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　　The Mid-Autumn Festival (Mid-Autumn Festival), also known as "Yuexi", "Autumn Festival", "Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August meeting", "chasing the moon Festival", "playing the moon Festival", "worship the moon Festival", "Girls Day", "Reunion Festival", is popular in the countrys many ethnic traditional cultural festivals. It gets its name because it is just half of the third autumn. It is said that the moon is at its largest, roundest and brightest. Since ancient times, people have the custom of eating and enjoying the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, returning to the wifes home is the day will return to her husbands home, in order to complete and auspicious meaning. It originated in ancient times, popular in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty, popular after the Song Dynasty, and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and known as the four traditional Chinese festival Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of the sky, from the ancient times the autumn evening festival moon evolved. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and other folk customs.

　　According to the "Zhou Rites" records, the Zhou Dynasty has "autumn night to welcome cold", "Autumn equinox evening moon (worship)" activities; In the middle of August of the lunar calendar, on the occasion of the harvest of autumn grain, people hold a series of ceremonies and celebrations in order to thank the gods for their protection, called "Autumn Bao". The Mid-Autumn Festival season, the temperature has not cold, the sky is high and cool, the moon is long in the sky, it is the best time to watch the moon. Therefore, later, the components of moon worship were gradually replaced by moon appreciation, and the color of sacrifice gradually faded, but this festival activity continued and was given a new meaning. In the Northern Song Dynasty, August 15 was officially set as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival began with the New Years Day, becoming the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. After several changes in the thousands of years of inheritance, the spirit of "family reunion" has become the main cultural connotation of todays Mid-Autumn Festival.

　　On May 20, 2006, the Mid-Autumn Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by The State Council. On January 1, 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival was listed as a national holiday by The State Council.

　　Origin of name

　　Mid-Autumn Festival, is the festival of autumn, in the second month of autumn, to the tenth May circle as a sign, this day is in the middle of the autumn, so called "Mid-Autumn Festival". This night the moonlight is brighter than usual, and it is called "Yuexi". Because the Mid-Autumn Festival in autumn, August, also known as "autumn festival", "August Festival"; Because of the worship of the moon, also called "moon festival", "Moon festival"; Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion, married daughter home reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival", "Daughters Day"; In Mid-Autumn, all kinds of melons and fruits are ripe and listed, because they are called "fruit Festival". Dong people called "pumpkin festival", Mulam people called "afterlife festival" and so on. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, people gather to admire the moon, offer sacrifices and celebrate the harvest.

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as "correct month". The record of "Reunion Festival" first appeared in Ming Dynasty literature. "West Lake tour Chi Yu" said: "August 15 is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, folk to send moon cakes, take the meaning of reunion." "Emperor scenery" also said: "On the fifteenth day of August, the cake will be round, the melon will be wrong teeth, petals carved like lotus. ... It has a woman to return to the home, is the day will return to the husband, said the Reunion Festival also."

　　Initially, the festival of the "Moon Festival" was on the day of the "Autumn Equinox" of the 24 solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was transferred to the 15th of August of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar). According to the Chinese calendar, August is in the middle of autumn, the second month of autumn, called "Mid-Autumn", and August 15 is in the "Mid-Autumn", so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

　　Mid Autumn and mid Autumn

　　The word Mid-Autumn Festival, the earliest seen in "Zhou Li · Xia suit horse · Dasima" : "Mid-Autumn Festival, teach the soldiers." Now there are also some writing "Midautumn Festival", strictly speaking should be "Mid-Autumn Festival". Because the concept of time expressed by "midautumn" is a whole month in the middle of autumn. The collection of ancient and modern books records the entire lunar calendar in August with the "Midautumn section", and records the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 with the "Mid-Autumn Section". In this regard, Xu Ju of the Peoples Republic of China quoted Ouyang Zhan of the Tang Dynasty as "Playing with the Moon" to preface the cloud: "Autumn in time, after summer first winter; August in autumn, the beginning of the season Meng end. Fifteen in the night and in the moon. Ji in the way of heaven, then both cold and summer; Take the number of months, then the toad rabbit round, so said Mid-Autumn Festival. This day is also in the middle of the autumn, and called the moon night."

