I don't know if you already know the method of celebrating ethnic minorities, so I'll repeat it:

Tu people's "beating the moon"

Tu people put clear water in a basin, and then people kept beating the moon in the basin with pebbles, commonly known as "beating the moon".

Tibetan custom of "searching for the moon"

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.

Mongolian custom of chasing the moon

Under the mid-autumn moon, Mongolian men, women and children mounted horses and galloped on the grassland in silver moonlight. The moon rises in the east and falls in the west, but they set their horses and galloped towards the west, closely following the footsteps of the moon, and not only "chasing the moon" until it is under the moon.

Ewenki custom of offering the moon

Ewenki compatriots celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with family reunion and offering the moon as the main content. During the festival, they also visit relatives and friends and entertain each other. On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, people gather around the bonfire, singing and dancing until late at night.

the custom of "walking on the moon" of the Dong people in Guangxi

Mid-autumn night approaches, and Lusheng song and dance teams from all the cottages walk all the way to the nearby cottages, where they gather with the villagers to enjoy the moon, compete in songs and dances, and have fun all night.

Guangxi Zhuang people's "offering sacrifices to the moon"

Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, or in the mid-autumn night, people set up a sacrificial table in the open air at the end of the village for offering sacrifices and incense burners. On the right side of the table, a branch or bamboo branch about one foot high is planted, which symbolizes the community tree and also serves as a ladder for the moon god to descend to heaven. The activities are divided into: please ask the moon god to come down to earth; God and man sing to each other; Luna divination fortune-telling; Singers sing the mantra song and send the moon god back to heaven in four stages. In addition, Zhuang people are used to using rice cakes and Yue Bai on the bamboo raft houses in the river, while girls put lanterns on the water to measure their happiness all their lives, and sing the beautiful folk song "Please Moon Gu".

Buyi people steal old melons and cook glutinous rice

Buyi people will wrap the stolen old melons in red cloth and shoot them all the way to families without children. When the owner of this family accepts the old melon, he must treat the delivery person to wine, night snack. It is said that this will bring children to this family. For this stolen melon, the stolen family will not care. On the contrary, they will think that it will bring them a better harvest.

the custom of "stringing the moon" of De 'ang ethnic group

For De 'ang ethnic group in Luxi, Yunnan, whenever the mid-autumn moon is high and bright, a melodious cucurbit will come from time to time, and young men and women will "string the moon" together to pour out their feelings. Some also set an engagement by sending betel nuts and tea through "stringing the moon".

the "August Festival" of the Li nationality

The Li nationality calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "August Festival" or "Tune Festival". At this time, song and dance parties are held in various market towns, and young men and women in each village are led by a "Tune Head" (that is, the team leader) to attend and give each other moon cakes, fragrant cakes, sweet cakes and cakes. At night, they gather by the fire, roast game, drink rice wine and sing duets, while unmarried young people choose this opportunity to find their future partners.

Korean Mid-Autumn Festival custom

Korean people kill cows and chickens, cook delicacies and make festive foods such as cakes and muffins with New Valley. Muffins are steamed rice flour, beaten into sticky dough, then rolled into small pieces, or rolled rice flour into pieces; Use adzuki beans, peas, sesame seeds, perilla seeds, chestnuts, sugar, etc. as stuffing, wrap it into a crescent-shaped water chestnut shape, and steam it in a pot to eat. It is as big as peanuts, tastes like glutinous rice balls, and has a unique flavor. At night, Koreans set up a "moon-watching frame" with wooden poles and pine branches. First, they invited the elderly to explore the moon on the frame, then lit the moon-watching frame, knocked on the long drum and played the flute, and danced together in a "farmhouse dance".

