How do Hakkas celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Ningdu penny fire dragon to do Mid-Autumn Festival.
? The fire dragon is there, and the plague is removed; Dragon is prosperous, and children are prosperous; Longyou, thank you September 8, Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiangxi Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project? Penny Fire Dragon Festival in Nanyun Village? Held in Luokou Town, Ningdu County. Penny fire dragon is made of bamboo with a length of about 10 meter, which is tied with paper media saturated with oil. * * * There are twenty or thirty bamboo poles. The villagers first lit paper media on every penny, then held a penny high, and then began to March in the village. As the bamboo pole dragon swam away, the cheers of villagers and tourists came and went, and many people kept taking pictures with cameras, which was particularly lively.
The fire dragon is sometimes straight and sometimes oblique on the road, and the flashing light is dotted in the center of the new house, just like pearls worn on the bride's body, colorful. Singing, applause and laughter surrounded Nanyun Village to celebrate the villagers' happier life.
Yue Bai, Meixian, pray for peace.
After dinner, a full moon rises on the horizon, an ancient residence with a history of more than 340 years? Qiangshutang? Xia Yan Village, a snake in Meixian District, has an ancient interest in moonlight. Many villagers gathered here to make this originally quiet ancient residence lively and boiling.
In the courtyard of the temple, the villagers are busy planning? Pick up yuehua? Ceremony. Put a square table with incense burners and moon cakes on it. Seal? A rice cake is made by mixing sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour, pressing, molding and steaming, with patterns and blessings printed on it. Pig sausage cake? (a kind of rice cake made of cooked glutinous rice flour), grapefruit and other offerings are used to worship the moon god and pray for good weather and adequate food and clothing for the people. In Xia Yan Village, do all the villagers have it? Pick up yuehua? As a custom, they choose to set up a case to burn incense for cakes and fruits in courtyards, balconies, doorways, open spaces and other places where they can see the moon. At this moment, firecrackers are heard in the village, the incense of burning barrels is filled, and laughter comes and goes.
Pick up yuehua? Most of the offerings used are to pray for disaster relief and safety, such as peeling grapefruit or peanut shells. What is this called? Skin a ghost? Expressed people's desire to exorcise evil spirits and reduce disasters. In the past, when people were poor, they usually only used two plates of peanuts and one plate of grapefruit to see the God Yue Bai. Now they live a good life, so they have moon cakes and other sacrifices. ? For example, will 79-year-old Li finish it? Yuehua? Sacrifice is shared by men, women and children. Li said to him, Bye-bye? Yuehua? After that, we should give these sacrifices to the children first, hoping that the children will be more obedient and grow up quickly after eating them. ?
Reunion relieves homesickness
In Changting, the capital of Hakka, is it also called Mid-Autumn Festival? August and a half? From the city to the countryside, it is very lively. The main customs are eating moon cakes, killing pomelos, making rice cakes and taking pictures of moonlight.
Yesterday morning, people killed chickens and ducks and began to take care of the festival. As the Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest festival, relatives thousands of miles away will rush home, so it is essential for relatives to get together for a reunion dinner once a year.
Eating moon cakes and enjoying the bright moon, the Central Plains culture is vividly displayed here; Kill grapefruit, right? Skin a ghost? Eating grapefruit is also a part of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the business of Changting and grapefruit stalls in the Mid-Autumn Festival is no less than that of moon cake shops.
Eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon are the homesickness of Hakkas, and family reunion is the original meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival.
Yongding Tulou is happy for reunion.
Full moon on August 15th. Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Hongkeng Folk Culture Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding County, the world cultural heritage Yongding Hakka Earth Building is very lively.
Dong Ageng of Zhencheng Building greeted his family at home early in the morning. His daughter and son-in-law are back, and so are his grandchildren studying abroad. Every time I see my family come back, Geng will happily say:? Come back okay, come back okay, everyone must get together! ?
In the sincere building, Hakkas have lived for generations. They think Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion, so festivals are very particular. In the Tianhou Palace next to the Sincere Building, cigarettes can be seen everywhere on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Every day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, A Geng's family would get up and kill chickens and ducks. Are you ready? Three kinds of animals? And make fruit, moon cakes and other offerings, come to the Tianhou Palace with everyone, worship and burn incense in front of Mazu statue, and pray for peace for one year.
Looking at the family who came back, A Geng, who enjoyed his family's happiness, picked up his glass in return. We should pass on the traditional customs and fine family style from generation to generation, and wish everyone peace. ?