First, Hong Kong people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival.
1, turn on the light
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, sogou, Taikoo and other major squares in Hong Kong will launch various activities accordingly, including certain discounts on shopping on that day. The lights will be on in the big park. The venue of the Lantern Festival is full of colorful lanterns, and the festive atmosphere is instantly ignited.
In Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, Mid-Autumn Festival activities will be held on Mid-Autumn Festival night, and trees will be erected, which means that lanterns will be erected high. With the help of their parents, children make rabbit lanterns, carambola lanterns or square lanterns out of bamboo paper, hang them horizontally on short poles and then stand on high poles. They are high-tech and colorful, adding another scenery to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Children often compete with each other to see who stands tall, much taller and has the most exquisite lighting.
2, put the sky lanterns
In addition, there are sky lanterns, that is, Kongming lanterns, which are made of paper and tied into large lanterns. Burning candles under the lamp, the hot air rises, making the lamp fly in the air, making people laugh and chase. In the former New Territories, most people were farmers, and August 15 was far from a celebration day. In the Mid-Autumn Festival before harvesting rice fields, most people in Hong Kong in the New Territories set off lanterns to pray.
Starting from 20 10, the Hong Kong government began to appeal to the public not to leave lanterns lying around, because the fire was so strong that it affected the flight of airplanes. If a fire is caused by the discharge of sky lanterns, or the discharge of sky lanterns with a width of more than 2 meters, the responsible person may be prosecuted.
Step 3 eat iced moon cakes
In the 1980s, there were frosted moon cakes for sale in the Hong Kong market, but only one cake shop was launched at that time. Call? Ice moon cakes? Mainly against the traditional way of making moon cakes. Because traditional moon cakes are all made of syrup and the color is golden yellow. Part of the raw material of the moon cake with ice skin is glutinous rice. The moon cake is white in appearance and put in the freezer. When it is sold, it is put in the freezer.
Compared with traditional moon cakes, the ice-covered moon cakes have lower oil content and sugar content and are healthier. There is also the uniqueness of the ice-covered moon cakes. Do you care about one? Ice? Words, give a refreshing feeling, make the traditional moon cake greasy stomach get rid of. A good moon cake with ice skin is as smooth as ice, and it is still soft after being refrigerated in the refrigerator for one night. It has been carefully cut, and the filling on the cut surface is as smooth as a mirror.
Second, the custom of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival in different regions.
In Sichuan province, in addition to eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, people also eat cakes, ducks, sesame cakes and honey cakes. In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate. There are also children who burn incense on grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "dancing meteor ball" The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County is called "Kanhui", offering sacrifices to the land gods and playing zaju, vocal music and cultural relics.
In the north, farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province offered sacrifices to the god of land valley on August 15, 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 their tenants in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival eats a kind of holiday food called "Wheat Arrow". Banquet for son-in-law at Mid-Autumn Festival in Lu 'an, Shanxi. Datong county calls moon cakes reunion cakes, and it is a custom to keep vigil on Mid-Autumn Festival night.
Wanquan County, Hebei Province calls Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day", and there are pictures of Taiyin Xing Jun and Guandi reading Spring and Autumn at night on moonlight paper. Hejian county people think that the rain in Mid-Autumn Festival is bitter rain. If it rains in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local people think that vegetables must be terrible.
On the Mid-Autumn Festival night in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, men row boats and climb cliffs, while women set up banquets. No matter rich or poor, people should eat watermelons. On Mid-Autumn Festival, drummers blow drums along the door to ask for money. In Luochuan county, parents lead students to bring gifts to their husbands, and there are more lunches than school dinners.
Some places have also formed many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs. In addition to enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are dragon dances in Hong Kong, piling towers in Anhui, Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, burning towers in Jinjiang, moon-watching in Shihu, Suzhou, moon-dancing by Dai and Miao, moon-stealing dishes by Dong and dancing by Gaoshan people.
Third, Mid-Autumn Festival menu.
Proud as a peacock fish
Ingredients: a grass carp, peas, corn and carrots.
Practice: Grass carp is washed and scraped off the black film in its belly, and a flower knife is cut out with scissors or a knife. Fish is preserved with Shao wine and pepper. The fish is put in the steamer. Mix chopped pepper, salt, sugar, minced leek, minced garlic, green beans and Jiang Mo into a paste. Then spread the prepared sauce evenly on the fish. Put it into the steamer, and pay attention to the fact that the water in the steamer must be hot water to cook, otherwise the fish steamed in cold water will smell fishy, cover it and steam it over high fire. After SAIC, steam on low heat for 8 minutes.
Shen Si pork tripe soup
Ingredients: pork tripe, Poria, dried Chinese yam, lotus seeds, coix seed, Euryale seed and onion.
Practice: Use scissors to cut the pork belly along the upper and lower holes and spread it out, put it in the sink, pour a proper amount of flour, oil and vinegar, rub it repeatedly for about 5 minutes, rinse it with water and repeat it; Scrape the inside and outside of the knife to remove dirt and rinse with water; Boil a pot of water, add 3 slices of ginger, 2 shallots and half a bowl of rice wine, add pork belly after boiling, cook for 3-5 minutes until the pork belly hardens, take it out, cool it and cut it into strips about 2 cm thick for use; Cleaning Poria, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Semen Nelumbinis, Coicis Semen and Semen Euryales; Wash onion and cut into sections; Boil clear water, add pork tripe, various medicinal materials, ginger onion and half a bowl of rice wine, and cook for 20 minutes on high fire, then turn to low heat for two hours, and season with salt.