Yue Bai custom of the Dai people

According to Dai legend, the moon was changed by the rock tip of the third son of the Emperor. Yan Jian is a brave and strong young man who led the Dai people to defeat the powerful enemy and was deeply loved by the Dai people. Later, he died unfortunately, turned into the moon, rose to the sky, and continued to shine softly, giving light to the Dai people in the dark. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, young men take gunpowder guns up the mountain early in the morning to shoot fire finches and pheasants and hunt holiday game. Girls and daughters-in-law are busy catching fish in lakes and ponds. They are all busy preparing the holiday dinner. The old lady is busy frying glutinous rice and cooking foods of different sizes. On each corner of the four tables, a glutinous rice round cake is placed, and a wick Leng Xiang is inserted into each cake. When the moon rises from the mountain forest and lights Leng Xiang, the whole family, old and young, will begin to "Yue Bai". Later, gunpowder guns were fired at the air to show respect for the hero's rock tip. Finally, the whole family sat around the small square table, tasted food, laughed and enjoyed the moon, and had a good time.

Achang people's special customs

Achang people in lianghe county, Yunnan Province never forget to give their dogs a full meal every Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, in the past, rice was all grown by itself, and it was as tall as a banana tree. Therefore, people developed the habit of being lazy and wasted all the rice they could not eat. One day, Goddess Guanyin saw that people didn't cherish food so much. In a rage, a gust of wind blew and swept away all the millet. Soon, people were crying out in hunger. Guanyin heard the dog barking and thought that it was people who did evil, not dogs, so he threw handfuls of millet at the place where the dog barked, and people drove the dog away to grab the seeds to eat. An old man dissuaded everyone, and sowed a few grains of grain in the fields by the river. From generation to generation, people not only learned to grow millet, but also learned that life depends on hard work. In order not to forget the lessons of the past, but also to repay the kindness of the dog to get the seeds of grain, on the morning of August 15, every household will cook rice with newly harvested rice and feed it to the dog, and then visit relatives and friends and have fun together.

Gaoshan people's custom of holding the ball

According to legend, in ancient times, there was a young couple by the Daqingxi River, the male named Big Tip Brother and the female named Sister Shuihua, who lived by fishing. One day, the sun and the moon suddenly disappeared, the sky was dark, the seedlings withered, the flowers and fruits were not long, and the insects and birds cried. The big tip and the splash decided to get the sun and the moon back. Under the guidance of the white-haired old woman, they killed the male dragon that swallowed the sun in the deep pool with a golden axe, and killed the female dragon that swallowed the moon with golden scissors. Then they brought palm branches and lifted the sun and the moon into the sky. In order to conquer the dragon, they stayed by the pool forever and became two mountains: the big tip and the splash. This big pool is called "Sun Moon Lake". Therefore, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Gaoshan compatriots miss the dedication of Dajian and Shuihua couples, and they all go to the Sun Moon Lake to imitate the couple's colorful balls holding the sun and the moon, so as not to let the colorful balls fall to the ground, so as to make the sun and the moon bright, the weather good and the crops plentiful.

Miao people's custom of jumping on the moon

According to the ancient legend of Miao people, the moon is a loyal, honest, hardworking and brave young man. A beautiful young Shuiqing girl fell in love with the moon after rejecting ninety-nine young men who proposed to her from Jiujiuzhou. After that, she experienced all kinds of hardships made by the sun, and finally came together happily with the moon. Therefore, in order to show the memory of their happy love, Miao parents should bathe in the moonlight, sing and dance on the Mid-Autumn Festival night for generations, and call it "jumping on the moon". Young men and women look for each other's sweetheart and pour out their affection in the "jumping on the moon", saying that they should be as pure and bright as the water and the moon, and they will always have a good relationship. In addition, the Asi people in Yunnan also have the custom of jumping on the moon in mid-autumn night.

