The custom of Fuyang Mid-Autumn Festival
Touch autumn
Fuyang folk have the custom of touching autumn, in order to seek some good omen. Touching autumn is usually after dinner, in the dead of night, going to the fields to choose favorite melons and fruits. There are rules for touching autumn. You can't take baskets to the ground, you can only take them with your hands, you can't break vines, step on crops, and you can't pick them.
For farmers, on the night of August 15th, things in the fields were touched in autumn, instead of cursing, they felt happy. It is said that touching autumn will bring good luck to farmers and crops will grow better.
Appreciate the bright full moon
Appreciating the moon is a ceremony based on the old calendar. The calendar is determined according to the moon's surplus and deficiency, which is very different from the modern calendar. The days of appreciating the moon also change with different years. Mid-Autumn Festival, China has the custom of enjoying the moon since ancient times. It is recorded in the Book of Rites that the moon sets at dusk, that is, worshipping the moon god.
Put down the torch (Torch Festival)
Fuyang area calls Mid-Autumn Festival Torch Festival. In rural areas, Fuyang people have the custom of throwing torches during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Most of the participants are young people. On the night of August 15, the boys tied wheat straw and straw into a three-or four-foot handle and lit it in the ground. Numerous torches are strung together, wandering on the ridge like a dragon.
When the torch was about to burn out, the boys threw it into the night sky one after another, and suddenly the torch bloomed in the night sky like a flower, which was quite spectacular.
What to eat in Fuyang Mid-Autumn Festival?
Fermented rice wine dumplings
Solid jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour and homemade sweet wine can make delicious wine jiaozi. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, a bowl of jiaozi brewed with wine is not only delicious, but also represents the meaning of reunion, which is very suitable for eating in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Fuyang dagao
Anhui Fuyang pie is very famous. Mix fresh glutinous rice flour with white sugar, sesame, walnut kernel and peanut powder. Fuyang pie is sweet, soft and chewy. It is a traditional cake from snacks to pie in Fuyang. Therefore, this kind of cake is indispensable on the Mid-Autumn Festival table.
Steamed meat
The steamed meat in Fuyang is delicious. Fresh pork belly with steamed meat powder. Steamed meat is fat but not greasy, soft and salty, especially the flour on it is soft and waxy. Therefore, as Fuyang people, eating steamed meat in Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional dietary custom.