　　Historical evolution

　　Festival origin

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival, which originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and was finalized in the Tang Dynasty, is a combination of various customs such as the evening moon, autumn society, the moon and the legend of the moon palace.

　　"Zhou Li · Chunguan Zongbo · Dian Rui" Zheng Xuan notes: "The son of heaven often spring equinox morning, autumn equinox evening month." In the Record of the History of Xiao Wu Benji, Pei Houn quoted Ying Shao as saying: "Tianzi spring morning, autumn evening month, worship the east gate. Day by day, night by night."

　　Since there is not necessarily a moon on the evening of the autumn equinox, the moon is not necessarily round, which would spoil the scenery, so the folk gradually put the autumn equinox to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival in August is the harvest season, the ancients held a ceremony to worship the earth god, called "autumn newspaper" and "autumn society". "White Tiger Tong · Shiji" says: "Midautumn moon, choose Yuan day, order people society. "Aid God Deed" said: Mid-spring pray for grain, Mid-Autumn harvest, the newspaper sacrificed millet.

　　Festival development

　　The Mid-Autumn Festival was popularized in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchange and integration between the north and the south of China. According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there were activities on the Mid-Autumn Festival or the beginning of Autumn to respect the elderly, provide for the elderly, and give male rough cakes. In the Jin Dynasty, there are also written records of appreciating the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival, but they are less common. Mid-Autumn Festival was not popular in northern China before the Jin Dynasty.

　　Flourishing fashion

　　During the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival custom became popular in northern China. The Mid-Autumn Festival became an official national holiday during the Tang Dynasty. The Book of Tang · Taizong records "August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival". The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival flourished in Chang an in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets had poems about chanting the moon in their famous articles. And the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chang e to the moon, Wu Gang felling GUI, jade rabbit pound medicine, Yang Guifei into the moon God, Tang Ming Emperor tour moon palace and other mythic stories combined, so that it is full of romantic color, play the moon wind just flourishing. The Tang Dynasty was an important period when the traditional festival customs were mixed and formed, and its main part has been passed down to the present.

　　In the Northern Song Dynasty, August 15 of the lunar calendar was officially designated as "Mid-Autumn Festival". Literary works appear in "small cakes such as chewing moon, with crisp and Yi Yi" seasonal food. Such as Meng elder "Tokyo Menghualu" said: "in the autumn night, your home decorated terrace, the folk to occupy the restaurant play month"; And "String heavy boiling, near extended residents, the sound of Sheng taro at night, like clouds outside." Children in the room, even night marriage play; The night market is rhythmical, as well as knowing."

　　Evolution to the present

　　During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the worldly interest became stronger and stronger every day. The Ming and Qing dynasties of the moon activities, "its offering fruit cake will be round", each family to set up "moonlight position", in the direction of the moon "to the month and worship." Lu Qihongs "Beijing Yuhua Record" says: "In the autumn night, people each place the moon palace symbol, the symbol is free from such as people stand; Chen melon fruit in court, cake surface painting moon palace toad free; Men and women worship and burn incense, and then burn them." "Emperor scenery" also said: "On the fifteenth day of August, the cake will be round, the melon will be wrong teeth, petals carved like lotus. ... It has a woman to return to the home, is the day will return to the husband, said the Reunion Festival also."

　　So far, eating moon cakes has been a necessary custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival in north and south China. Mooncakes symbolize happy reunion. People regard them as festival food, offering sacrifices to the moon and presenting them to relatives and friends. In addition to mooncakes, a variety of seasonal fresh and dried fruits are also delicacies in the autumn night. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds and fog are less, the moon is bright and bright, and there are a series of festival activities such as enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating moon cakes, eating sweet potatoes, carrying lanterns, dancing grass dragons, trees and building pagodas.

