There are also colorful handmade sacrifices-all kinds of gold ingots folded with silver paper, some fruit candy piled into towers, and "picking green" carved with food, such as peacocks with oranges tied to branches and leaves, and tea towers piled with small tea bags or beans. -It's all the work of housewives.
Neighbors showed their sacrifices together in the moonlight. There is also a meaning of competition for everyone to judge, also called "game table".
What makes children most happy is the colorful tower made of colored paper, and how tall one person is. It not only has a lot of paper-bound pictures on each floor, but also can rotate, and some of them are singing tide songs.
The reason for going to Yue Bai in Mid-Autumn Festival;
China's ritual of offering sacrifices to the moon dates back to the Zhou Dynasty. The time to worship the moon is when the moon rises in the Mid-Autumn Festival. The key to offering sacrifices to the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival is to pay tribute to the moon god. Mid-Autumn Festival, if there is no moon, or even no rain, you can sacrifice the moon and hold it where the moonlight can shine. In case of cloudy days, the sacrificial platform can be placed in the direction of the moon.
In China, the traditional worship of the moon is generally based on the family. To attend Yue Bai, a priest (in charge of work), a eulogy (equivalent to the host) and several deacons (the priest's assistant) are selected. Usually, older female elders or housewives serve as priests. According to tradition, "men don't Yue Bai, women don't offer sacrifices to stoves". Therefore, men generally serve as worshippers and deacons to help worship the moon.
August 15th of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and Zhuang people also attach great importance to this festival. In the Zhuang area, the Mid-Autumn Festival is similar to that of the Han nationality, and there are also a series of activities with strong national characteristics such as offering sacrifices to the moon, so it is also called the "Moon Festival".
The Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient ceremony, which expresses people's good wishes to pray for the moon god to bless the world.