During the Mid-Autumn Festival every year, everyone eats moon cakes, because moon cakes symbolize reunion. Today I will bring you an essay on the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let’s take a look!

It is a custom in Fujian during the Mid-Autumn Festival that women have to cross the Nanpu Bridge during the Mid-Autumn Festival in order to live longer.

In Jianning, hanging lanterns on the Mid-Autumn Festival night is a good omen to ask for a child from the Moon Palace.

People in Shanghang County celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of their children ask the moon aunt when they worship the moon.

When Longyan people eat moon cakes, parents will dig out a round cake with a diameter of two or three inches in the center for the elders to eat, which means that secrets cannot be known to the younger generations.

This custom stems from the legend that mooncakes contain anti-Yuan messages to kill enemies.

Before worshiping the moon during the Kinmen Mid-Autumn Festival, you must first worship God.

There is a custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival in various places in Chaoshan, Guangdong, mainly for women and children. There is a proverb that "men do not worship the full moon, women do not worship the stove".

In the evening, when the bright moon rises, women set up tables in the courtyard and on the balcony to pray in the air.

Silver candles were burning high, incense was lingering, and the table was filled with fruits and cakes as offerings.

Burning pagodas on Mid-Autumn Festival night is also very popular in Guangdong.

The tower height ranges from 1 to 3 meters, and is mostly built with broken tiles. Large towers are also built with bricks, accounting for about 1/4 of the tower height, and then stacked tiles, leaving a

The tower mouth is used for putting fuel.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, fires are lit, and the fuel includes wood, bamboo, chaff, etc. When the fire is strong, rosin powder is poured on it to ignite the flames, which is very spectacular.

The customs in Jiangnan area are related to food.

Nanjing people love to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat Jinling's famous dish, osmanthus duck.

"Osmanthus duck" is on the market when osmanthus is fragrant. It is fat but not greasy and delicious.

After drinking, you must eat a small amount of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon syrup. It goes without saying that it is delicious.

Nanjing has the Moon Tower and the Moon Bridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the Chaoyue Tower was built under the Lion Mountain. They are all for people to admire the moon, and those who visit the Moon Bridge are the most popular.

When the moon is high in the sky, people go to the Moon Tower and play on the Moon Bridge together, and enjoy seeing the Jade Rabbit.

In the Land of Abundance, people from Sichuan Province celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in addition to moon cakes, making cakes, killing ducks, and eating sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc.

In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate.

There are also children who fill grapefruits with incense and dance along the street, which is called "Dancing the Meteor Fragrance Ball." During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County, they worship the earth god, perform dramas, vocal music, and cultural relics, which is called "watching the party." In the north, farmers in Qingyun County, Shandong Province

On August 15th, people worship the God of Earth and Valley, which is called "Qingmiao Society". In addition to worshiping the moon, people in Zhucheng, Linyi, Jimo and other places also have to visit their graves to worship their ancestors.

Landlords in Guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Youcheng also entertained their tenants during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jimo, people eat a special food called "Wheat Arrow". In Lu'an, Shanxi Province, they treat their son-in-law to a banquet on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Datong County, moon cakes are called reunion cakes, and there is a custom of keeping vigil on Mid-Autumn Night.

Wanquan County in Hebei Province calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day". On the moonlight paper, there are figures of the Lunar Star King and Emperor Guan reading the Spring and Autumn Festival at night.

People in Hejian County believe that the Mid-Autumn rain is bitter rain. If it rains during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the locals believe that the vegetables must taste bad.