　　Festival folklore

　　Moon worship

　　Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China, which is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "moon God". In ancient times, there was the custom of "autumn twilight evening moon". The evening moon, that is, worship the moon god. Since ancient times, in some parts of Guangdong, people have the custom of worships the moon god (worships the moon mother, worships the moon) on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Worship the moon, set a big incense table, put on the moon cake, watermelon, apple, red dates, plums, grapes and other offerings. Under the moon, the "moon God" tablet is placed in that direction of the moon, the red candle is burning high, and the whole family worships the moon in turn, praying for blessing. Offering the moon and appreciating the moon, holding the month of remembrance and expressing peoples good wishes. As one of the important sacrificial rites of the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon worship has continued since ancient times.

　　Mid-Autumn Festival activities

　　Enjoy the full moon

　　The custom of enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival was formally formed in the Tang Dynasty. According to the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Legacy", on the night of August 15, Tang Xuanzong prepared a wine banquet, and the ban in the straight night all the bachelor to play moon. Since then, every year on August 15, the customary full moon. In order to complete the moon with Yang Guifei, also ordered to build a hundred zhangs high platform on the west bank of Taiye pool, because of the outbreak of An and Shi rebellion, no repair. Since Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, a large number of moon poems appeared in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Such as the Tang poet Bai Juyis "August 15," the cloud: "Where is the northwest look township, southeast see a few round months." Wei Zhuangs "Send Li Xiucai back to Jingxi" cloud: "The autumn moon is full in August, send Jun Yin on the Mulan boat." Sikong picture "Mid-Autumn Festival" cloud: "This night if there is no moon, a year empty autumn." Northern Song Su Dongpos "Water tune Song" cloud: "When is the bright moon? Ask the sky for the wine." They are all good sentences for enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Not only scholars and scholars appreciate the moon, sing the moon, the common people also "thousands of homes to see dew wet, ten thousand miles sense day clear." The custom of appreciating the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in the Song Dynasty. "Tokyo Menghua Lu" volume eight "Mid-Autumn Festival" said: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the shops are selling new wine, re-knot the facade, color floor, flower head, painting pole, drunk fairy jin 旆. The crowd was fighting for drinks until the middle of the day... In the autumn night, your home is decorated with terraces, and people compete for restaurants to play on the month...... Children even play night, night market rhythmical, as well as know."

　　Enjoy the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival

　　Moon chase

　　The so-called "chasing the moon", that is, after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the excitement is not done, so on the evening of the next day, many people invited relatives and friends to continue to enjoy the moon, called "chasing the moon". According to the preface of Chen Zihous "Lingnan Miscellaneous Bills", "the Cantonese busybody, on the night of August 16, gathered friends and relatives to treat wine and food and appreciate the moon, called chasing the moon."

　　Guess a riddle

　　On the night of the full moon, many lanterns are hung in public places, and people gather together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns, because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time, love stories are also transmitted on these activities, so the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddles have also been derived from a form of male and female love.

　　Eat a mooncake

　　Moon cake, also called moon group, harvest cake, palace cake, reunion cake, etc., is the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon God tribute. Mooncakes were originally used to offer offerings to the god of the moon, and later people gradually came to enjoy the moon and taste mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion. Mooncakes symbolize happy reunion. People regard them as festival food, offering sacrifices to the moon and presenting them to relatives and friends. Today, eating moon cakes has become an indispensable custom in the north and south of China to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, people will eat moon cakes to show "reunion".

　　Local characteristics

　　Huguang burning lamp

　　On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lanterns to help the moonlight. Today, the Huguang area is still used to stack tiles on the tower on the lamp festival custom. The Gangnam area has the festival custom of making lamp boats. The custom of lighting lanterns in modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous. Today people Zhou Yunjin, He Xiangfei "leisure try to say the season things" article said: "Guangdong lantern is the most prosperous, each family in the festival ten days before, with bamboo lanterns. Do fruit, birds and animals, fish and worms and celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival and other words, pasted colored paper drawing various colors. The internal combustion candle of the middle autumn night lamp is tied to the bamboo pole with a rope, and is erected on the tile eaves or terraces, or is built into a zigzag shape or various shapes with small lamps, and hung on the height of the house, commonly known as the "tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". Rich and wealthy families hang the lamp, the height can be counted, the family gathered under the lamp to drink for fun, ordinary people put up a flagpole, two lanterns, also take their own fun. A city full of lights is like a glass world." The scale of the Lantern Festival seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival.