Hakka Mid-Autumn Festival custom

Hakka people call Mid-Autumn Festival "August Festival" or "August and a half". Every time the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon rises, Hakka people set out moon cakes, peanuts, grapefruit and other fruits in the courtyard, balcony, or the place in front of the house where the moon rises, ready to "worship the moonlight" activities. After the worship, the whole family enjoyed the moon and ate outside. Appreciating the moon is actually a matter for adults. Children generally don't just sit there and watch, but chase and play in the bright moonlight. This is their paradise. For eating, it is a little particular, often eating these sacrifices to the moon god first. This is the tradition of Chinese sacrificial culture, that is, after the gods enjoy it, the worshippers often divide up the sacrifices, thus ending the whole sacrificial ceremony. In the process of sharing food, on the one hand, we accepted the blessing of the moon god, on the other hand, we fulfilled the traditional sacrificial culture. Hakka people in Meixian say that eating these sacrifices will be more "good", more blessed and more auspicious. In Meizhou, in addition to the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival food with universal significance, pomelo is also an essential holiday food, with varieties of golden pomelo (Shatian pomelo), honey pomelo or crystal pomelo. Eating grapefruit in the Mid-Autumn Festival also has a certain meaning, such as cutting grapefruit is called "killing grapefruit", which means exorcism; It is also said that peeling grapefruit skin is "peeling ghost skin", which embodies the desire to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

"Stealing Moon Cuisine" in Dong Township, Hunan Province

According to legend, in ancient times, on the Mid-Autumn Festival moonlit night, the fairies in the Moon Palace came down to the lower world and sprinkled nectar all over the world. This nectar is selfless, and people can enjoy fruits and vegetables sprinkled with nectar at this time. The Dong family named this custom "stealing moon dishes". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Dong girls use flower umbrellas to pick melons and vegetables from their beloved garden, without being regarded as "stealing". They also deliberately shouted: "Hey! Your melons and vegetables have been ripped away by me. Come to my house to eat camellia oleifera! " It turns out that they are passing the red line with the help of the Moon Palace Fairy. If you can pick a melon and fruit, it means that they can have a happy love. Therefore, the beans that grow in pairs have become the object of their picking. Sister-in-law also went to other gardens to "steal moon dishes" that night, but they hoped to get the fattest melon or a handful of fresh and green edamame, because it symbolizes the fatness of children and the health of hairy heads (the homonym of edamame refers to children). And the boys also have the custom of "stealing moon dishes", because they also hope that the moon fairy will give them happiness. However, they can only cook and eat in the wild, and can't take them home.

Buyi folk traditional festivals. Popular in Guizhou and other places. It is held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month every year. On this day, every household will make new rice cakes and new glutinous rice. Sacrifice ancestors first, and then have a family dinner. At night, when the moon is bright, offer sacrifices to the mother-in-law of the moon. Moon Worship Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, is said to be a traditional festival in China with family reunion and moon appreciation as its main content. Also known as Reunion Festival, August Festival, August and a half, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day, Moon Chasing Festival and Moon Playing Festival. It is named Mid-Autumn Festival because it falls in the middle of autumn on August 15th in the summer calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival, Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the three traditional festivals in China. Han, Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, North Korea, Gelao, She, Beijing and other ethnic groups all celebrate the Cambodian "Moon Worship Festival" this festival.

Cambodians hold a traditional "Moon Worship Festival" on the 15th day of the first quarter of December in the Buddhist calendar. This morning, people began to prepare gifts for the moon, some picked flowers, some dug cassava to make soup, some boiled rice, some boiled sugar cane water, and there was a happy and busy atmosphere. In the evening, everyone put the offerings into the tray and put the tray on a big mat in front of the house, waiting for the bright moon to rise. At the top of the tree that month, people sincerely prayed for Yue Bai's blessings. After worship, the old man stuffed the flat rice into the child's mouth until it was too full to chew. This means "roundness and fullness" and "harmony and beauty". Finally, everyone enjoyed the delicious food and left.

Now I know some local customs and let me introduce them to you:

● Beijing

Traditional moon cakes in old Beijing include naturally invited red, naturally invited white and mooncakes with syrup. Mooncake with syrup lifting refers to a method of making the crust of mooncakes. It is said that the popular point of "syrup lifting" is to boil syrup, and a certain proportion of big oil should be added to the crust to make it crisp. When Muslims buy it, they change the big oil into butter. This kind of moon cake is characterized by crispy skin and fragrant stuffing, and "old Beijing" loves it in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In terms of dishes, crabs are fat in August and autumn, and Mid-Autumn Festival is the time to taste crabs, especially in Beijing.

