1, Mongolian
Mongolians love to play the game of chasing the moon. People mounted on horses and galloped on the grassland in the silvery moonlight. They set their horses and galloped towards the west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that.
2. Tibetans
The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some areas of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "searching for the moon". That night, young men, women and dolls, along the river, followed the bright moon reflected in the water, took all the moon shadows in the surrounding ponds, and then went home to eat moon cakes.
3. Dong people in Guangxi
The Dong people in Guangxi have the custom of "walking on the moon". On Mid-Autumn Night, Lusheng song and dance teams from all the cottages walked all the way to the nearby cottages, where they gathered with the villagers to enjoy the moon, sing and dance, and had a long night.
4. Deang nationality in Yunnan.
The Deang people in Yunnan "string the moon". Young men and women of De 'ang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan Province, when the mid-autumn moon hangs high and it is particularly bright, the hills are blocked, and from time to time there is a melodious and beautiful Hulusheng, and young men and women gather together to "string the moon" and pour out their hearts. Some also set an engagement by sending betel nuts and tea through "stringing the moon".
5. Yi people in Yunnan
The traditional custom of Yunnan Yi people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "jumping on the moon". At night, all the men, women and children in the villages of this ethnic group gather in the open space in the mountain village. Girls with girdles and veils, boys with cloth belts, old men, old women and children all sing and dance passionately, especially the duets of young men and women expressing their love, as if the moon were moved by it, which made them more charming and bright.
6. Gelao nationality
On the "Tiger Day" before the festival, the Gelao people slaughtered a bull in the whole village, leaving the heart of the bull for the mid-autumn night to worship the ancestors and welcome the new valley. They called it "August Festival".
7. Korean nationality
Koreans use wooden poles and pine branches to build a "moon-watching frame". When the bright moon is lifted off, please invite several elected old people to climb the moon-watching frame. After the old man looks at the moon, he will light the moon-looking frame, beat the long drum and blow the flute, and dance together in "Farmhouse Dance".
Mid-Autumn Festival proverbs of handwritten newspaper materials
July 15th Ghost Festival, August 15th People's Day (Zhangjiakou)
Due south on August 15th, melons and pomegranates are full (Xingtai).
Men don't Yue Bai, women don't sacrifice stoves (Shijiazhuang)
My father-in-law died after eating the moon cakes. (Ji County, Ji County Customs: The new wife will spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in her husband's family for several years in a row, and so will her family. Otherwise, even if you eat moon cakes)
Go back to Hong Kong in May to pick up dragon boats, cut crops in June to earn money, burn paper in July, and earn money to buy cakes and taste the Mid-Autumn Festival in August (Maoming).
Not enough in winter, not enough in summer, and full in August 15th. (Guangzhou, Mid-Autumn Festival, rich in fruit)
On August 15th, workers stopped working, and the winter solstice festival, teaching (in Shanxi, workers stopped working in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and teachers were invited in the winter solstice).
To the Mid-Autumn Festival, the game touches the autumn (Tujia in western Hubei)
Touching autumn in August, picking pomelo and hugging melon is not stealing (touching autumn: custom, stealing others' lost fruit on a moonlit night is not stealing. As the saying goes, it is necessary to send a son to the earth on this day, so a childless married woman can have a son early if she is not found in the autumn. )