The Hakka Festival in August and a half is also called Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, people can't eat by themselves, worship their ancestors and communicate with each other without moon cakes, which simply become a symbol of August and a half. People buy wine to celebrate their ancestors and give them moon cakes as gifts. Moon cakes are the main seasonal food in August and a half, which means reunion. Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival. During the festival, married women are asked to visit relatives at their sister's house. The specific time varies from place to place, among which Meizhou is the sixth day in both urban and rural areas, and there is a saying in rural customs that the second day is the sixth day. Dragon boat race. Dragon boat is a combination of dragon and boat, that is, the boat is painted in the shape of a dragon. In the old days, in Meizhou urban and rural areas, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races were held in markets along the Meijiang River system. At that time, colorful flags were flying on the river, gongs and drums were loud, and onlookers crowded by the river, which was very lively. May 13 is the birthday of Emperor Guan Sheng. According to folklore, this day is the day when Hiderigami, a drought monster, passed by, so he prayed to Guan Gong to show his spirit and give him a shower to relieve his worries about agriculture. If it rains, it's because it rained when Guan Gong went to the meeting alone. Therefore, the ceremony was particularly grand. A Hakka folk song sings: On May 13th, I greeted Guan Ye, wearing a straw hat and holding an umbrella; Bless the sky with heavy rain, one holding an umbrella and two holding it. The summer solstice means that the hot summer is coming. It is said that killing dogs and eating dog meat that day has the effect of anti-drug and anti-abuse. There is a saying in Meizhou custom that dogs walk all over the mountain from summer solstice or dogs have nowhere to go from summer solstice. Although the two proverbs are different, they have the same meaning. In other words, it is common to kill dogs in summer solstice, so dogs are forced to run all over the mountain or have nowhere to hide. The reason for this custom is that when the hot summer comes, eating dog meat, a positive food, has the functions of strengthening the body, detoxifying and preventing diseases. Similar to the theory of treating colds in summer and treating all diseases in dog days. Meixian, Xingning, Tai Po and other villages have had the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called autumn. At this time, the busy summer harvest season of summer sowing is basically over, and people have worked hard for more than a month, so it's time to rest. Autumn here means that Hakka is finished and ready. Now that farm work is over, we should celebrate. On this day, people don't do farm work, and this day is called autumn. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the fifth solar term after beginning of spring and one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar, which falls on April 4th or 5th every year in the Gregorian calendar. According to the calculation of 60 Jia Zi, winter begins from the solstice after 105 or 106. On this day, there is a traditional custom in most Hakka areas: every household makes blue rice noodles with green wormwood, rice and glutinous rice, sends them to a fixed lawn or a river or intersection, puts them on the ground, and then burns incense and paper to pay homage to those ghosts (ancestors have no descendants to sweep), in order to bless the countryside to be safe and clean, the six animals to flourish and Tian He to be ripe.

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