What are the special traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The 15th day of August every year is the traditional festival - Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, most people will go home to reunite with their families to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. What other customs are there during the Mid-Autumn Festival besides eating mooncakes? The eighth month of the lunar calendar is also called "Mid-Autumn", and every autumn rain brings a chill. Mr. Shui Mo will accompany you every day of the eighth lunar month of 2018.2018 Mid-Autumn Festival Almanac Query:Lunar calendar: August 15, 2018Gregorian calendar: Monday, September 24, 2018 Libra 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 [Do not use it on days when death is a serious matter] Accepting money, hiding treasures, accepting marriage proposals, seeking an heir, seeking medical treatment, offering sacrifices, fasting and praying, migrating, attending school, planting, and registering for a certificate [Today’s taboos in the almanac] [Do not use it on days when death is a serious matter] Opening the market, traveling, seeking wealth, building, raising livestock, breaking ground, buying property, breaking ground, building embankments, releasing water, opening warehouses, and burying people The traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival include:1. Watching the tide: In ancient times, in addition to moon-watching during the Mid-Autumn Festival, watching the tide was another major Mid-Autumn Festival event in Zhejiang. The custom of watching the tide during the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. As early as the Han Dynasty, there was a very detailed description of it in Mei Cheng's "Seven Hairs". After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching the tide during the Mid-Autumn Festival became more popular. There are also records of watching the tide in Zhu Tinghuan's "Supplement to Wulin Old Stories" in the Ming Dynasty and Wu Zimu's "Dreams of the Southern Song Dynasty" in the Song Dynasty.2. Lighting lanterns: On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, light candles in lanterns and tie them with ropes to bamboo poles, which are then erected high on the eaves or terraces. Small lanterns can also be 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". The lanterns hung by wealthy families could be several meters high, and the family members would gather under the lanterns to drink and have fun. Ordinary people would put up a flagpole and two lanterns, also to have fun. The city is full of lights, like a world of glass. "It seems that from ancient times to the present, the scale of the custom of lighting lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival. 3. Guessing riddles: On the night of the full moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns are hung in public places. People gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns. As this is a favorite activity for most young men and women and love stories are also told during these activities, guessing riddles during the Mid-Autumn Festival has also evolved into a form of love between men and women. 4. Eating mooncakes: Moon-watching and moon-cake eating are essential customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of China. As the saying goes, "The moon is full on the 15th day of August, and the Mid-Autumn mooncakes are fragrant and sweet." The word mooncake originated from Meng Lianglu by Wu Zimu in the Southern Song Dynasty. At that time, it was just a kind of snack food. Later, people gradually combined moon-watching with mooncakes, symbolizing family reunion and expressing longing. At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift for friends to keep in touch during the Mid-Autumn Festival. 5. Burning Tower: The game of burning tile lamps (also known as burning flower towers, burning tile towers, and burning foreign towers) is widely spread in the south. As recorded in Volume 5 of the Records of Customs of China: In Jiangxi, "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, children usually pick up tiles in the wild and pile them into a round tower with many holes. At dusk, they put firewood in the tower under the bright moon and burn it. When the tiles are red hot, they pour kerosene on the fire, and in an instant, the whole field is red and bright as day. 6. Enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine <br /> People often eat moon cakes and enjoy osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat various foods made with osmanthus, with cakes and candies being the most common. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, gazing up at the red osmanthus in the moon, smelling the osmanthus fragrance, drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine, and celebrating the sweetness of the family have become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival. In modern times, people mostly use red wine instead. |
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