What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, river lamp. The purpose is to purdue and pray.

2. Ancestor worship. Sacrifice ancestors. July is the first harvest season of crops. People used to offer the cooked new rice to their ancestors and share it with them.

3. burn paper money. Send money to relatives of deceased ancestors for fear that they have no money to spend underground; Burn it at the crossroads and give some charity to the homeless wild ghosts, hoping that they will stop robbing their ancestors of money.

4, burn incense and burn guns. Burning incense and setting off firecrackers, on the one hand, scare away ghosts and ghosts passing by, on the other hand, support them (the living are really contradictory).

5. Sacrifice the land. Sacrificing land and crops and scattering offerings into fields are also popular among the people. After burning the paper, wrap it on the ears of crops with cut five-color paper. Legend has it that autumn can avoid hail and get a bumper harvest. At the same time, some places have to go to Houtu Temple to offer sacrifices. In some places, folk customs will hang hemp and grain at the door (such as Dingxiang County).

6. Pray for a bumper harvest. Every household should burn incense at home, pray for a bumper harvest of rice, and insert fragrant branches on the ground in the process. This is called "paving the field" (symbolizing "transplanting rice"), and the more you insert, the better, symbolizing the bumper harvest of rice in autumn.