What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Eat mooncakes

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, eating moon cakes is an indispensable custom. Mooncakes symbolize reunion and happiness, and the flavors and shapes of mooncakes vary from region to region, such as Cantonese, Soviet, and Beijing styles.

2. Enjoy the moon

Appreciating the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival has been a custom since ancient times. People will enjoy the moon with family or friends when the moon is the roundest and brightest, and spend this reunion festival together.

3. Light the lamp

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, people burn lanterns outside their houses or in their yards to offer sacrifices to the moon god. This custom is second only to the Lantern Festival in scale, where people hang small lanterns in various shapes on high places, and families gather under the lanterns to admire the moon and eat moon cakes, creating a warm atmosphere.

4. Watch the tide

In addition to watching the moon and eating moon cakes, tide watching is also one of the major events of the Mid-Autumn Festival. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other regions, people gather along the coast to watch the spectacular tide.

5. Walk the moon

Walking on the moon is a special activity of the moon, people will be in the bright moonlight, wearing their favorite clothes, three or five people, the streets, boating on the river, climbing tall buildings to enjoy the moon, talking and laughing.

6. Fire Dragon dance

The fire dragon dance is the most traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong. On the evening of the 14th day of the eighth lunar month, the Tai Hang area of Causeway Bay will hold a grand fire dragon dance activity.

7. Play the rabbit

Playing rabbit is a popular custom around Beijing. It originated in the late Ming Dynasty and gradually evolved into children's Mid-Autumn Festival toys. The image of the rabbit is lovely, and in the folk customs around Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival is an essential activity.

8. Drink osmanthus wine

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, osmanthus flowers are in full bloom, and people will make osmanthus nectar wine with them. Tasting osmanthus wine has become a wonderful enjoyment of this festival.

9. Play with lanterns

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China, playing lanterns is an essential game activity for Mid-Autumn Festival. Families and children will make a variety of lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival, such as dragons, phoenixes, fish, birds, and so on.

10. Stealing moon food

Stealing the moon dish is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom popular in Taiwan and Dong Township in Hunan Province. Unmarried women in Taiwan steal spring Onions or vegetables, while people in Dong Township in Hunan province enjoy fruits and vegetables sprinkled with fairy dew together on Mid-Autumn nights.