Traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival:

1. Eating moon cakes

As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and the moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes were originally used as sacrifices to the moon god. The word "moon cakes" first appeared in Wu Zimu's Dream of the Liang Lu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Linghua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncake tasting, which symbolizes family reunion.

2. Sacrifice the moon

Under the moon, put the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cake. Cut the people in advance to calculate the number of people in the whole family, at home and in the field, all together, can not cut more or less, the size should be the same.

3. Burning lamps

The candle burning in the mid-autumn night lamp is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope and hung high on a tile eaves or terrace, or hung in a zigzag or various shapes with small lamps at the height of the house, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival in the tree" or "Mid-Autumn Festival in the vertical direction".

4. 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 glass 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. At the moment, the Osmanthus Festival is being held in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. The citizens may wish to visit the eastern suburbs with their families, enjoy the flowers and spend the festival.

5. Eating taro

Eating taro in the Mid-Autumn Festival means to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters in many places, 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." Peel taro and eat it, but it is still full of Zhong Kui's exorcism.

6. Playing with lanterns

Playing with lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south. For example, at the aforementioned Foshan Autumn Festival, there were all kinds of colorful lights: sesame lights, eggshell lights, wood shavings lights, straw lights, fish scales lights, chaff lights, melon seeds lights and flowers and trees lights of birds and animals, which were amazing.