What's interesting about Tongling Mid-Autumn Festival?
Torch Festival
In northern Anhui, besides eating moon cakes, Torch Festival is the most distinctive folk custom for local people to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival. Speaking of the origin of Torch Festival, we can't help but mention the Red Scarf Army Uprising led by Liu Futong, a farmer at the end of Yuan Dynasty more than 600 years ago, because Liu Futong was from Fuyang, Anhui Province, and the peasant uprising he launched here left a much-told story and festival folk custom.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, children will imitate the red scarf army, tie wheat straw and straw into three or four feet long handfuls, and shake them left and right after lighting them in the wild, which seems to be a signal. The local custom is to throw torches. This custom has lasted for a long time.
What to eat at Mid-Autumn Festival in northern Anhui?
mooncake
Eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional custom in China, which will continue in any region, so during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Anhui people will also eat moon cakes. Nowadays, there are more and more flavors of moon cakes. Internet celebrities' quicksand moon cakes, ice cream moon cakes, and best-selling salted egg yolk moon cakes, traditional five-kernel moon cakes and fresh meat moon cakes are all people's favorites.
Big cake
Anhui Fuyang pie is famous far and wide. Mix fresh glutinous rice flour with sugar, sesame, walnut kernel and peanut powder. Fuyang pie is sweet, soft and chewy. It is a traditional pastry from snacks to pie in Anhui. Therefore, this kind of cake is indispensable on the Mid-Autumn Festival table.
Fermented rice wine dumplings
Solid jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour and homemade liqueur can make delicious wine jiaozi. When everyone comes to the Mid-Autumn Festival, a bowl of fermented jiaozi is not only delicious, but also represents the meaning of reunion, so it is very suitable for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
What are the unique customs in Tongling?
Send year
During the Qing Dynasty, Tongling had the custom of paying New Year's greetings on the 15th day of the first month, which was quite lively and still popular in a few rural areas.
The first month is the new year, but this new year also has a beginning and an end. Generally speaking, the night of the twelfth lunar month (that is, New Year's Eve) is the beginning of the new year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is the end of the new year.
Because this new year is celebrated by setting off firecrackers on New Year's Eve; Then, after this year, we will hold a ceremony to send it away.
This ceremony is an activity of setting off firecrackers on the fifteenth day of the first month. Strangely, firecrackers are set off on this day, neither in the early morning nor at night, but at two or three o'clock in the afternoon.