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Mongolians have a game of chasing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. How do they chase the moon?

The annual Mid-Autumn Festival is coming again. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, which started in the Song Dynasty and has a history of 1000 years. It is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival of Han nationality, but also a festival of more than 20 ethnic minorities in China, including Dong, Miao, Zhuang, Dai, Li, Manchu and Korean, with different festivals and customs. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Mongolians like to play the game of "Chasing the Moon". People are riding horses and galloping on the grassland in the silver moonlight. They galloped west, and the moon rose in the east and set in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon goes down, "chasing the moon" is more than that.

The Dong people in Guangxi have the custom of "walking on the moon". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Song Lusheng and the dance teams from various cottages walked all the way to the nearby cottages, and spent a long night enjoying the moon, singing and dancing with the villagers. Yunnan Deang people "string the moon". Young men and women of De 'ang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan Province, when the Mid-Autumn Moon is high and exceptionally bright, the hills are blocked, and the melodious sound of cucurbits comes from time to time. Young men and women gather together to "string the moon" and pour out their hearts. Some also set an engagement by sending betel nuts and tea through "string month".

The traditional custom of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival in Yunnan is to "jump on the moon". At night, men, women and children in this ethnic village gather in the open space of the mountain village. Girls wearing belts and veils, boys wearing cloth belts, old people, old women and children all sang and danced enthusiastically, especially the duet of young men and women expressing their love, as if the moon had been moved by it, which made it even more charming and bright. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the ethnic minorities in Yue Bai not only have different customs of Yue Bai and moon appreciation, but also hold some large-scale activities, such as a lively gathering in one village.

On the "Tiger Day" before the festival, the Gelao people slaughtered a bull in the whole village, leaving the heart of the bull for the Mid-Autumn Festival night to worship the ancestors and welcome the new valley, which is called the "August Festival"; Koreans use wooden poles and pine branches to build a "moon-watching frame". When the bright moon is lifted off, please invite several elected old people to board the moon viewing frame. After the old man looks at the moon, he will light the moon-looking frame, play the long drum and flute, and dance the "peasant dance" together;

The activity of "offering sacrifices to the moon and asking god" of Zhuang nationality in western Guangxi is more typical. Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, some are on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. People set up an altar in the open air at the end of the village to offer sacrifices and incense burners. On the right side of the table, a branch or bamboo branch about a foot high symbolizes a tree and is also a ladder for the moon god to descend to earth. There are ancient moon myth factors preserved here. The whole activity is divided into: inviting the moon god to descend to earth, with one or two women as the spokespersons of the moon god; God and man sing to each other; Luna divination fortune-telling; Singers sing mantras and send the moon god back to heaven in four stages.

Li people call Mid-Autumn Festival "August Meeting" or "Sound Adjustment". At that time, a song and dance party will be held in each market town, and young men and women in each village will be led by a "turn around" (that is, the leader). Moon cakes, sweet cake, cookies, flower towels, colored fans and vests will be presented to each other in droves. In the evening, they gather around the fire, roast game, drink rice wine and sing duets. Unmarried young people take the opportunity to find their future partners.

Although there are many Mid-Autumn Festival customs of all ethnic groups with different forms, they all have people's infinite love and yearning for life and a good wish of "May people grow old together".