1. Burning incense sticks

Jiangsu burns incense sticks on Mid-Autumn Festival night. The incense cup is surrounded by gauze and silk, and the scenery of the Moon Palace is painted on it. There are also incense buckets made of incense threads, with Kuixing and colorful flags tied with paper inserted on them. Shanghai folk still have the custom of burning incense and fighting with each other. ?

2. Worshiping ancestors

The Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Chaoshan area of ??Guangdong. On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, each family hall sets up a stage to set up sacrifices, places ancestors and gods, and offers various offerings. After the sacrifice, the sacrifices are cooked one by one, and the whole family has a sumptuous dinner at the same time.

3. Burn lanterns

Burn lanterns to help with the moonlight. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, candles are burned in lamps and tied to bamboo poles, on tile eaves, on terraces and other high places, commonly known as "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Standing Mid-Autumn Festival".

Extended information;

Every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, it is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Zhongqiu. The moon on August 15th is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "Yuexi" and "August Festival".

On this night, when people look up at the bright moon in the sky, they naturally look forward to family reunions. Wanderers who are far away from home also use this to express their longing for their hometown and relatives. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the "Reunion Festival".

Our people have had the custom of "autumn twilight and evening moon" in ancient times. On the eve of the moon, worship the moon god. By the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night would be held to welcome the cold and worship the moon. Set up a large incense table and place mooncakes, watermelons, apples, dates, plums, grapes and other offerings. Mooncakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut into lotus shapes.

Under the moon, the moon statue is placed in the direction of the moon, the red candle is burned high, the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the housewife cuts the reunion mooncakes. The person who cuts the food must calculate in advance how many people are in the family. Those who are at home and those who are out of town must be counted together. They cannot cut more or less, and the sizes must be the same.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival Folklore