"Mid-Autumn Festival" is the name of Taoism, which is called "July 30" (or "July 14") in folk customs. Its emergence can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. Festivals are related to the cycle of Yin and Yang in ancient culture. In the Book of Changes, "seven" is a changing number and a number of resurrection.
July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people are required to worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.
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Different customs in different places:
1, Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County took fruits, preserved meat, wine, money, etc. to the ancestral graves on July 15th. And hold the hemp valley to the field stalk, which is called "recommending new things" The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County worships ancestors with fresh food, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15th, Qinghe County went to the grave to offer sacrifices to sweep, and presented her daughter with steamed sheep.
2. Shanxi: Scholars in Yonghe County sacrificed Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep in the Mid-Autumn Festival to compete with the gods. It is said that this can increase the production of sheep. Meat was also given to relatives, and those who were poor and had no sheep steamed noodles in the shape of sheep instead.
The farmers in Yangcheng County made cats, tigers and grains out of wheat crumbs and sacrificed them in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". Mayi County People's Mid-Autumn Festival takes wheat flour as a child's shape, named "Mianren", and presents children from relatives to each other. Farmers in Xin county hang five-color paper on the ridge of the field on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
3. Henan: When Zhongyuan worships the local officials in Shangqiu County, a paper flag is hung at the door, which is said to prevent insects. Flying kites on the Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. On July 15th, Zhi County drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned paper gongs in the circle to worship the ancestors.
4. Shandong: Long Island fishermen made boats out of wooden boards, put a note on it "for ×××" or a memorial tablet for drowning people, put food, clothes, shoes and socks on it, and then lit candles. Married men put the boats into the sea.
In Zhanhua County, each family collected Ma Ke and fresh grass leaves to build a shed, which is called "Ma Wu", and asked the ancestors to be placed in it for sacrifice. Duling County calls the Mid-Yuan Festival the Pinch Festival, and every family eats humble meals.
5. Shaanxi: On July 15th, Lintong County burned paper to honor Ma Gu. In Chenggu County, farmers will drink on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "hanging hoe". Delayed farmers, Mid-Autumn Festival in the morning to the field, choose the highest and densest ear of rice, hang a five-color paper flag, named "Tian Fang".
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