●Shanxi
Lu'an County, Mid-Autumn Festival feast son-in-law; Yongning County, Mid-Autumn Festival eve worship Taiyin Star Lord; Datong County, said the reunion cake, as big as two, three feet, Mid-Autumn Festival night and the custom of vigil; Shilou County, Mid-Autumn Festival, the city god.
●Hebei
Wanquan County called the Mid-Autumn Festival "Small New Year's Day", the moonlight paper painted with Taiyin Xingjun and Guandi night reading the Spring and Autumn statue. Hetao County calls mid-autumn rain bitter rain, and if it rains on Mid-Autumn Festival, that year's greens must not taste good.
●Anhui
Mid-Autumn Festival, wuyuan children pile a hollow pagoda with bricks and tiles, hang tents, plaques and other decorations on the pagoda, and then put a table in front of the pagoda, and set up all kinds of utensils to honor the "pagoda god". At night, both inside and outside are lit with lamps and candles, and the light is lovely. Jixi Mid-Autumn Firecrackers are made of straw tied into a braid, soaked in water, and then picked up and struck against a rock to make a loud noise. In addition, there is the custom of swimming in the fire dragon. The dragons are made of straw and have incense sticks inserted into their bodies. The dragon is accompanied by a team of gongs and drums, and is sent to the river after traveling through the villages.
●Guizhou
The custom of "stealing a melon to send a child" is popular in many places in Guizhou Province. If a family does not have a child, the village boys will take advantage of the bright moonlight on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, go to the field, steal a large melon, carved out the child's likeness, and then put the child's clothes ready to put on the melon, loaded in a bamboo basket, and then beat a gong and drums to carry to the family. After entertaining the guests, the recipient puts the melon on the bed and sleeps with his wife for one night, then cooks the melon for dinner the next day, and if he gets pregnant in the future, the recipient will have to thank these young men properly.
●Shandong
Farmers in Qingyun County offer sacrifices to the god of the earth on August 15, called "Qingmiao She". In Zhucheng, Linyi and Jimo, in addition to the moon festival, they also go to the graves of their ancestors. In feudal society, landowners in Guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao and Yucheng feasted their tenants at the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Jimo area, a kind of food called "wheat arrow" is eaten on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
●Shanxi
In Xixiang County, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, men went on a boat trip to the cliffs, and women also arranged a feast. On that day, rich or poor, must eat watermelon, watermelon also cut into lotus shape. Mid-autumn drummers blowing along the door to discuss the reward money, routine with the Dragon Boat Festival, New Year's Eve. Luochuan County Mid-Autumn Festival parents with their children with gifts for Mr. worship, lunch more in the school gathering.
●Fujian
Fujian Province, some areas of the Mid-Autumn Festival night has the custom of throwing a marriage. On this night, a colorful platform is set up in the square, which is decorated like a moon palace, with a jade rabbit and a laurel tree. Some unmarried girls dress up as Chang'e, and after celebratory songs and dances, the girls throw some handkerchiefs embroidered with different colors to the stage. If an audience member receives a handkerchief of the same color as the one in the hands of Chang'e, he or she can go on stage to receive a prize. When some unmarried young men return their handkerchiefs, if they are liked by Chang'e, they can give them a ring. Thereafter, the two sides can make friends, and those who are in love with each other will be happily married. Fujianese people have the custom of eating ducks during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the season when ducks are at their fattest. Fujian people use betel nut taro, which is abundant in Fujian, to cook with the duck, called betel nut taro roast duck, which is very good in flavor.
●Hangzhou
The custom of "grabbing melons" is popular in the mountainous regions of Zhejiang Province. Young people and children hold melon snatching competitions during the day or at night to see who is the first to snatch a melon. The winner is rewarded for his or her happiness and good fortune.
Hangzhou's Brasenia schreberi and perch braising has become a mid-autumn feast dishes, not only because of the season's Brasenia schreberi, perch is delicious, but also because of the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Han borrowed homesickness "Brasenia schreberi, perch", abandoned the official return to his hometown story, Brasenia schreberi has become a symbol of homesickness. Brasenia schreberi is a mid-autumn family feast and August seasonal vegetable soup. Brasenia schreberi, also known as horseshoe grass, watercress, is an aquatic rooted leafy grass plant. Brasenia schreberi's roots, stems and leaves are not only green, fragrant, tender and delicious, but also nutritious. Brasenia schreberi can be picked in spring and fall, but more good in the fall Brasenia schreberi.
●Taiwan
Taiwanese farmers have the custom of worshipping the God of the Earth during the Mid-Autumn Festival to thank the God of the Earth for blessing them with a rich fall harvest. In addition to worshipping the God of the Earth, farmers also have to place "God of the Earth walking sticks" in their fields. The walking stick is made of bamboo with the gold of the God of the Earth clamped on it, and is inserted in the field. In southern Taiwan, there is also a custom of worshipping the King of Trees on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Taiwanese folklore has it that the later one sleeps on Mid-Autumn Night, the longer one will live. If a young girl sleeps on Mid-Autumn Festival night, she can make her mother live longer. In addition, if an unmarried girl steals vegetables or green onions from someone else's vegetable garden on Mid-Autumn Night, it means she will meet a man of her choice in the future. The saying, "Stealing green onions means marrying a good husband; stealing vegetables means marrying a good son-in-law" refers to this custom. Kaohsiung County has a strong culture of raising water ducks. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the ducks are the most tender, the Hakka people in the Meinong area tend to slaughter the ducks and add vegetables to the dishes at the Mid-Autumn Festival, making it a local Mid-Autumn specialty. In addition to mooncakes, the Yilan region also eats a kind of food called "vegetable cake" on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is made of flour and baked with brown sugar in the center. In Tainan, it is customary to eat spuds on Mid-Autumn Day.
