About 100 words introduce Mid-Autumn Festival and its customs.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times.

At first, the Mid-Autumn Festival was held on the autumnal equinox of the 24th solar terms of the lunar calendar, and later it was moved to August 15th of the summer calendar. In some places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is set on August 16 in the summer calendar.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival custom:

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lanterns to help the moon. Nowadays, there is still the custom of piling tiles and burning lamps on towers in Huguang area. Jiangnan has the custom of making lantern boats. The custom of burning lanterns in modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous. Today, Zhou Yunjin and He He said in their article "Talking about the Four Seasons": "The lanterns in Guangdong are the most prosperous, and every household uses bamboo sticks to tie lanterns ten days before the festival.

Make words such as fruits, birds and animals, fish and insects and celebrate the 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 hung high on tile eaves or terraces, or made of small lights in zigzag or various shapes and hung on the heights of houses, commonly known as Mid-Autumn Festival on trees or in the vertical direction.

Rich people can hang lights as high as tens of feet. Families gather under the lamp to enjoy drinking, and ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and glass. The custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.

Extended data:

There are many games in Mid-Autumn Festival, the first is playing lanterns. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major Lantern Festival in China, so we should play with lanterns in festivals. Of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival does not have such a large lantern festival, and playing with lanterns is mainly between families and children.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, it was recorded in the story of the old Wulin that the Mid-Autumn Festival was a custom, and a little red light was put into the river to drift and play. Lantern playing in Mid-Autumn Festival is mostly concentrated in the south.

For example, in the autumn festival in Foshan, there are all kinds of colored lights: sesame, eggshell, wood shavings, straw, fish scales, chaff, melon seeds and flowers.

In Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to all kinds of lanterns tied with paper and bamboo for children to play with, there are also simple grapefruit lanterns, pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns. The so-called grapefruit lamp is to empty the grapefruit, carve a simple pattern, put on a rope and light a candle inside, which is very elegant. Pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns are also made by removing pulp.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival