This is a happy thing for the ancients to appeal to both refined and popular tastes. Many rich people build colorful buildings themselves. Good tourists climb mountains or swim in the water, and there must be nuclear vegetables and wine pulp. Literati write poems, while laymen tell the past, and often stay up all night.

Stay up late:

According to folklore, the later you sleep at Mid-Autumn Festival, the longer you live. So some people pray for longevity, but more modern young people take this opportunity to play all night.

Stealing onions and vegetables:

According to legend, if an unmarried girl steals vegetables or onions from another vegetable garden on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, it means that she will meet a Mr Right in the future. There is a saying in Taiwan Province Province that "steal onions and marry a good husband; Stealing vegetables and marrying a good husband "refers to this custom.

Eat duck:

Mulao people in Yunnan pay attention to buying cakes and killing ducks on this day. What osmanthus ducks, salted ducks and Zhangcha ducks in Nanjing often sell well at this time. If you don't find anything, it's probably not bad to bring a Beijing roast duck home to eat.

Eat snails:

People believe that snails can improve their eyesight in the Mid-Autumn Festival. After investigation, vitamin A contained in snail meat is an important substance of eye visual pigment. It can be seen that this statement is reasonable. But why do you have to eat it on the Mid-Autumn Festival? It was pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, snails were empty and there were no snails in the abdomen, so the meat was particularly fat. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Eat taro:

Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou County Records" said: "Playing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, cutting taro and eating it is called peeling the ghost skin." Therefore, eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not to believe in evil spirits.

Drink osmanthus wine:

Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" contains poems such as "Help a horse to drink cinnamon pulp" and "Drink cinnamon wine and pepper pulp". But now, people mostly use red wine instead.

4. What's the difference between the Mid-Autumn Festival customs in the north and the south?

Reporter: What's the difference between the Mid-Autumn Festival customs in the south and the north?

Li Huifang: The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is still preserved. The most famous is watching the moon and tide. The moon comes out on August 15, which is the most spectacular moment of Qiantang River tide. In the past, women in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces had to dress up before they could go to the moon, because the moon was a goddess, "Men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice stoves". The custom in Hubei and Sichuan is to steal melons to send children. For women who are infertile after marriage, their relatives will steal pumpkins or wax gourd from other people's homes on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival (southern homophonic man, melon seeds homophonic, wax gourd symbolizes strong children). These people draw children's eyebrows on melons, put on clothes and secretly put them on the bed of infertile women. The next day, infertile people will be very happy when they find out, and people who have been stolen will be very happy because they are doing it.

Ye Chunsheng: Cantonese people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with the most diverse customs. There are more than 70 kinds of moon cakes in Guangzhou, with thin skin and thick stuffing. In Beijing, Jiangsu and Zhejiang eat moon cakes with thick skin, and moon cakes with crisp skin are from Vietnam. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Cantonese people pay special attention to their recipes. Eating taro is a homonym for "losing your head". Cantonese people also eat fried snails, which contain many kinds of seeds, symbolizing many children and many blessings. Children will carry lanterns made of grapefruit skin and sing children's songs everywhere. Before liberation, there was a custom of "setting up the Mid-Autumn Festival". A tall pole was put on the roof, some crops were put on the roof, and towers were burned to celebrate the harvest. "August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival, some people are happy and some people are sad. Someone is playing the flute upstairs and someone is frowning underground. "