What are the do's and don'ts for Mid-Autumn Festival 2019? What to eat during Mid-Autumn Festival?

What are the do's and don'ts for Mid-Autumn Festival 2019? What to eat during Mid-Autumn Festival?
What are the do's and don'ts for Mid-Autumn Festival 2019? What to eat during Mid-Autumn Festival? Every festival has its own special food. What do we eat on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th every year? The eighth month of the lunar calendar is also known as Guiyue, Zhuangyue, Zhongqiu, Nangong, and Zhongshang. Let’s learn with Shuimoxiansheng.com what we need to pay attention to in this beautiful eighth month of the lunar calendar in 2019.

What are the do's and don'ts for Mid-Autumn Festival 2019?

Lunar calendar: August 15, 2019
Gregorian calendar: Friday, September 13, 2019, Virgo
【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】
Nacai, marry, recruit a son-in-law, build a house, pray for blessings, open the market, accept wealth, offer sacrifices, pray for an heir, release, bury, take up a post, plant crops, accept livestock, fast and offer sacrifices, go to school, tailor clothes, pray for wealth, wear a hairpin
[Today’s taboos in the almanac]
Moving, moving into a new house, installing incense, litigation, raising beams, erecting pillars, installing beds, building, breaking ground, traveling, going out to seek medical advice

What to eat during Mid-Autumn Festival?

1. Eating taro in Guangdong <br /> There is a custom of worshipping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, Guangdong, mainly among women and children. There is a saying that "men don't worship the full moon, and women don't worship the kitchen god." There is also a local custom of eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a saying in Chaoshan: "Where the river is facing the mouth, you can eat taro."
2. Eating wheat arrows in Shandong <br /> Wheat arrows are a kind of seasonal food eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jimo. It is first made by spreading white flour into pancakes, then adding meat or vegetarian fillings, and then rolling them into tubes with sorghum stalks and steaming them. It is then eaten with seasonings and tastes very delicious.
3. Eating sesame cakes in Sichuan <br /> Besides eating moon cakes, Sichuan people also make rice cakes, kill ducks, eat sesame cakes, honey cakes, etc. during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In some places, orange lanterns are lit and hung at the door to show celebration. There are also children who stick incense sticks on grapefruits and dance along the streets, which is called "dancing with shooting star incense balls".

Different nationalities have different customs:

Mongolian <br /> The Mongolians love to play the game of "chasing the moon". People mounted their horses and galloped across the grassland under the silvery moonlight. They galloped westward, and the moon rose from the east and set in the west. The persistent Mongolian riders will not stop chasing the moon until it sets.
Tibetans <br /> The custom of Tibetan compatriots in some areas of Tibet to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival is to "search for the moon". That night, young men and women and children walked along the river, following the bright moon reflected in the water, and spread the moon shadows in the surrounding rivers and ponds, and then went home to reunite and eat moon cakes.
Dong Nationality <br /> The Dong Nationality in Guangxi has the custom of "walking the moon". On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the reed pipe singing and dancing groups from various mountain villages walk under the moonlight to the nearby mountain villages, where they gather with the villagers to admire the moon, sing and dance, and have fun all night long.
De'ang people <br /> "Chuan Yue" of the De'ang people in Yunnan. During the Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is high in the sky and exceptionally bright, young De'ang men and women in Luxi, Yunnan, can hear the melodious sound of Hulusheng from the hilltops from time to time, and the young men and women "string the moon" together to express their love. Some even make engagements by sending betel nuts and tea during the "moon stringing" ceremony.
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