What are the special activities for Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China, and enjoying the moon is an important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets have poems chanting the moon in their representative works, and the court and folk activities of appreciating the moon in Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are larger in scale. Watching the moon also means watching the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival activities began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties.

2. Sacrifice the moon

In ancient China, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The moon at night is to worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. Besides being similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival of Han nationality, there are a series of activities with strong national characteristics, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival of Zhuang nationality, so it is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

3. Mid-Autumn Lantern

In Huguang area, there is a custom of piling tiles on towers to burn lanterns, while in Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making lanterns. In the modern Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of burning lanterns is more popular. Guangdong has the largest number of lanterns, and every household ties lanterns to bamboo sticks ten days before the Mid-Autumn Festival. Make fruits, birds and animals, fish and insects and the words' Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival', and paint various colors on the paste paper.

The internal combustion candles of Mid-Autumn Night Lights are tied to bamboo poles with ropes, and tall trees are placed on tile eaves or terraces, or made into glyphs or various shapes with small lights and hung high in houses. The scale of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to that of Lantern Festival.

Step 4 eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes, the eating habits of Mid-Autumn Festival. Mooncakes were first seen in Liang Lumeng by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty. The round cake bait with stuffing is a seasonal food for the Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival. Up to now, there are still such moon cakes in Yexian and wei county. Take the meaning of reunion. Xianfeng Nine-year "Jinxiang County Records": "Mid-Autumn Festival: making moon cakes, buying watermelons and giving them to relatives and friends".

Step 5 observe the tides

In ancient times, Zhejiang Mid-Autumn Festival was another Mid-Autumn Festival activity besides watching the moon. The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which is described in detail in Mei Cheng's Seven Mao Fu in Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, Mid-Autumn tide watching became more popular. There are also records of watching the tide in Zhu Tinghuan's Ming Bu Wulin Past and Zi Mu's Meng Lianglu.