When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2018? What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and I believe everyone has started preparing mooncakes. Let’s take a look at when the Mid-Autumn Festival is in 2018. Autumn is a season of harvest, with the fragrance of flowers and fruits everywhere. Every day should be happy in such a good season. Come to Mr. Shui Mo to learn about every day of the eighth lunar month in 2018.When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2018?Lunar calendar August 15, 2018 Gregorian calendar September 24, 2018 Monday Libra Wuxu year Xinyou month Jiwei day Festival Mid-Autumn Festival God of Wealth God of Joy: Northeast God of Fortune: South God of Wealth: North Yin and Yang Noble Gods on duty today Yang Noble God: North Yin Noble God: Southwest Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2018 is on September 24th in the Gregorian calendar.What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?Eating Mooncakes According to the "Luozhong Jiwen", Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty ate mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival and found them delicious, so he ordered the imperial kitchen to wrap mooncakes with red silk and give them to the new scholars. This may be the earliest record of mooncakes we can see. Drinking Osmanthus Wine During the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the bright moon, smell the osmanthus fragrance, imagine Wu Gang chopping osmanthus, and drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine to celebrate the sweetness of the family and gather together. It has become a festival enjoyment. Osmanthus is not only ornamental, but also edible. In Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are the lines "Helping the horse to fight and pouring cinnamon juice" and "Pour cinnamon and pepper juice". It can be seen that the age of drinking osmanthus and making wine in my country is quite long. The folk activity of appreciating the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival began around the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it did not become a custom. By the Tang Dynasty, appreciating and playing with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular, and many famous poems by poets contain verses about the moon. By the Song Dynasty, a folk festival centered on moon-watching activities was formed and it was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon worship is held under the moon. The moon statue is placed in the direction of the moon. Red candles are lit. All family members worship the moon in turn, and then the reunion moon cakes are cut by the housewife. The person who cuts the cake should calculate in advance the total number of people in the family, including those at home and those away. The cake should not be cut too much or too little, and all should be of the same size. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, candles are lit in lanterns tied with ropes to bamboo poles and hung high on the eaves or terraces. Small lanterns are also used to form words or various shapes and hung high up in the house, commonly known as "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". Playing with Rabbit God Rabbit God is a clay toy for children to play and entertain during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Its shape is that of a human with a rabbit mouth and ears. There are two long ears on his head and a three-petal rabbit mouth, but other parts of his mouth are no different from those of a human. Nowadays, Rabbit God is no longer seen on the market. It is only exhibited as a folk cultural relic in places such as folk museums, or sold in handicraft shops. Young people know little about it, but old people talk about it with great relish. |
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