Eat duck
Mulao people in Yunnan, China, will buy cakes and kill ducks on August 15th to celebrate this traditional festival. In order to commemorate the three sugar sellers who mobilized villagers to kill the ghosts by selling sugar in the village, every family of the monks buys cakes and kills ducks on August 15 every year, so as to educate future generations not to forget the struggle against aggression.
Eat taro
Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters, and it means not believing in evil spirits. Qing Qianlong's "Chaozhou Prefecture Records" said: "Playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, peeling taro and eating it, is called peeling ghost skin." Stripping ghosts and eating them is a great spirit of Zhong Kui's exorcism, which is respectable.
Eat snails
As for eating snails in the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a record in Shunde County Records during the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty: "Looking at the sun in August, it is still delicious to eat snails." Folk believe that the mid-autumn snail can improve eyesight. According to analysis, snail meat is rich in nutrition, and vitamin A is an important substance of eye visual pigment. Eating snails can improve eyesight and make sense. But why must we be particularly keen on food in the Mid-Autumn Festival? It was pointed out that before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the snails were empty, there were no snails in the abdomen, so the meat quality was particularly fat. It is the best time to eat snails. Nowadays, in Guangzhou, many families have the habit of frying snails during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Eat pumpkin
Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated all over the south of the Yangtze River, and the custom of eating old pumpkins and cooking glutinous rice in August and a half is circulating in every household.
Drink osmanthus wine
Every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the bright moon, smell the Gui Xiang, think of WU GANG cutting osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a holiday enjoyment. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. Osmanthus fragrans is not only ornamental, but also edible. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are poems such as "Help the horse to fight and drink cinnamon pulp" and "Drink cinnamon and pepper pulp". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus wine in China has been quite long.
Eating lotus root box
Eating lotus root in Mid-Autumn Festival is also a sign of reunion, especially eating "lotus root box". Most people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang slice the lotus root, and the lower ends of each two slices are connected, and the stuffing made of meat and clam is sandwiched in the middle, and the noodles are fried until golden. This is also called lotus root cake, which has the same effect as moon cakes. At present, there are two main varieties of lotus root in the market, namely, seven-hole lotus root and nine-hole lotus root. Seven-hole lotus root is widely cultivated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. This variety has excellent texture, tender meat, crisp, sweet and white. Chinese medicine believes that after being cooked, lotus root changes from cool to warm, which is beneficial to the spleen and stomach, and has the effects of nourishing stomach, nourishing yin and benefiting blood.
Sacrificing the moon, enjoying the moon, Yue Bai, watching the tide, burning lanterns, guessing, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine, playing with lanterns and burning towers are traditional activities.
the Mongol nationality
Mongolians love to play the game of chasing the moon. People mounted on horses and galloped on the grassland in the silvery moonlight. They set their horses and galloped towards the west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that.
Zang (ZA)
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.
Dong nationality in Guangxi
The Dong people in Guangxi have the custom of "walking on the moon". On Mid-Autumn Night, Lusheng song and dance teams from all the cottages walked all the way to the nearby cottages, where they gathered with the villagers to enjoy the moon, sing and dance, and had a long night.
Deang nationality in Yunnan
The Deang people in Yunnan "string the moon". Young men and women of De 'ang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan Province, when the mid-autumn moon hangs high and it is particularly bright, the hills are blocked, and from time to time there is a melodious and beautiful Hulusheng, and young men and women gather together to "string the moon" and pour out their hearts. Some also set an engagement by sending betel nuts and tea through "stringing the moon".
Yi nationality in Yunnan
The traditional custom of Yunnan Yi people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "jumping on the moon". At night, all the men, women and children in the villages of this ethnic group gather in the open space in the mountain village. Girls with girdles and veils, boys with cloth belts, old men, old women and children all sing and dance passionately, especially the duets of young men and women expressing their love, as if the moon were moved by it, which made them more charming and bright.
Gelao (GL)
On the "Tiger Day" before the festival, the Gelao people slaughtered a bull in the whole village, leaving the heart of the bull for the mid-autumn night to worship the ancestors and welcome the new valley. They called it "August Festival".
the Korean ethnic group
Koreans use wooden poles and pine branches to build a "moon-watching frame". When the bright moon is lifted off, please invite several elected old people to climb the moon-watching frame. After the old man looks at the moon, he will light the moon-looking frame, beat the long drum and blow the flute, and dance together in "Farmhouse Dance".
Zhuang nationality in western Guangxi
The activities of "offering sacrifices to the moon and asking God" of Zhuang people in western Guangxi are more typical. Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, some of them are in the mid-autumn night. People set up a altar 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 symbolizes the tree, and it is also a ladder for the moon god to descend to heaven. Here, the ancient moon myth factors are preserved. The whole activity is divided into: invite the moon god to descend to earth, with one or two women as the spokesperson of the moon god; 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.
Li
Li people call Mid-Autumn Festival "August Meeting" or "Tone Festival". At that time, song and dance parties will be held in various market towns, and young men and women in each village will be led by a "tune-head" (that is, a team leader) to attend, and moon cakes, fragrant cakes, sweet cakes, flower towels, colorful fans and vests will be given to each other in droves. At night, they gather by the fire, roast game, drink rice wine and sing duets, and unmarried young people take the opportunity to find future partners. These belong to ethnic minorities.