● Fujian

People in Fujian have the custom of eating ducks in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is the fattest season for ducks. Fujian people use the betel nut taro rich in Fujian to cook with ducks, which is called roast duck with betel nut taro. It tastes very good.

● Shandong

Jimo and other places eat a seasonal food called "wheat arrow" during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

● Shanxi

Lu 'an people will entertain their son-in-law in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Datong county moon cakes are called reunion cakes, which are as big as two or three feet, and there is a custom of vigil in mid-autumn night.

● Shaanxi

On mid-autumn night in Xixiang County, men went boating on the cliff, and women also arranged a good banquet. No matter rich or poor, people must eat watermelons, which must be cut into lotus shapes.

● Shanghai

The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in Shanghai is accompanied by osmanthus honey wine.

● Jiangsu

In addition to moon cakes, Nanjing people must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be in the market when cinnamon is fragrant, fat but not greasy, and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. The beauty goes without saying. "Guijiang", named after Qu Yuan's "Songs of Chu"? Shaosi life ","aid the north to close and drink cinnamon pulp ". Cinnamomum cassia pulp, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Women in the south of the Yangtze River are handy and turn the chanting in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and traveling in the market is called "walking on the moon".

● Zhejiang

The reason why the water shield bass stew in Hangzhou has become a dish at the Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet is not only because the water shield bass is delicious at this time, but also because of the historical fact that Hans Zhang abandoned his official position and returned to his hometown in the Jin Dynasty by borrowing the "water shield and bass" from homesickness. This story has not only become an eternal beauty talk, but also made water shield become homesick. Water shield is a Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner and a seasonal dish soup in August. Water shield, also known as horseshoe grass and watercress, is an aquatic perennial leafy grass plant. The roots, stems and leaves of water shield are not only green and fragrant, fresh and delicious, but also nutritious. Water shield can be picked in spring and autumn, but it is better to pick more water shield in autumn.

● Sichuan

Besides eating moon cakes, Sichuanese also kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, honey cakes and so on in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In western Sichuan, smoked ducks are a must-have for Mid-Autumn Festival, because at that time, the raw ducks had grown up and were fat and thin. The master selects the ducklings born in the same year, removes all feathers after slaughter, gut them, washes them, removes the wing tips and duck feet, marinates them with salt for one night, scalds them slightly in boiling water until their skins are tight, removes them, puts them in a smoking stove, smokes them with straw until they are brown, takes them out of the oven, marinates them in a pot, and changes the knife to a plate when eating, thus obtaining the smoked duck with golden red color, tender meat and strong smoke smell. The preparation of brine is very important in making smoked duck. Old bittern should be used for bittern, and timely spices, salt and sugar color should be added every time bittern is marinated. When bittern is marinated, the duck should be fully pressed into bittern with heavy objects, and the marinating time is generally about 2 minutes. If the time is too long, the duck meat will be old, which will affect the quality and taste.

● Guangdong

There are many kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies in Chaoshan, which has a lot to do with the cultural connotation of the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrated by Chaozhou people, the climate in Chaozhou and the agricultural production. It can be mainly divided into three categories: first, cakes, moon cakes from all over Chaoshan, sweet, salty, meaty, assorted and multi-flavored. There are also cakes, soft cakes and cloud cakes, all of which are Mid-Autumn Festival cakes, which are good for hipsters to send relatives. It can be said that it is a custom for hipsters to send moon cakes to relatives. Second, the Mid-Autumn Festival in the tidal zone, when the sky is crisp and the fruit is ripe, pomelo, persimmon, carambola, pineapple, pomegranate, olive and banana are another kind of food for the hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Third, agricultural taro and pumpkin, which are used by hipsters to make taro paste and melon pulp, are also popular among hipsters. Among them, the Mid-Autumn Moon Cake is an annual traditional food for hipsters. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is not a Chaoshan person who doesn't taste the moon cake. Although moon cakes can have various shapes and Chaoshan areas have their own characteristics, they all have the same feature, that is, they are required to be round. Taro, Ciba, etc. are also necessary for hipsters in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

● Guizhou

Guizhou mooncakes are different.