1, Purdue University/Shigu. Every year on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month in Chaoshan area, there is a custom activity called "Purdue". Purdue, that is, Purdue sentient beings, is also called "Stone Drum". Stone drums, that is, giving food to lonely and hungry ghosts, also means giving food to lonely people. Stone drums, also known as offering sacrifices to orphans, refer to ghosts and hungry ghosts who offer sacrifices to the underworld. On the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, stone drums were generally held in Chaoshan urban and rural areas in the old society.

2. ancestor worship. Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of hipsters should also worship their ancestors. The stone drum pudu in Chaoshan is not limited to this day; However, this day is a solemn day, even more grand. Generally, organizations such as mountain ponds or parent-teacher conferences are kind enough to prepare three sacrifices, repair bare solitary bones and offer them in a shop. The grand people held a Yulan celebration, set up a solitary shed (altar), displayed a large number of three sacrifices, wine rice, paper money and paper clothes, and invited monks and Taoist priests to chant Buddhist scriptures and worship Buddha. In addition to the food on it, there are clothes, hats, bamboo hats and so on. There are even live pigs, live sheep and live cattle. After the worship, distribute the physical objects, or distribute the bamboo stick brand according to the number for the audience to grab. It's called grasping loneliness.

3, drag the dead ghost. "Dragging the dead" means inviting the dead to talk through a wizard. This witch is usually a woman. People covered her eyes with cloth, lit incense, and people around her chanted incantations to fascinate her. The wizard has become a medium for people to talk with ghosts, and people can talk with the dead through her. When the "dead ghost" finished dragging, he said, "The sunset in the western hills is dim, everyone is closed, and chickens, geese, birds and ducks are all on the fence. Please ask Sister Ruan to go home." Only in this way can the wizard be freed from his coma and let him recover.

4, put the flame mouth. When expanding the flame mouth, we should send a boat back to the Han River and send it to Sanheba, which is more than 100 miles away from the city. Before the ceremony begins, you should light a soybean oil lamp made of a big pottery bowl on your return trip, throw them into the river and lead ghosts from all directions to sacrifice.

5, swimming lights. In the past, in the afternoon of Mid-Autumn Festival in Chao 'an and other places, children were busy making carp lanterns. They wanted to imitate the Lantern Festival and have some fun. Some people put a carp on a bamboo stick at home, and then put colorful flags, incense sticks and candles on their bodies to light a fire, which is a simple carp fish lamp.

6. Pray for a bumper harvest. Sacrificing ghosts and ghosts at the Lantern Festival is usually associated with praying for a bumper harvest. On the night of the stone drum, every household should burn incense and pray at home and put incense on the ground. This is called "planting rice" (transplanting rice). The more you plant, the better, which symbolizes the bumper harvest of rice in autumn.