During the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to admiring the moon and eating moon cakes, people in various places also have customs such as eating ducks, snails, taro, and drinking osmanthus wine. Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies can be divided into three categories: first, cakes, Chaoshan moon cakes, sweet, salty, meaty, assorted, and multi-flavored. There are also noodle cakes, soft cakes, and cloud cakes, all of which are Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, which are good gifts for the trendy people; the second is the Chaoshan Mid-Autumn Festival, which is when the fruits are ripe, such as pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive, and banana. etc. are also another type of Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies among Chaozhou people; third, Chaozhou people use taro and pumpkin to make taro puree and melon pulp. Taro, glutinous rice cakes, etc. are also must-eats for hipsters during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

How do Hakka people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Ningdu’s bamboo pennies and fire dragons make Mid-Autumn Festival

? When the fire dragon is there, the plague is eliminated; when the fire dragon is strong, the descendants are prosperous; when the fire dragon travels, Xie Dangen On September 8, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Jiangxi Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project - Nanyun Village Penny and Fire Dragon Festival - was held in Luokou Town, Ningdu County. The Penny Fire Dragon is made by tying oil-soaked paper media to a 10-meter-long moso bamboo, and there are usually twenty or thirty bamboo poles. The villagers first lit the paper media on each pennies, then raised the pennies high, and then began to parade throughout the village. As the Penny Fire Dragon walked away, villagers and tourists cheered one after another. Many people took photos with their cameras, which was particularly lively.

The fire dragon is sometimes straight and sometimes diagonal on the road, and the flickering firelight is dotted in the middle of the new house, like pearls worn on the bride's body, gorgeous and colorful. Singing, applause, and laughter surrounded Nanyun Village, celebrating that the villagers had lived a happier and more prosperous life.

Meixian worships the moon to pray for blessings and safety

After dinner, a full moon rises in the sky. An ancient dwelling with a history of more than 340 years? Qiangshu Hall? (Snake Shape, Yanxia Village, Meixian District) It has a unique ancient charm under the moonlight. Many villagers gathered here, making this originally silent ancient residence lively.

In the courtyard of the ancestral hall, the villagers were busy organizing the ceremony to receive the moonlight. Set up an Eight Immortals table, set up an incense burner on the table, and place mooncakes, Yinbao (a kind of rice cake made of sticky rice flour and glutinous rice flour, pressed into shape and then steamed, with patterns and the word "Fu" printed on it), and pigs. Offerings such as sausage cake (a kind of rice cake made from cooked glutinous rice flour) and grapefruit are used to worship the moon god and pray for good weather and good food and clothing for the people. In Yanxia Village, villagers have the custom of "blessing the moon". They choose to set up tables and burn incense in courtyards, balconies, gates, open spaces and other places where the moon can be seen, and offer cakes and fruits to worship. In an instant, the sound of firecrackers in the village could be heard, the smoke of burning incense pipes filled the air, and laughter could be heard one after another.

Most of the offerings used in "Jie Yuehua" are to pray for blessings, eliminate disasters, and ensure safety. For example, peeling grapefruit peels or peanut shells is called "peeling ghost skins", which expresses the idea that people can drive away evil spirits, eliminate disasters, and reduce disasters. wish. In the past, when people were poor, they usually only used two plates of peanuts and one plate of grapefruit to worship the moon god. Now that life is better, they have moon cakes and other sacrifices. After that, the 79-year-old Li Faxian distributed the sacrifices from Yuehua to men, women, old and young. Li Faxian said: After worshiping the "Yuehua", these sacrifices should be distributed to the children first, hoping that the children will be better behaved and grow up quickly after eating. ?

Reunion to relieve homesickness

In Changting, the capital of the Hakkas, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "August Half". It is bustling from the city to the countryside. The main customs include eating moon cakes and killing people. Pomelo, Daziba, Zhaoyuehua, etc.

Early yesterday morning, people killed chickens and ducks and began to take care of the festival. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest festival, relatives from hundreds or thousands of miles away will rush home. It is indispensable for relatives to gather together for a reunion dinner once a year.

Eating moon cakes and admiring the bright moon, the Central Plains culture is vividly expressed here; killing grapefruit, there is a saying of "peeling ghost skin", which means to ward off evil spirits. Eating grapefruit is also a part of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, so , during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Changting, the business of pomelo stalls is not inferior to mooncake shops at all.

Eating moon cakes and admiring the bright moon are the homesickness of the Hakka people. Family reunion and joy are the original meaning of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Happy reunion in Yongding Tulou

August and fifteenth are full. Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Hongkeng Folk Culture Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding County, the Yongding Hakka Earth Building, a world cultural heritage, was bustling with activity.

A Geng, the owner of Zhencheng Building, welcomed his family home early in the morning. His daughter and son-in-law came back, as did his grandchildren who were studying abroad. Every time he saw a family member coming back, Ageng would say happily: "It's good to be back, it's good to be back, we must be reunited!"

The people living in Zhencheng Building for generations are all Hakkas. They regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a day of reunion, so they are very particular about celebrating the festival. The Tin Hau Temple next to the Zhencheng Building is filled with smoke on every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, before dawn, Ageng's family got up and killed chickens and ducks. They prepared "three animals" and fruits, moon cakes and other offerings. They went to the Tianhou Temple with everyone, kowtowed and burned incense in front of the Mazu statue, and prayed for a safe and sound year. .

Looking at the family members who had returned, Ageng, who was enjoying family happiness, picked up a glass of wine and responded to everyone: "We want to pass on traditional customs and good family traditions from generation to generation, and wish everyone peace and well-being."

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