Burning tile lanterns is a traditional custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in yingtan. Every year, on the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, high earthen lamps are erected in urban and rural open spaces. The earthen lamp is based on big stones, and it is piled up layer by layer with broken stones picked up by children from the ground.
The earthen lamp was lit by the venerable old man in the village. Everyone in the village will add a handful of firewood to the earthen lamp, which is called "adding firewood (wealth)" Then pour oil and salt on the raging fire, and stop which fire head goes straight into the sky, up to several feet, which is called "prosperous wealth".
Traditional Mid-Autumn Festival activities
Lake light burning lamp
Nowadays, there is still the custom of piling tiles on towers and burning lamps in Huguang area. There is a custom of making lanterns in Jiangnan area, and the custom of burning lanterns in modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous.
Today, Zhou Yunjin and He He said in their article "Talking about the Four Seasons": "The lanterns in Guangdong are the most prosperous, and every household uses bamboo sticks to tie lanterns ten days before the festival. Make fruits, birds and animals, fish and insects, and "celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival" and so on, and paint various colors on the paste paper. The internal combustion candles of Mid-Autumn Night Lights are tied to bamboo poles with ropes and hung high on tile eaves or terraces, or made into fonts or various shapes with small lights and hung high on houses, commonly known as' Mid-Autumn Festival on trees' or' Mid-Autumn Festival vertically'.
Chaoshan ancestor worship
Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Chaoshan area of Guangdong Province. On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, tables were set up in each hall to offer sacrifices, ancestors and various offerings. After the sacrifice, the sacrifices are cooked one by one, and the whole family has a sumptuous dinner together.