"Mid-Autumn Festival" is the name of Taoism. In folklore, it is called "July and a half" (or "July 14th"). Its origin can be traced back to the worship of ancestors and related sacrifices in ancient times. Festivals are related to the cycle of yin and yang in ancient culture. In Zhouyi, "seven" is a changing number and a resurrected number.
July is auspicious and filial. Late July is a folk festival to celebrate the harvest and return the land in early autumn. Many crops are ripe. People should offer sacrifices to their ancestors, offering sacrifices such as new rice, and offering sacrifices to their ancestors in autumn. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to worship ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial piety.
Customs vary from place to place:
1, Hebei: Botou City and Nanpi County will bring fruits, dried meat, wine and money to the ancestral graves on July 15. Holding Magu to stalk the field, he called it "Jianxin". The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County is called "sending sheep" because it sacrifices ancestors with fresh food and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren. On July 15 in Qinghe County, he went to the grave to offer sacrifices and gave steamed noodles to his daughter.
2. Shanxi: The literati in Yonghe County offered sacrifices to Kuixing on this day. The shepherd family in Zhangzi County slaughtered sheep on the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that this can increase the output of sheep. Meat is also distributed to relatives, and people who are poor and have no sheep use steamed noodles instead of sheep.
Farmers in Yangcheng County use cereal to make cats, tigers and grains, and make sacrifices in the fields, which is called "going to the fields". People in Mayi County use wheat flour in the shape of children during the Spring Festival. Farmers in Xinxian hang colorful paper on the ridge on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
3. Henan: When the local officials of the Central Plains in Shangqiu County offered sacrifices, a paper flag was hung at the door. It is said that it can prevent insects. Flying kites in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County. On July 15, Xixian drew a gray circle in front of the door and burned the paper in the circle to pay homage to his ancestors.
4. Shandong: Long Island fishermen use wooden boards to make boats, stick "XX for use" notes, or drop people's monuments, put on food, clothes, hats, shoes and socks, and then light candles. Married men put the boat into the sea.