It is a long-standing traditional custom in China. Whenever the weather is clear and the moon is bright and Gui Xiang is refreshing, every family will taste moon cakes and enjoy the moon, which is a special occasion for celebration and reunion. As a kind of food shaped like a full moon and containing good stuffing, moon cakes appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, moon cakes had become the Japanese and American points of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Eat ducks

Eating Ducks All the Mulao people in Yunnan, China should buy cakes and kill ducks on August 15th to celebrate this traditional festival.

Legend has it that once upon a time, where Mulao people lived, the mountains and waters were good, and the seasons were like spring. Six animals in every village are thriving, and the grain harvest is abundant every year. But one year, suddenly, a "ghost guy" came, killing and setting fires everywhere, robbing and committing adultery, which made the guy restless day and night. In the village, there is a candy seller and his son, who are determined to take the lead in resisting.

They thought of a plan: to sell sugar in the village to connect the villagers, and to kill the ghosts together on the night of August 15. Sure enough, most of the "ghosts" were killed, and some of them jumped into the river and turned into ducks. The mulao people took the ducks back to the village and killed them as a delicious meal to celebrate the victory.

From then on, in order to commemorate the three candy sellers, every family will buy cakes and kill ducks on August 15 every year, so as to educate future generations not to forget the struggle against aggression.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Drink osmanthus wine

Drinking osmanthus wine Every Mid-Autumn night, people look up at the osmanthus in the middle of the month, smell the Gui Xiang, drink a cup of osmanthus wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family and get together, which has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus fragrans is not only for viewing, but also has food value.

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Mid-Autumn Festival custom: playing with lanterns

Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many game activities, the first is to play with lanterns. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China, so we should play with lanterns on holidays. Of course, there is no large lantern festival in Mid-Autumn Festival like Lantern Festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly between families and children.

festive lantern (as displayed on the Lantern Festival)

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, in the Old Wulin Story, it was recorded that the Mid-Autumn Festival was a custom, and there was an activity of "putting a little red lamp into the river to drift and play". Playing lanterns in the 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.

In Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, Mid-Autumn Festival activities will be held on Mid-Autumn Night, and the trees will be erected, which means that the lights will be erected high. With the help of their parents, children make rabbit lanterns, carambola lanterns or square lanterns out of bamboo paper, hang them horizontally in short poles, and then erect them on high poles. They are high-tech and colorful, adding another scene to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Children often compete with each other to see who stands tall and much taller, and the lights are the most exquisite. In addition, there are sky lanterns, that is, Kongming lanterns, which are made of paper and tied into large lights. Candles are burned under the lights, and the hot air rises, making the lights fly in the air and make people laugh and chase. In addition, there are all kinds of lanterns carried by children to enjoy in the lower reaches of the moon.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival Food Culture

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival folklore