There are Han and Dong people living in our village. For Han people, the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, while for Dong people, it is on the 14th day of July. Dong people call Mid-Autumn Festival Ancestor's Day.
No matter what day it is, adults will not let their children go out to play on this night.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, early in the morning, adults have to get up to burn incense and paper, and cook well-proportioned meat for the shrine. This kind of cooked meat, called "cutter head", is not allowed to be eaten secretly, and it needs to be sacrificed until the next day before it can be used for cooking.
Because our village grows rice and likes to put carp seedlings in the paddy field after transplanting, it is time to dry the paddy field during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so after breakfast, the family will go to catch fish in the field.
Every holiday, our breakfast there is camellia oleifera, which is to fry dry glutinous rice until crisp, then take it out, cook a soup with Chili and tea, and mix some leftovers with fried glutinous rice.
It's almost noon, when the fish is caught, we start to cut the fish and eat fish in sour soup or fish offal at noon. The inedible fish is salted with a lot of salt and kept as pickled fish (our specialty).
After lunch, I started killing chickens and ducks. Then the family got busy and began to cook a big dinner.
After dinner, I went outside to burn paper and incense for my dead relatives.