How do chinese people celebrate mid-autumn festival？ August 15th in Chinese lunar calendar is our traditional Mid-Autumn festival.It originated from praying to the moon and Autumn sacrificial customs in ancient China.It is also the second-largest tradition holiday after the Spring Festival.Because the night with a bright and full moon,many families chose to have a reunion,so it sometiomes called tuanyuan Festival.The Mid-Autumn festival is china’s han and most of the minorities traditional holiday, also popular in Korea, Japan and Vietnam and other neighboring countries.
Since ancient times, had formed a lot of festival activities about Mid-Autumn festival.Among these activities,there are not only some generally accepted customs, but also some customs full of regional and ethnic characteristics.
The first one is eat-mooncake.
For a long time, our people have accumulated a wealth of production methods about moon cake.In Ming and Qing Dynasty, the cake division has designed to use the myth of Moon Lady as the pattern to printed on the moon cake.In modern times,with specializedmoon cakeworkshop, the production ofmoon cake were more refined.Not only fastidious Stuffing,good looks,but also claified into different flavors such as flat-style, su-style, guang-style,tai-style and so on.Moon cakes as a symbol of good fortune and reunion, was entrusted with the good wishes of the people.The custom of eating and sending moon cakeshas been continued ever since.
The second one is enjoy the moon.
Since ancient times,our country has the customs of praying to the moon and enjoy the moon.In the zhou dynasty,every year would held activities to recept cold and praying to the moon on Mid-Autumn night.The custom of enjoy the moon was popular in Tang Dynasty.Appeared a lot of poetries about moon in this time.Such as Du Fu\'s \"Night Moon August 15 \", use moon as a symbol of reunion to serve as a foil to his homesickne; The poet su shi in song dynasty, poetized ‘shui diao ge tou’ at the Mid-Autumn night, use the moon\'s wax and waning to analogy people’s separation and reunion.The active of praying to the moon was more scale in Ming Qing palace and folk,our country still have many historical sites now,’bai yue tan’,’wang yue lou’ eg.Even today,the family sat together to enjoy the beauty of the bright moon is still one of the indispensable activities for the Mid-Autumn Festival.In addition to enjoy moon and eat moon cakes, different regions’ people were also celebrate the Mid-Autumn according to their own regional tradition and social customs.This formed different Mid-Autumn festival customs with strong local characteristics.For example,in some south ares it is a popular tradition for locals to view the Tides, appreciate the sweet osmanthus.In old Beijing is popular to play TuErYe.And ‘Tree Mid-Autumn’ in guangzhou, burning towers in anhui,fire dragon dance in Hong Kong,etc.Many minorities have customs of TiaoYue to celebrate Mid-Autumn festival, these activities greatly enriched our traditional festival culture.