　　Tide watching in Zhejiang

　　In ancient times, Zhejiang area in addition to the Mid-Autumn moon, tide watching can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, as early as in the Han Dynasty in the "Seven hair" Fu has a quite detailed description. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching wind more prosperous. There are also records of tide watching in Ming Zhu Tinghuans "Adding Old Events of Wu Lin" and Song Wu Zimus "Dream Liang Lu".

　　Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangdong

　　In some places in Guangdong Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival has a kind of interesting traditional custom, called "tree Mid-Autumn Festival". The tree is also vertical, that is, the color of the lights is erected, so it is also called "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". With the help of parents, children use bamboo paper to tie rabbit lights, star fruit lights or square lights, hung in the short pole, and then erected on the high pole, held high, the color light shines, adding a scene for the Mid-Autumn Festival. The children often compete with each other to see who is the highest, the highest, and the most exquisite. At night, the city lights, such as stars, and the moon in the sky to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

　　Play the Loc boy

　　"Play Lu Tsai" is a very popular childrens game in the past Mid-Autumn Festival, with pomelo shell carved through flowers, hanging lights, children carrying groups of play, or carrying a variety of animals, melon shaped lights, singing along the street, while singing "play Lu song" : "Play Lu Tsai, play Lu er, point lights. Knowledge of sven heavy sven, the world reading for the first, do not say that the article is useless, Guyun a word is worth a thousand pieces of gold, its own book out of noble people..." The children dispersed after enjoying themselves and went home to eat mooncakes and fruits.

　　Hold a lantern

　　In ancient times in Guangdong, when the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, children with the help of their parents would make rabbit lanterns, star fruit lanterns or square lanterns with bamboo paper. In addition, many children will use the peel to make lanterns. In addition, there are papaya lights, banana lights, etc., the easiest is the "pomelo peel lamp", which almost every familys children can do. In addition to the lanterns used to "tree Mid-Autumn Festival", there are more couples holding lanterns to admire the moon.

　　Lanterns in Guangdong and Guangdong

　　Mid-Autumn Festival, there are many game activities, the first is to play lanterns. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three major lantern festivals in China. Of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival does not have a large Lantern Festival like the Lantern Festival, playing with lights is mainly carried out between families and children. As early as the Northern Song Dynasty "Wulin Old Events", recorded in the autumn night festival customs, there is a "little red" lamp into the river rafting play activities. Mid-Autumn Festival play lanterns, mostly concentrated in the south. Such as Foshan autumn fair, there are all kinds of colorful lights, amazing. In Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to all kinds of lanterns tied with paper and bamboo for children to play, there are also very simple pomelo lanterns, pumpkin lanterns, orange lanterns. Guangxi has a simple household autumn lamp, which is tied into six bamboo strips circles, pasted white gauze paper, ed candles, and hung on the altar for the moon, and can be used for children to play. Nowadays, in many areas of Guangdong and Guangxi, lantern fairs are arranged in the autumn night, large modern lanterns lit by electric lamps are made, and all kinds of new lanterns made of plastic are made for children to play, but there is a lack of the simple beauty of the old lanterns.

　　Jiangsu burning bucket incense

　　Jiangsu autumn night to burn a bucket incense. The incense bucket is surrounded by gauze and painted with the moon palace scenery. There are also incense sticks woven with thread incense, on which there are paper bound giant stars and colored flags. Shanghai people also have the custom of burning incense sticks.

　　Chaoshan worship ancestors

　　Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Chaoshan area of Guangdong province. On the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the halls set up a platform to offer sacrifices, place the ancestral Gods main plate, and offer various offerings. After the sacrifice, the offerings are cooked one by one, and the family eats a sumptuous dinner together.