●Nanjing
Nanjing people must eat the famous Jinling dish "osmanthus duck" on Mid-Autumn Day. "Osmanthus duck" in the osmanthus fragrance when the market, fat but not greasy, delicious flavor. After drinking, we must eat a small sweet taro, poured with osmanthus syrup, the beauty of the dish is not to be described. The name "osmanthus syrup" is taken from Qu Yuan's "Chu Rhetoric - Shao Shi Ming", "Aid the North closed and drink osmanthus syrup", also known as sugar osmanthus, picked around mid-autumn and pickled with sugar and sour plums. The women of Jiangnan are so skillful that they turn the aphorisms in the poem into delicacies on the table. In Nanjing, people call it "celebrating reunion" to enjoy the moon with the family, "full moon" to sit and drink together, and "walking moon" to go out to the market.
●Beijing
The "mud rabbit stalls" in old Beijing sold rabbits. In the first 10 years, the rabbit was still sold in Beijing during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but now it is rare and seems to be seen only at the Spring Festival temple fairs. The Mid-Autumn Festival is dedicated to this rabbit in the moon. The rabbit is made of clay, rabbit head and body, wearing armor, inserted back flag, face plastered with gold clay, body painted, or sitting or standing, or pounding pestle or riding the beast, put up two big ears, but also playful and harmonic. The traditional mooncakes in Old Beijing include red, white and syrup mooncakes. The mooncake is a mooncake crust production method, to put it plainly, "pulp" is boiling syrup, in addition to a certain percentage of oil in the crust to play a role in the fluffy. There are Hui people to buy, the oil replaced by butter. This mooncake is characterized by crispy skin, fragrant filling, the old Beijing people especially love to eat. In addition, in August, the autumn high crab is fat, mid-autumn is the time to taste crab, Beijing people especially pay attention to taste drunken crab.
●Sichuan
Besides eating mooncakes, Sichuanese people also play poi, kill ducks, eat hemp cakes and honey cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Some places also light orange lanterns. This is done by hollowing out oranges, lighting candles and hanging them at the door to celebrate. There are also children in the pomelo full of incense, dancing along the street, called "dance meteor incense ball". In western Sichuan, smoked duck is a must-have Mid-Autumn Festival, because this time of the year the duck has grown up, fat and thin suitable. The master selected the year of birth of the duck, slaughtered after fading feathers, gutted to take out the viscera, washed, go to the wing tip, duck feet, plus salt code flavor marinade overnight, into the boiling water in a slight scald until the skin is tight, fished out and wiped dry moisture, placed in the smoker, smoked with straw to tea color, out of the brine pot into the brine, eat when the knife plate, color and lustre of gold and red, tender meat, smoky and smoky smoked duck that is into the. When making smoked duck, brine modulation is extremely important. Brine to use the old brine, each time the brine to add the right spices, salt, sugar color, brine with a heavy object will be fully pressed into the duck brine, brine time is generally appropriate to about 20 minutes, the time is too long duck old, affecting the quality and taste.
●Jiangxi
In the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers of every village in Ji'an County will use straw to burn tiles, and when the tiles are red, then put vinegar in them, so that the vinegar aroma wafts throughout the village. Xincheng County over the Mid-Autumn Festival since the night of the 11th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar hanging grass lamps, drums and music to welcome after the city streets, until the 17th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.
●Hunan
Hengyang in Hunan Province, the "Mid-Autumn Festival evening, there to send melon" custom. Where the marriage of several years infertile woman, friends and relatives held to send melon, the first few days, in the vegetable garden in the theft of a winter melon, must make the owner of the garden does not know, painted in color face, clothes wrapped in its human form. Raise the oldest good fortune to hold it, sounding gold and firecrackers, sent to their homes. Elderly people put winter melon in the bed, covered with a quilt, the door read: "planting melon get melon, planting beans get beans." The recipient of the melon set up a feast to entertain, as if it were another matter. Women get melon, that is, dissected and eaten. In Hengyang, where the village married without children of the family, as long as the goodwill, the village will be given to them to "send children". In addition, other parts of Hunan also have the custom of sending a child with a melon, similar to Hengyang, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when the master is not in the house while enjoying the moon, good neighbors will secretly send a child for him. The person who delivers the son must be someone who already has children. They first choose the most evil family's melon round in the village, steal a big winter melon from the garden, draw the face of the doll on the melon, then use a section of five-inch-long small bamboo pipe to insert into the belly of the winter melon, and follow the bamboo pipe to fill it with water until it is full. Sending people will be hidden in the master of the winter melon in the quilt, and so the master back to bed with a hand pull was, winter melon dolls move, the water will flow down the bamboo tube, like a child wetting the bed. And lose melon family will get up early in the morning to scold, it is said, scolded the more fierce, the future birth of the doll the more robust. If the next year really gave birth to children, their children will have to worship the people who send children as "godfather", "godmother".