Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Moon Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Moon Worship Festival", "Daughter's Day" and "Reunion Festival", is popular among many ethnic groups in China.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, and evolved from the worship of the moon in autumn in ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.
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Huguang burning lamp
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lamps to help the moonlight. Now there is still a custom of burning lamps on the tower with tiles stacked on it in Huguang area. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of making lanterns, and the custom of burning lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival is even more prosperous in modern times. Today, Zhou Yunjin and He Xiangfei said in their article "Talking about Seasons in Leisure": "Guangdong has the most prosperous lanterns, and every family tied lanterns with bamboo sticks ten days before the festival. Make fruit, birds and animals, fish and insects and' celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival' and so on, and paint various colors on paste paper.
The candle burning in the Mid-Autumn Night Lantern is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, and it stands high on the tile eaves or terrace, or it is built into a glyph or various shapes with small lights and hung on the height of the house, commonly known as' Mid-Autumn Festival on a tree' or' Mid-Autumn Festival vertically'. The lamp hung by a wealthy family can be as high as several tens of feet, and families gather under the lamp to enjoy drinking, while ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and glass world. The custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.