The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival.
1, eat moon cakes
Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is a necessary custom in all parts of China. As the saying goes, "Moon cakes are sweet and fragrant when they are full on August 15th". The word moon cake originated from Liang Lumeng written by Wu in the Southern Song Dynasty, when it was just a snack. Later, people gradually associated moon viewing with moon cakes, symbolizing family reunion and bearing their thoughts. At the same time, moon cakes are also an important gift for friends to contact their feelings during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Today, eating moon cakes has become an essential custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. On this day, people eat moon cakes to show "reunion".
2. Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival
In some places in Guangdong, there is an interesting traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival". The tree is also vertical, which means that the lamp stands high, so it is also called "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". With the help of parents, children make rabbit lanterns, carambola lanterns or square lanterns out of bamboo paper, hang them horizontally on short poles, and then stand on high poles, shining with colorful lights, adding another scene to the Mid-Autumn Festival. Children often compete with each other to see who stands tall, much taller and has the most exquisite lighting. At night, the lights in the city are like stars, competing with the bright moon in the sky to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Step 3 enjoy the moon
The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. The early moon sacrifice was held in autumn, when people's attention was focused on the moon, and they could fully appreciate the beauty of the moon that was usually ignored. At this time, the upper class's understanding of the moon began to be rational, no longer a simple worship, and they gradually appreciated the full moon as a beautiful natural scene. This is the so-called "its moments of beauty" mentality.
Folk Mid-Autumn Festival began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it did not become a habit. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival centered on appreciating the moon was formed and officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Step 4 drink osmanthus wine
After autumn, osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, flowers begin to fall. People will pick osmanthus and brew osmanthus wine. Osmanthus fragrans wine brewed with Osmanthus fragrans is mellow, sweet and sour. After drinking, the lingering fragrance will last for a long time. Eating moon cakes and drinking osmanthus wine can relieve boredom, and osmanthus wine helps sleep. Besides, drinking osmanthus wine on Mid-Autumn Festival is actually meaningful. Osmanthus fragrans is a symbol of wealth and good luck. "Gui" and "Gui" are homophonic, which is a symbol of wealth. So osmanthus wine is very popular with people.
5. Eat reunion buns
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, bake a reunion dinner for the whole family to share. If the wanderer can't come back, just keep a copy until he goes home to taste his hometown. Reunion steamed stuffed bun, that is, the big round moon cake made by farmers in Guanzhong, Shaanxi Province, is made of refined wheat flour and has three to five layers of big round cakes, and all kinds of flowers are engraved around each layer. This cake looks very beautiful and symbolizes family reunion. Yue Bai was a gift to the moon, and Yue Bai later shared it. How many people in a family, how many pieces to cut. Together is a big round cake (reunion); When we are apart, each person takes a piece, which means a happy reunion and the whole family Qi Xin works together.
This is what I know about the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. What else do you know, my friend?