What should I pay attention to during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Maoming, Yue Bai?
In Maoming, most people worship moonlight on Mid-Autumn Festival. After the reunion dinner, everyone will worship the moonlight in an open place, such as in front of the house and on the roof.
People will bring a small table filled with fruits, moon cakes, grapefruit and other delicacies, and then pray for moonlight. After Yue Bai, it is pleasant to eat cakes, drink tea and talk about the land. For Maoming people, this is the taste of going home during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In different areas, there are different opinions about worshipping moonlight. For example, people in some areas of Xinyi will be called moonlight clan, and some will invite menstruation. The villagers will invite Aunt Moon.
When invited, only women can attend. Women set up the incense table, put on moon cakes, tea wine, taro, peanuts and fruits, and two women stood in front of the incense table with a gauze hat with clothes and repeatedly knocked.
Dear father, Lu also worships, so do I. Next year, we will worship the world, with a lot of pork and castrated chickens, and sweet potato sunspots are deeply loved by Lu, so as to protect everyone from making the world bigger! On the Mid-Autumn Festival, when you walk into Dianbaichen Village, you can still hear this Yue Bai nursery rhyme.
What do Maoming people do in Mid-Autumn Festival?
Make an annual rule
Many areas in Maoming celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, such as some towns and villages in Huazhou and Dianbai. Among them, the annual flavor of Mata Town in Dianbai District is the most lively.
Mid-Autumn Festival is the first festival in Mata town, the most grand festival in a year, and also the annual example of local people. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household sets several tables of banquets and sincerely invites friends and relatives to get together and have a good drink.
The most interesting program is delivering guns. In the early morning of Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers began to make preparations for delivering guns. There are all kinds of floats, including children dressed as Cantonese opera Hua Dan, lion dance team, dragon dance team, colorful flag team, colorful motorcade and honor guard.
After everything was ready, fireworks sounded, the mighty parade crossed the street, and the sound of gongs and drums spread to every corner of Mata town.
Eat grapefruit
On Mid-Autumn Festival, Maoming people like to eat grapefruit. Grapefruit is sour and sweet, appetizing, greasy and refreshing.
Grapefruit is big and round, symbolizing reunion, while grapefruit and youyou are homophonic, representing the good will of wishing the moon to bless. Guo said:
Maoming people are very skillful when peeling grapefruit, because the peeled grapefruit skin will be made into grapefruit lanterns. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, children like to carry all kinds of lanterns and chase and play under the moon. Among them are grapefruit lanterns. Lanterns made of grapefruit skin are especially beautiful at night.