Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China, and enjoying the moon is an important custom of the festival. Many poets have poems chanting the moon in their masterpieces, and the court and folk moon appreciation activities in Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties are more large-scale. Moon appreciation also refers to watching the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival activities began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties.

2. Sacrifice the moon

In ancient times, our people had the custom of "autumn dusk and evening moon". The evening moon is to worship the moon god. In the Zhou dynasty, every mid-autumn night was held to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon. The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. Apart from being similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Han nationality, there are also a series of activities with strong national characteristics, such as the Moon Festival of the Zhuang nationality, so it is also called "Moon Festival".

3, Mid-Autumn Festival lights

In Huguang area, there is a custom of stacking tiles and burning lamps on the tower, while in Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making lanterns. In modern Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of burning lanterns is more prosperous. Guangdong has the most lanterns, and families tie lanterns with bamboo sticks ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Make fruit, birds and animals, fish and insects and the words' Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival', and paint various colors on paste paper.

The internal combustion candle of Mid-Autumn Night Lantern is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, and the tall tree is placed on the tile eaves or terrace, or it is built into a glyph or various shapes with small lamps and hung at the height of the house. The scale of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to Lantern Festival.

4. Eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes, Mid-Autumn Festival eating habits. "Mooncakes" were first seen in Wu Zimu's Dream of Liang Lu in the Southern Song Dynasty. A round cake bait with stuffing is a seasonal food for the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Lunar New Year. Up to now, there are still such moon cakes in Yexian County and Weixian County of Shandong Province. Take the meaning of reunion. Xianfeng Nine-year "Jinxiang County Records": "Mid-Autumn Day: Making moon cakes, buying watermelons, and giving them to relatives and friends".

5. Watch the tide

In ancient times, in addition to enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhejiang, tide watching was another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which was described in detail in Mei Cheng's Fu of Seven Hair in Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching became more popular. There are also records of watching the tide in Zhu Tinghuan's Supplementing the Past Events of Wulin in Ming Dynasty and Meng Liang Lu by Zi Mu in Song and Wu Dynasties.