　　Hong Kong Fire dragon dance

　　The fire dragon dance is the most traditional custom of Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival. From the evening of August 14 of the lunar calendar every year, the Tai Hang area of Causeway Bay holds a grand fire dragon dance for three consecutive nights. This fire dragon is more than 70 meters long, with pearl grass tied into 32 sections of the dragon body, filled with longevity incense. On the night of the grand event, the streets and alleys in this district, a winding fire dragon dances joyfully under the light and dragon drum music, which is very lively.

　　smell

　　Listening to incense is an ancient Mid-Autumn Festival custom spread in Taiwan. In ancient times, the girl who wanted to marry, first burned incense in front of the gods at home to worship, tell her heart, pray for the gods to indicate the direction of listening to incense, and then according to the direction of the road accidentally or overheard the first sentence, keep in mind, and then throw a jiao back home, judge to explain the luck of the divination things. For example, a lifetime event, and hear the words are eating cookies or flowers, full moon, it means good luck, happy events near.

　　Burning tower

　　Mid-Autumn lantern and lantern lantern are not the same. The pagoda lamp is lit in the autumn night, and it is mainly popular in the south. Pagoda lamp, that is, a lamp built into a pagoda shape by village children picking up rubble. In the Qing Dynasty, the villagers of Suzhou used tiles to form seven-level pagodas in the wilderness, with the king of the land in the middle and lights burning around them, called "tower lights". Guangzhou children burn "Fan tower lamp", made of broken tiles; There are pomelo peel lamps, with red pomelo peel carved various figures and flowers, placed in the middle of a glass, red light. In addition, the South is also widely spread burning tile lamp (or burn tower, burn tower, burn tower) game, in Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places have been spread. For example, "Chinese National Customs" volume five: Jiangxi "in the autumn night, the general children pick up tiles in the field, piled into a round tower, porous. Burn it in a wood tower under the moon at dusk. As soon as the tiles burned red, and then poured kerosene, oil on the fire, all the wild red, shining like day. Until late at night, when no one is watching, it begins to pour breath, which is a burning tile lamp." The burning tower in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, is also a hollow tower built with brick tiles, filled with branches and burned. At the same time, they also burn smoke piles, that is, piles of grass and firewood, which are burned after the worship of the moon. In the border area of Guangxi, the Zhaofan Pagoda is similar to this kind of activity. In Jinjiang, Fujian, there is also a "pagoda burning" activity.

　　Mid-Autumn feast custom

　　In ancient China, the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet is the most refined and elegant in the court. Such as the Ming Dynasty court is popular to eat crabs. After the crab is steamed with the bag, the people sit around to taste, with wine vinegar. Drink Su leaf soup after eating, and wash your hands with it. Around the banquet table area, full of flowers, pomegranates and other seasonal delicacies, performing the Mid-Autumn Festival mythology drama. The Qing Palace mostly put a screen to the east in a certain hospital, on both sides of the screen shelved cockscomb, edamame technology, taro, peanuts, radish, fresh lotus root. In front of the screen, there is an eight-fairy table with an oversized mooncake, surrounded by pastries and fruits. At the end of the festival, the moon cake is cut into several pieces according to the royal population, and each person symbolically tastes a bite, called "eating reunion cake". The moon cake in the Qing Palace is so large that it is hard to imagine. Like the last emperor Pu Yi awarded a moon cake to the chief minister of Internal affairs Shao Ying, is "about two feet in diameter, and weighs about 20 jin."

　　Play with the rabbit

　　Playing rabbit is a Mid-Autumn Festival custom popular in north China. The Mid-Autumn Festival custom of playing rabbit began around the end of the Ming Dynasty. "Old Beijing" Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to eating moon cakes, there is a custom is for rabbit. "Rabbit boy" rabbit head body, armor, put a guard flag, or sitting or standing, or pestle or riding beast, upright two big ears. Originally, "rabbit boy" was used to worship the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, "rabbit boy" gradually transformed into childrens Mid-Autumn Festival toys.

