1, handmade lanterns
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, people will light exquisite lanterns to add festive atmosphere to the festival. You can make beautiful lanterns by hand with materials such as paper, colored paper and bamboo sticks. You can try different shapes and designs, such as animals, flowers and traditional patterns to show your creativity and imagination.
2. Create Mid-Autumn Festival poems or stories
You can express your thoughts and feelings about Mid-Autumn Festival in words. You can write a Mid-Autumn Festival poem to express your thoughts about your family, praise the moon, or paint the curtain of the Mid-Autumn Festival night. You can also write a Mid-Autumn Festival story and tell a warm story about reunion and love. Show your literary talent and creativity through the magic of words.
3. Design Mid-Autumn Festival greeting cards or handwritten letters
You can design and make a unique Mid-Autumn Festival greeting card with paper, pigments, stickers and other materials. You can write words of blessing and thanks to relatives and friends on the greeting card, and add exquisite illustrations and decorations to make the card more personalized and creative. In addition, you can also choose the traditional way to write a thank-you letter or a blessing letter with a pen to express your thoughts and feelings.
Traditional activities of Mid-Autumn Festival:
1, enjoy the moon
The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. It is said that the moon is closest to the earth that night, and it is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there has been a custom of drinking and enjoying the moon since ancient times. The customs of ancient north and south are different, and the customs of different places are different. The written record of Mid-Autumn Festival activities appeared in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it did not become a habit.
Step 2 chase the moon
The so-called "chasing the moon" means that after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the excitement is still endless, so the next night, many people invite relatives and friends to continue to enjoy the moon, which is called "chasing the moon". According to the preface of A Qing Chen Zihou's Lingnan Miscellaneous Notes: "Good people in central Guangdong gather in Izayoi in August, waiting for wine and food to enjoy the moon, which is called chasing the moon."
Step 3 eat moon cakes
Moon cakes, also known as moon group, harvest cake, palace cake and reunion cake, are tributes to the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, use them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends.