Moon cakes are one of the most famous traditional cakes in China. This is the diet custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes are round and shared by the whole family, symbolizing reunion and harmony. Ancient moon cakes were eaten as sacrifices in the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was popular in the court and then spread to the people. At that time, people generally called it "cookies" and "moon group". In the Ming Dynasty, it became a common dietary custom of the whole people.
2. Enjoy the moon
Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China. Appreciating the moon is an important custom in festivals. Many poets have moon-chanting poems in their masterpieces, and the court and folk moon-appreciating activities in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties were more extensive. Also refers to the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, watching the full moon. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival activities began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and reached its peak in Tang and Song Dynasties.
3. Burn the lamp
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lanterns to help the moonlight. Nowadays, there is still a custom of burning lamps on the tower with tiles stacked on it in Huguang area. The lighting custom of modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous. The internal combustion candles of Mid-Autumn Night Lights are tied to bamboo poles with ropes, erected on eaves or terraces, or made into zigzag or various shapes of small lights and hung on the roof, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival on trees" or "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival".
4. Eat osmanthus duck and drink osmanthus pulp
"Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be in the market when cinnamon is fragrant, fat but not greasy, and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon pulp. The beauty goes without saying. "Cinnamon pulp" was named after Qu Yuan's "Songs of Chu, Shaosi Ming" and "Helping the North to close its doors and drink cinnamon pulp".
Cinnamomum cassia pulp, a sweet osmanthus, was picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Women in the south of the Yangtze River are skillful in turning the chanting in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and traveling in the market is called "walking on the moon".
5, playing Mid-Autumn Festival cannon
Children build a hollow pagoda with bricks during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan, Anhui Province. Decorations such as curtains and plaques are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower to display all kinds of utensils to worship the "tower god". At night, lights and candles are lit inside and outside.
Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers. The Mid-Autumn Festival cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked and then picked up to hit the stone, making a loud noise and having the custom of swimming in the dragon. A fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense sticks inserted in it. When you visit the dragon, there are gongs and drums teams, which travel around the villages before being sent to the river.
Chinese government network-customs of Mid-Autumn Festival in various places