On mid-autumn night in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, men went boating and climbed the cliff, and women arranged a good banquet. No matter rich or poor, you must eat watermelon. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are drummers blowing drums along the door to ask for money. In Luochuan County, parents lead students to bring gifts for their husbands, and lunch is more than school dinners.

Unlike other places, zhouzhi county in Shaanxi does not eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the countryside, when the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, my uncle's family will send persimmons or apples to my nephew. If they are newlyweds, or have just had a child, and the child is not over one year old, the prospective uncle's family will have to make two boxes of steamed buns for his daughter and son-in-law. The delivery time is not necessarily on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because the Mid-Autumn Festival may catch up with the autumn harvest, it is possible to send persimmons or apples in advance. If it is delayed, it will be chosen on the Double Ninth Festival. This is the custom that Zhouzhi people used to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now Zhouzhi people don't arrange their own Mid-Autumn Festival this way.

Now people in rural areas in Zhouzhi are beginning to keep up with the people in the city, and they have started to eat moon cakes after the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, most of my uncle's gifts to my nephew are persimmons or apples. Of course, there are also moon cakes, but less. Moon cakes are usually given to their parents by their daughters.

Fujian Province

Women in Pucheng County walk through Nanpu Bridge to eat and live longer. Hanging lanterns is a good omen for asking the moon palace for children in the mid-autumn night custom in Jianning. Shanghang County, Mid-Autumn Festival, when there are more children than Yue Bai, please visit your aunt. The method is that body double, who takes a bamboo basket as her moon-aunt, will shake the bamboo basket by herself if there is a god coming, so as to predict good or ill luck according to the number of times of shaking. When Longyan people eat moon cakes, parents will control round cakes with a diameter of two or three inches in the center for their elders to eat, which means that the secret can't be told to the younger generation. This custom comes from the legend that moon cakes contain anti-Yuan news about killing Tartars. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jinmen, Yue Bai should pay homage to God. Worship the heavens and make it into a peach-shaped red called "Tiangong". Yue Bai's red is made into the shape of pigs and sheep, and the number must be nine pigs and sixteen sheep.

Shanxi province

Lu 'an Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet invites son-in-law. Yongning Mid-Autumn Festival worships the Lord of the Lunar Star. 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. Shilou county worships the city god in Mid-Autumn Festival.

Jiangsu Province

Burning incense in the mid-autumn night in Wuxi County. There is gauze and silk around the incense bucket, and the scenery in the moon palace is painted. There are also incense sticks woven with thread incense, with paper kuixing and colorful banners inserted on them. Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is accompanied by osmanthus honey wine.

Hebei Province

Wanquan county calls the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day", and the moonlight paper is painted with the images of Taiyin Xingjun and Guandi reading the Spring and Autumn Festival at night. Hejian county takes the mid-autumn rain as a bitter rain. If it rains in the Mid-Autumn Festival, the vegetables in that year will definitely taste bad.

Jiangxi province

On the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival in Ji 'an County, every village burns crocks with straw. After the crock is red, put the vinegar in it. In this way, the fragrance wafts all over the village. After the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xincheng County, grass lanterns were hung from the eleventh night to greet them in the city street with drum music until the 17th.

Sichuan Province

The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County is called "Watching the Meeting" for offering sacrifices to the land gods and performing zaju, vocal music and cultural relics. In addition to eating moon cakes, Sichuanese also fight, kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, honey cakes and so on in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Some places also light orange lights. Hollow out oranges, light candles and hang them at the door to celebrate. There are also children who put incense on grapefruit and move along street dance, which is called "dancing meteor balls".

Guangdong Province

Ruyuan County Records also records that eating taro in Mid-Autumn Festival can cure scabies. Guangdong Mid-Autumn Festival also has the custom of children carrying lanterns. The materials of the lamp are the pomelo lamp carved with red pomelo skin, the lantern with jasmine flower knot, and the bright lamp with the fragrance of flowers and fruits makes people fondle it. Young unmarried people in Dongguan also burn incense and candles under the moon, begging the old man to fix them up. Xiapu has the custom of dragging stones in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Drag stones were invented by Qi Jiguang, who tied ropes with stones, dragged them along the street and bravado them to scare the enemy.

Shandong Province

On August 15th, farmers in Qingyun County offered sacrifices to the God of Earth Valley, which was called "Young Miao Society". Zhucheng, Linyi, Jimo and other places have to pay homage to their ancestors in addition to the moon. Landlords in guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Postal City also entertain tenants in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival eats a festive food called "Wheat Arrow".

Shaanxi province

On mid-autumn night in Xixiang County, men went boating and climbed the cliff, and women also arranged a good banquet. No matter rich or poor, you must eat watermelon. Please have a trumpeter preach along the door in mid-autumn to ask for a reward, just like Dragon Boat Festival and New Year's Eve. In Luochuan County, parents lead students to bring gifts for their husbands during Mid-Autumn Festival, and lunch is more than school dinners.

Anhui province

On the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan, children build a hollow pagoda with bricks. Ornaments such as curtains and plaques are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower to display all kinds of utensils for worshipping the "tower god." At night, lights and candles are lit inside and outside, which is bright and lovely. Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers. The Mid-Autumn Festival cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked and then picked up to hit the stone, making a loud noise and having the custom of swimming in the dragon. A fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense sticks inserted in it. When you visit the dragon, there are gongs and drums teams, which travel around the villages before being sent to the river.

Some places have also formed many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs. Besides enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are Hong Kong's dancing dragon, Anhui's piling pagoda, Guangzhou's Mid-Autumn Festival, Jinjiang's burning tower boy, Suzhou Shihu's watching the moon, Dai's Yue Bai, Miao's jumping on the moon, Dong's stealing moon dishes and Gaoshan's holding dance.