Folk customs and eating habits of Sichuan Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is the four grandest traditions in my country One of the festivals, we not only have a statutory holiday on this day, but also celebrate it with various folk activities.For example, the characteristic folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Sichuan Province are orange lanterns, cakes, ducks, hemp cakes, and sacrifices.Ghosts and gods, dancing meteor incense balls, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, watching meetings.
Introduction to Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Festival, Moon Night, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Moon Lady Festival, Moon Festival , Reunion Festival, etc., are traditional Chinese folk festivals.The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, and evolved from the Qiu Xi festival in ancient times.At first, the festival of "Sacrificial Moon Festival" was on the 24th solar term "Autumn Equinox" in the Ganzhi Calendar, and later it was adjusted to the 15th day of the eighth month of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar).The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and prevailed after the Song Dynasty.The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, and most of the festival and customs elements it contains have ancient origins.
Traditional customs and activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Worship Festival.Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating sweet-scented osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine, and offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods.The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to signify the reunion of people, as a sustenance to miss the hometown, miss the love of relatives, pray for a good harvest and happiness, and become a colorful and precious cultural heritage.The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China.Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.
Special folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Sichuan
In addition to eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Sichuan people also eat cakes, kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc.In some places, orange lanterns are also lit and hung at the door to celebrate.There are also children who put incense on the grapefruit and dance along the street, which is called "Dancing Meteor Incense Ball".During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jiading County, it is called "Kanhui" when it sacrifices to the gods of the earth, plays zaju, vocal music and cultural relics.In addition, some traditional Mid-Autumn Festival folk activities are also popular in Sichuan, such as viewing the moon, lantern festivals, guessing lantern riddles, drinking, gathering, worshiping ghosts and gods and so on.
Sichuan Mid-Autumn Festival food
Mid-Autumn Festival is a very grand festival in Sichuan.The specific holiday eating habits include eating moon cakes, eating glutinous rice cakes, eating honey cakes, eating Hemp pancakes, and kill ducks.Needless to say other things, but killing ducks is still very particular.First of all, the ducks should choose the new ducks that year, which are the young ducks.The young ducks have basically grown up by the Mid-Autumn Festival, and are fat and thin.After slaughtering, the duck feet and wing tips should be removed, and after being slaughtered, the duck feet and wing tips should be removed, and then boiled in boiling water until the skin of the duck surface is tight, then removed, dried and placed in the smoker.To smoke, smoke until brown, then take it out and put it in brine to marinate.When eating, cut it directly with a knife and put it on a plate.
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