees". Every Mid-Autumn Festival, families should tie lanterns with bamboo strips. The lanterns have various beginnings, not fruit lanterns, but also birds, animals, fish and insects, and can also be built into word lanterns. At night, candles are burned in the lamps, and many small lamps are connected below and tied to bamboo poles with ropes. Then insert bamboo poles in the high places of the house, such as platforms, roofs or tall trees. At night, the lights in the city, such as stars, compete with the bright moon in the sky to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also called "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". The folk customs in the south of the Yangtze River are also varied during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be in the market when cinnamon is fragrant, fat but not greasy, and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. The beauty goes without saying. "Guijiang", named after Qu Yuan's "Songs of Chu"? Shaosi life ","aid the north to close and drink cinnamon pulp ". Cinnamomum cassia pulp, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Women in the south of the Yangtze River are skillful in turning the chanting in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and traveling in the market is called "walking on the moon". Nanjing —— In the early Ming Dynasty, there was the Moon Tower and the Moon Bridge in Nanjing. In the Qing Dynasty, the Moon Tower was built under Lion Mountain, all of which were for people to enjoy the moon, and those who played the Moon Bridge were the most. When the bright moon is hanging high, people go to the moon tower and play the moon bridge together, taking pleasure in seeing the jade rabbit. "Playing Moon Bridge" is located in Qinhuai River, Confucius Temple, next to the famous prostitute Ma Xianglan's mansion. On this night, scholars gathered at the bridge to play flute and sing, reminiscing about Niuzhu's playing with the moon and writing poems to the moon, so it was called Playing Moon Bridge. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, it gradually declined, and later generations had a poem: "The romantic southern song has been sold out, leaving the west wind with a long slab bridge, but I remember sitting on the Jade Man Bridge and teaching the flute in the moonlight." Long Banqiao, the original Moon Bridge. In recent years, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing has been renovated, restored some pavilions in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and dredged rivers. Until the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can enjoy the fun of playing the moon together. Jiangsu Province-Wuxi County will burn incense in the mid-autumn night. There is gauze and silk around the incense bucket, and the scenery in the moon palace is painted. There are also incense sticks woven with thread incense, with paper kuixing and colorful banners inserted on them. Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is accompanied by osmanthus honey wine. On the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival in Ji 'an County, Jiangxi Province, every village burns crocks with straw. After the crock is red, put the vinegar in it. At this time, there will be a fragrance floating all over the village. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xincheng County, grass lanterns are hung from the night of August 11th until August 17th. On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan, Anhui Province, children built a hollow pagoda with bricks. Decorations such as curtains and plaques are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower to display all kinds of utensils to worship the "tower god". At night, lights and candles are lit inside and outside. Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers. The Mid-Autumn Festival cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked and then picked up to hit the stone, making a loud noise and having the custom of swimming in the dragon. A fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense sticks inserted in it. When you visit the dragon, there are gongs and drums teams, which travel around the villages before being sent to the river. Sichuan Province-In addition to eating moon cakes, we also have to beat, kill ducks, eat sesame cakes and honey cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate. There are also children who put incense on grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "dancing meteor balls". The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County is called "Watching the Meeting" for offering sacrifices to the land gods and performing zaju, vocal music and cultural relics. Farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province, offer sacrifices to the God of Earth Valley on August 15th, which is called "Young Miao Society". Zhucheng, Linyi, Jimo and other places have to pay homage to their ancestors in addition to the moon. Landlords in guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Postal City also entertain tenants in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival eats a festive food called "Wheat Arrow". Shanxi Province-Lu 'an hosted a banquet for his son-in-law in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Datong county calls moon cakes reunion cakes, and it is the custom to keep vigil in mid-autumn night. Wanquan County, Hebei Province, called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day", and there were pictures of Taiyin Xingjun and Guandi reading the Spring and Autumn Festival at night on moonlight paper. Hejian county people think that the mid-autumn rain is bitter rain. If it rains on the Mid-Autumn Festival, local people think that vegetables must taste bad. Shaanxi Province-Xixiang County Mid-autumn night, men went boating on the cliff, and women arranged a good banquet. No matter rich or poor, you must eat watermelon. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are drummers blowing drums along the door to ask for money. In Luochuan County, parents lead students to bring gifts for their husbands, and lunch is more than school dinners. Burning towers on Mid-Autumn Night is also popular in some places. Towers vary in height from 1 to 3 meters, and are mostly made of broken tiles. Large towers are also made of bricks, accounting for about 1/4 of the tower height, and then stacked with tiles, leaving a tower mouth at the top for fuel delivery. In the Mid-Autumn Festival night, it will be ignited and burned. The fuel is wood, bamboo, chaff, etc. When the fire is prosperous, rosin powder will be poured to cheer, which is very spectacular. There are also folk regulations for burning pagodas. Whoever burns the pagodas to a full house will win, and those who fail or collapse during the burning process will lose. The winner will be awarded colorful flags, bonuses or prizes by the host. It is said that burning the tower was also the origin of the Han people's rebellion against the cruel rulers at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the Mid-Autumn Uprising. "Divination" is an interesting activity in the Mid-Autumn Night. After incantations and ceremonies, the deities descended can be manifested, including the table deity, the moon goddess, the Eight Immortals and the basket deity (who is a goddess). "Listening to incense" is an ancient Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Taiwan Province. Women burn incense and pray in front of the gods enshrined at home, indicating what they want to predict (such as feelings, wealth, etc.). After asking for instructions about the direction they should go after going out, they will burn incense and go out. Anyone who hears all the conversations and singing on the road can predict what they have asked, and then ask God whether the answer is so with a cup. If the answer is no, they will ask God if it is. Unmarried girls also have the custom of stealing vegetables or onions from other people's gardens on Mid-Autumn Night. If they succeed, it means that she will get beautiful love.

