Traditional food customs: eating mooncakes, snails, osmanthus wine and pumpkins
Food customs in various places
Beijing: traditional mooncakes with tapioca red and tapioca white and pulp mooncakes" "Making syrup" refers to a method of making mooncake dough, which involves boiling syrup and adding a certain proportion of butter. If you are a Hui people, you need to add butter instead of butter. The dough has a loose texture and a fragrant filling. August is the height of autumn and crab fat. Beijing especially pays attention to tasting drunken crabs
Shanxi: Lu'an people entertain their sons-in-law. Datong County calls moon cakes reunion cakes, which are about two or three feet long, and there is a custom of keeping vigil.
Shaanxi: In Xixiang County, men go boating and climb cliffs at night, while women arrange a banquet. Rich or poor, they must eat watermelon, which is cut into lotus shapes.
Shandong: Eat a kind of food called "Maijian" in Jimo area
Sichuan: Smoked duck in western Sichuan (very difficult to make)
Guizhou : Guizhou-style mooncakes
Shanghai: Osmanthus Rice Wine
Jiangsu: Jinling’s famous dish Osmanthus Duck is a must-eat in Nanjing
Guangdong: There are many Mid-Autumn Festival foods in Chaoshan, which is consistent with Shantou people The cultural connotation of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the tideland climate, and agricultural production have a great impact. It is mainly divided into three categories: first, moon cakes, meat, sweet and salty, etc.; second, fruits, grapefruit, persimmons, carambolas, pineapples, pomegranates, olives and other three agricultural products, taro and pumpkin
Zhejiang: Hangzhou water shield braised seabass
Fujian: Betel nut and taro roasted duck
Taiwan: Kaohsiung County teal duck (also a duck) Meinong area has a food called "vegetable cake" Flour is used as the raw material, and the middle is baked with brown sugar.
Customs
Appreciating the moon, lighting lanterns, watching tides in Qiantang, guessing quizzes and dancing the fire dragon (Causeway Bay, Hong Kong), burning pagoda lanterns, making pagodas, and throwing handkerchiefs to attract marriage ( Fujian) Stealing melon seeds and praying (Hengyang, Hunan) Playing with Lord Rabbit Account Cleaning Day
Mid-Autumn Festival customs in various places
A man in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province went boating on a cliff at night. Parents in Luochuan County led their students to visit their teachers
Shanxi son-in-law asks his new daughter-in-law to give gifts to her father-in-law when she comes home
Shandong Qingyun County worships the earth god
Jiangsu Guanyue (rich people in Jiangnan area Many moon-viewing towers built a long time ago)
In the evening, every village in Ji'an County, Jiangxi Province uses straw to burn earthen pots. After it is red, pour vinegar into it, and the fragrance fills the village
Pucheng, Fujian Province Women walk across Nanpu Bridge to pray for longevity
Guangdong women and children worship the moon (men do not)
Customs of ethnic minorities
Gaoshan Dai people worship the moon Mongolian people Chasing the moon, the Dong people steal moon vegetables, the Tibetan people look for the moon, the Axi people dance on the moon, the Hezhe people pay homage to the Miao people, they jump on the moon, the Buyi people steal old melons