Activities of various ethnic groups to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Do you know that the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional festival in China, is coming soon? I will tell you below, let's have a look!

Tu nationality's "beating the moon"

The Tu people filled the basin with clear water and put the reflection of the moon in the basin. Then, people kept hitting the moon in the basin with pebbles, commonly known as "hitting the moon".

Tibetan custom of "searching for the moon"

* * * Tibetan compatriots in some areas celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with the custom of "searching for the moon". That night, young men, women and dolls, along the river, followed the bright moon reflected in the water, took pictures of the moon shadows in the surrounding ponds, and then went home to eat moon cakes.

Mongolian custom of chasing the moon

On the Mid-Autumn Moonlight, Mongolian men, women and children rode horses and galloped on the grassland under the silver moonlight. The moon rises in the east and sets in the west, but they put Ma Bin in the west and followed the footsteps of the moon closely. They didn't just "chase the moon" until it went down.

The Moon Sacrifice Custom of Ewenki Nationality

Ewenki compatriots celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with family reunion and moon worship as the main content. During the festival, they will also visit relatives and friends and entertain each other. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people gather around the campfire, singing and dancing until late at night.

The Custom of "Walking on the Moon" of Dong Nationality in Guangxi

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.

"Sacrificing the Moon and Asking God" of Zhuang Nationality in Guangxi

Every year in the middle of August in the summer calendar, or on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people will set up a sacrificial platform in the open air at the end of the village for offering sacrifices and incense burners. On the right side of the table, a branch or bamboo branch about a foot high symbolizes the community tree and also serves as a ladder for the moon god to descend to earth. The activities are divided into: please ask the moon god to come down to earth; God and man sing to each other; Luna divination fortune-telling; The singer sings a mantra song and sends the moon god back to heaven. There are four stages.

In addition, Zhuang people are used to using rice cakes and Yue Bai on bamboo raft houses in the river, while girls put lanterns on the water to measure their happiness all their lives, and sing the beautiful folk song "Please take care of the moon".

Buyi people steal old melons and cook glutinous rice.

Buyi people will wrap the stolen old melons in red cloth and shoot them all the way to families without children. When the owner of this family collects old melons, he must treat the delivery man to drink and have a snack. It is said that this will bring children to this family. For this stolen melon, the stolen family will not care. On the contrary, they will think it will bring them better harvest.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs in various countries

Indian Moon Festival * * * Diwali Festival * * *

The Indian Moon Festival originated from an ancient legend: in ancient India, a kind rabbit threw himself into the fire and became a burnt rabbit because he could not get the meat the emperor needed. The emperor put it on the moon to show his noble behavior. * * * Don't know much about the logic of Heaven Emperor * * *

Custom:

On the night of the full moon, young women in India stood on camels' backs with five overlapping clay pots on their heads, and climbed up the sand dunes slowly, praying for a bumper harvest of grains and the prosperity of six livestock.

"Moon Festival" is also called Diwali. Diwali usually lasts for five days to commemorate the victory of justice over evil, the victory of light over darkness, and the victory of wisdom over ignorance. During the festival, all buildings and water bodies are decorated with lights, candles or oil lamps.

Sri Lanka full moon festival

Sri Lanka's "Full Moon Festival" also has an ancient legend. According to legend, a long time ago, foreign enemies invaded at the full moon, and the local people were chased by foreign enemies and forced to flee into a forest to hide. The enemy mistakenly thought there was an ambush and finally retreated, saving the good people. * * * Just like the legendary "Year" in China * * *

In order to commemorate this full moon night, future generations will designate this day in September of the Gregorian calendar as the "full moon festival" every year.

Custom:

On the day of "Full Moon Festival", Sri Lanka has a national holiday. After the good men and women arranged the delicious food early, they all rushed to temples or shrines to listen to Yue Bai.

After listening to the worship, people sat around the yard, enjoying the food and sitting up to enjoy the moon. Until the moon sets, singing and dancing are fun.

Tanzania full moon festival

Let's just say that among all kinds of Mid-Autumn Festival in all the above countries, only the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tanzania is the cutest ~

Whenever the full moon night in September of the Gregorian calendar is Tanzania's "full moon night", the doors of every household are gently opened, and people quietly walk out of their homes, come to the open space, form a circle and sit down silently. Please pronounce the word * * * in Northeast dialect. It's so cute ~

It is not until the bright moon is high in the sky that people can break the silence and begin to talk enthusiastically, and various celebrations begin to celebrate the annual festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs in various places

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folk customs in Jiangnan are also varied. Nanjing people love to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, so they must eat osmanthus duck, a famous Jinling dish. "Sweet-scented osmanthus duck" should be listed in Gui Xiang. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small piece of sugar taro and pour cinnamon pulp on it. Beauty speaks for itself. "Guijiang" was named after Qu Yuan's "Helping the North to close its doors and drink Guijiang" in Chu Ci Shao Si Ming. Cinnamon pulp is a kind of sweet-scented osmanthus, which is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plum. Jiangnan women are good at turning poems and songs into delicacies on the table. People in Nanjing enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", the group sitting and drinking is called "full moon", and the market trip is called "walking on the moon".

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were Moon Tower and Moon Bridge in Nanjing. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a moon-watching building under Lion Mountain, all of which were for people to enjoy the moon, and most people played the Moon Bridge. When the bright moon is high, people climb the Moon Tower, play the Moon Bridge and enjoy the Jade Rabbit together. "Xiyue Bridge" is located in the Confucius Temple on Qinhuai River, next to the mansion of Ma Xianglan, a famous prostitute. On this night, the literati gathered on the bridge to play the flute, sing songs and reminisce about Niuzhu playing with the moon and writing poems for the moon, so it was called playing with the moon bridge. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, it gradually declined. Later generations have a poem saying: "The romantic Southern Song Dynasty has been exhausted, leaving the west wind to be a long Banqiao, but remember to take the Yuren Bridge and teach the flute under the moon." Longbanqiao, the original Moon Bridge. In recent years, the Confucius Temple in Nanjing has been renovated, some pavilions and pavilions in the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been restored, and the rivers have been dredged. Until the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can enjoy playing with the moon together.

In Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, incense is burned on Mid-Autumn Festival night. There are silks around the incense barrel, which depicts the scenery in the Moon Palace. There are incense sticks made of thread Kaori with paper kuixing and colorful flags on them. Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival Banquet with Sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine.

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival in Ji 'an County, Jiangxi Province, every village burns crocks with straw. When the crock is red, put the vinegar in it. At this time, the whole village will smell a fragrance. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xincheng County, grass lanterns are hung from the evening of August 1 1 to August 17.

Children build a hollow pagoda with bricks during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan County, Anhui Province. Curtains, plaques and other decorations are hung on the tower, and a table is placed in front of the tower, displaying various utensils to worship the "tower god". At night, lights and candles are lit inside and out. Children in Jixi Mid-Autumn Festival play Mid-Autumn firecrackers. Mid-Autumn Festival firecrackers are braided with straw, picked up and smashed stones after soaking, making a loud noise, which is a custom in Youlong. A fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense in it. When you visit the dragon, there are gongs and drums teams. They tour the village before being sent to the river.