　　Ming Ji Kuns "Kao King Cabinet leftover draft" : "Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival to mud rabbit shape, dress like a person, children worship." By the Qing Dynasty, the function of the rabbit has been transformed from the festival of the moon into childrens Mid-Autumn Festival toys. The rabbit is made of mud, rabbit head body, armor, put guard flag, face with gold mud, body painted, or sitting or standing, or pestle or riding beast, with two big ears, very comical. "Yanjing year of the record" : "Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the city peoples clever, with the loess knead into the image of the rabbit to sell, called the rabbit." The imperial court of the Qing Dynasty called the Jade rabbit in the moon Taiyin Jun. But Beijing residents call him the Rabbit boy. In the folk customs around Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival of rabbit children is not serious enough but more games.

　　National characteristics

　　The Mongolian nationality

　　Mongolians love to play the game of "chasing the moon". People mounted horses, in the silver moonlight, galloping across the grassland. They rode westward, and the moon rose in the east and fell in the west. Persistent Mongolian riders, until the moon under the west, "chasing the moon" more than.

　　The Zang nationality

　　The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some areas of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "looking for the moon." It is the night of the day, young men and women and dolls, along the river, following the moon reflected in the water, the moon shadow in the surrounding river pond, and then go home to eat moon cakes.

　　Dong nationality in Guangxi

　　Dong people in Guangxi have the custom of "walking the moon". In the autumn night, the cottage Lusheng song and dance team, following the moonlight all the way to the near cottage, and the village people there meet to enjoy the moon, song and dance, long night.

　　Yunnan De ang nationality

　　Yunnan De ang nationality "cross-moon". The young men and women of the De ang nationality in Luxi, Yunnan Province, when the moon is bright and bright in the middle of autumn, the mountain is blocked by the tail, and from time to time there comes a melodies of the Lushu Sheng, and young men and women pour out their hearts together "on the moon". Some also send betel nut and tea through the "string moon" to make a marriage contract.

　　Yi nationality in Yunnan

　　The traditional custom of the Yi people in Yunnan to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is "jumping to the moon". At night, men, women and children of the various villages of the ethnic group gathered in the open areas of the village, a girdle of girls and head wrapped in cloth tape boys and old men, old women, little children are passionate singing and dancing, especially those young men and women express love of the song, as if the moon also heard it moving, more and more charming and bright.

　　Kelao

　　On the "Tiger Day" before the festival, Gelao people slaughter a bull together in Quanzhai and save the cows heart for the middle autumn night to worship the ancestor spirit and welcome the new Valley, which they call the "August Festival".

　　The Korean nationality

　　The Korean people use wooden poles and pine branches to build a "moon frame". When the moon rises, ask several elected elderly people to climb up to the moon frame. After the old man full moon, and then lit the full moon frame, beat long drums, blow the Dong xiao, together to dance "farmhouse music dance."

　　The Zhuang nationality in western Guangxi

　　In the middle of August of the summer calendar every year, some in the autumn night, people set up an offering table in the open air at the end of the village, for offering sacrifices and incense, and the tree on the right side of the table is a branch or bamboo branch about one foot high, which symbolizes the tree, and also acts as a ladder for the moon God to descend to the earth and heaven. The whole activity is divided into: invite the moon God to come down to earth, with one or two women as the spokesman of the moon God; The song of God and man; Moon god divination fortune telling; The singer sings the God curse song and sends the moon God back to heaven in four stages.

　　The Li nationality, living in Yunnan Province

　　The Li people call the Mid-Autumn Festival "August Meeting" or "Tuning Festival". At that time, each market town will hold a song and dance party, and each village will be led by a "tone head" (that is, the leader) to participate in the young men and women, and give each other moon cakes, incense cakes, sweet cakes, flower towels, colored fans and vests. In the evening, they gather around the fire, roast game, drink rice wine, and sing songs, and unmarried young people take the opportunity to find a future partner.