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A simple and easy-to-learn Mid-Autumn Festival handwritten newspaper suitable for children, with hand-painted simple drawings to wish everyone a happy holiday.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, and Korean families living in Tieling, Kaiyuan, Changtu, Xifeng and other places have started preparing for it early. Worshiping ancestors is the top priority of the Mid-Autumn Festival. People have to prepare items for worship, such as jujubes, chestnuts, persimmons, and apples produced that year. There is a lot of care in choosing these items as tribute. The ancestors of the Korean people believed that jujubes had high yields and chestnuts were less pest-infested, so they used them as offerings to symbolize the health and longevity of their descendants. Persimmons can be sold as fresh fruit or made into dried persimmons, which indicates good income and abundant financial resources. Apple means peace and tranquility. In addition to preparing food for sacrifices, rice noodles and red beans for wrapping the sponge cakes must also be prepared. There is also the need to use new rice to brew sweet rice wine, which is indispensable for family reunions and banquets on the Mid-Autumn Festival. On August 15th or the day before, the whole family will make an appointment to go to the ancestral graves to offer sacrifices. Relatives who are away from home also have to return home to cut grass for the Autumn Festival.

After worshiping their ancestors and returning home, the women help the men make cakes, make sponge cakes, and prepare a table of sumptuous meals. Da Gao is named after the main technique of making it is beating it with a wooden mallet. Put the steamed glutinous rice (or yellow rice) into a wooden trough or a stone trough, and beat it repeatedly with a wooden mallet "pop, pop, pop..." until the grains of glutinous rice are beaten into chewy cakes. . The way to eat cake is also very particular. It should be dipped in homemade red bean paste and soybean noodles mixed with sugar or salt. Song cake is also called moon cake, and its appearance is very similar to the dumplings that Han people eat during the New Year. To make sponge cake dough, the new rice of that year must be used. The sponge cake filling is made of red beans, soybeans, chestnuts, red dates and other raw materials. When the sponge cake is put into the pan, a layer of pine leaves from that year should be laid on the steamer. At the same time, the loud sound of gongs and drums was heard outside the yard, indicating that the team of scalpers had arrived. When the villagers heard the sound of gongs and drums, they rushed out one after another, following the huge team, driving the "old scalpers" to visit the rice fields and villages. "Old scalper" and the villagers would sometimes stop suddenly when they walked to the door of a certain house. This family must have had the best harvest in the village that year. Standing at the gate, the "old scalper" shouted loudly: "After working hard for a year, the old scalper is thirsty and hungry. He wants to ask the owner for something to eat and drink!" When the owner heard this, he immediately smiled. He opened the door to welcome the "old scalpers" and fellow villagers, and warmly received the guests with the wine, rice cakes and other delicacies that had been prepared. "Old scalper" and the villagers danced with farm music for their master, wishing the family and the whole village good weather in the coming year, planting good crops, and another bumper harvest.

After the sun goes down, people begin to use prepared pine branches or sorghum poles, straw, straw ropes, etc. to erect a small "door" on the ground. This "door" represents the house of the moon. After coming down, everyone squatted around the "moon room" and waited for the moon to rise. When the moon rises, people run to the "Moon Room" one after another. The first person who runs to it lights the "Moon Room". In this way, in the hearts of every Korean villager, the old moon is burned. Rising in the sky is a brand new full moon. Under the bright moon, Korean women put on their festive costumes. Under the moonlight, they held hands and happily danced the folk dance "Jiang Jiang Shui Yue Lai".