1, enjoy the moon. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets have poems about the moon in their masterpieces. By the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was more popular to enjoy the moon. On this day, "your family decorated the pavilions and the people competed for the restaurant to play with the moon". The activities of enjoying the moon in Yue Bai in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were more extensive, and many historic sites such as Yue Bai Altar, Moon-worshipping Pavilion and Moon-gazing Tower remain in various parts of China.
2. Eat moon cakes. People in urban and rural areas in China have the custom of eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". Moon cakes were originally used as sacrifices to the moon god. The word "moon cakes" first appeared in Wu Zimu's Dream of the Liang Lu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a cake-shaped food like Linghua cake. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with mooncake tasting, which symbolizes family reunion.
3. Yue Bai. There is a custom of Yue Bai in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, mainly for women and children. There is a common saying that "men don't have a full moon, and women don't sacrifice stoves". In the evening, when the bright moon rises, women set up a case in the yard and on the balcony to pray.
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In ancient China, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was the most elegant in the court. For example, eating crabs was popular in the court in the Ming Dynasty. After the crabs were steamed with cattails, everyone sat around and tasted them, accompanied by wine and vinegar. Drink Su Ye Tang after eating and wash your hands with it. The banquet table area is full of flowers, pomegranates and other fashionable things, and the mythical dramas of the Mid-Autumn Festival are performed. In the Qing Palace, a screen was placed eastward in a certain courtyard, and cockscomb flowers, soybean technology, taro, peanuts, radishes and fresh lotus roots were put on both sides of the screen.
There is a square table in front of the screen, with an extra-large moon cake on it, surrounded by cakes and fruits. After the moon festival, the moon cake was cut into several pieces according to the royal population, and each person symbolically tasted it, which was called "Eating Reunion Cake".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival
People's Network-2016 Mid-Autumn Festival: the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in various places