when will there be a bright moon?

ask the sky for wine.

I don't know the Imperial Palace,

What year is this evening?

I want to go home by the wind,

I'm afraid of a beautiful building,

it's too cold at the top.

dance to find out the shadow,

what is it like on earth!

turn to Zhuge, low-lying households,

take photos without sleep.

There should be no hate.

Why should we be reconciled?

people have joys and sorrows,

the moon is full of rain or shine,

this matter is never complete.

I wish you a long life,

a thousand miles away.

jathyapple on August 15th by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty

The full moon flies in the mirror and returns to the heart to fold the broadsword.

turn the tent and travel far away, and climb the laurel to the sky.

frost and snow are suspected in the waterway, and feathers are seen in the forest.

at this time, I look at the white rabbit, eager to count the autumn cents.

Tang Liu Yuxi's "Playing the Moon in Taoyuan on the 15th of August"

Seeing the moon in the dust is also idle, and the situation is between the immortals in the clear autumn.

the condensation is long and cold, and it stands on the highest mountain at this time.

Yun Feng can't afford the blue sky, and the Songshan Mountain grows in the water.

the group moves leisurely, and Gogoing is thousands of miles away.

Shaojun led me to the jade altar, and I invited the true fairy officer from afar.

the clouds want to move under the stars, and the sky is happy and the bones are cold.

Jin Xia Xin Xin gradually spread to the east, and the shadow of the wheel promoted the frequent hope of Judah.

It's hard to get back together when the scenery is perfect. He should be disappointed this year.

Tang Bai Juyi's "Looking at the Moon in the Pavilion on the Night of August 15th"

On the night of August 15th of last year, it was near the apricot garden by Qujiang Pool.

On the night of August 15th this year, in front of Songpu Shatou Water Museum.

where is Wangxiang in the northwest? See the full moon in the southeast.

yesterday, when the wind blew, no one would attend. Tonight, it's as clear as usual.

Song Mi Fei's Mid-Autumn Festival Looking Up at the Moon

The eyes are poor, the Huaihai River is full of silver, and the Wan Daohong is full of light to breed mussels and treasures.

if there are no moon-mending households in the sky, cassia twig will be damaged to the west wheel.