Shandong Mid-Autumn Festival customs are eating moon cakes and reunion eggs, sacrifices to the God of Tugu to eat "wheat arrows", Mid-Autumn Festival night to throw a handkerchief to recruit relatives, enshrine the rabbit king, do the "moon drums", paper-cutting and window decal, August 15 to see the daughter of the seven kinds of customs.
one, eat moon cakes and reunion egg
Egg round like the moon, throughout the ages is a symbol of reunion of auspicious food, egg round people reunion. Shandong Mid-Autumn Festival custom has always had to eat moon cakes and eat the custom of reunion eggs, round moon cakes and round eggs, is a symbol of auspicious reunion food, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival people express their blessings to each other ties.
The festival of reunion, send a reunion "egg", tasting the taste of reunion, feel the love of longing.
Second, sacrificing to the God of the Valley to eat "wheat arrows"
Shandong Qingyun County, Shandong farming families sacrificed to the God of the Valley on the 15th of August, called the "Qingmiao She". In addition to the moon festival, the localities of Zhucheng, Linyi and Jimo also have to go to their graves to pay tribute to their ancestors. Landowners in Guanxian, Laiyang, Guangrao, and Yucheng also feast their tenants on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Jimo Mid-Autumn Festival to eat a festival food called "wheat arrow". First white flour spread into pancakes, plus meat or vegetarian fillings, and then rolled into a tube with broomcorn millet steamed, eaten with seasonings, the flavor is very delicious.
Three, the Mid-Autumn Festival night to throw a handkerchief to recruit relatives
Some areas in Shandong Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival night to throw a handkerchief to recruit relatives custom. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a colorful platform in the square, arranged as a moon palace scene, and set up the jade rabbit, osmanthus and so on. Some unmarried girls dressed as Chang'e, after celebratory songs and dances, the girls will be some embroidered with different colors of handkerchiefs to the stage to throw.
If any 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. Some unmarried young men, when handing back the handkerchiefs, can give them a ring if they are liked by Chang'e. After that, both parties can make friends. Thereafter, the two sides can make friends, and those who are in love with each other will be happily married.
Four, enshrine the rabbit king
Old times, every Mid-Autumn Festival, Jinan people's table is always less than a bright "rabbit king". Most of the "rabbit king" height is generally in 20 centimeters, can move freely, with the hand pulling the rope, the rabbit king's shoulders up and down to make pounding medicine, naive and charming, love.
Five, do "moon drum"
Shandong has a kind of steamed moon cake, now Weifang, Yantai Longkou still have left, called "moon", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum", "moon drum". "Jade Rabbit", do "monkey", and decorated with many face coloring flowers and fruits, the middle of the two layers, but also clip red dates, this thing is used for the moon, gifts to friends and relatives, good-looking but also in the food.
Six, paper-cutting and window decals
Jiaodong folk around the early Mid-Autumn Festival paper-cutting and window decals custom, until the late 1970s, Penglai, Qixia, Muping, and other places in the rural areas of the elderly also continue these customs.
Seven, the 15th of August to see the girl
Tai'an area of the 15th of August to see the girl's custom. Every time before the Mid-Autumn Festival, families prepared gifts to see the marriage of the girl, including the old girl married for many years.
People take moon cakes and carp, go to see the daughter, and Taian folklore has a relationship.
Legend has it that the Taishan granny was the daughter of the Heavenly Master, the sister of the Jade Emperor. She was born beautiful, charitable heart, not love heaven, love earthly beings, came down to Tai'an, painstakingly take care of the people under the mountain, so that the wind and rain around the Taishan area, a good harvest.
People made up a song to praise her virtues: "Tai'an is a divine state, ten years and nine harvests." The song reached the Heavenly Master, who was so happy that he decided to come to see his daughter on August 15, the harvest time, and the full moon in the sky was his cake for her, and the carp with flowery fins was his gift to her.
From that time on, all the people under Taishan Mountain learn from God to visit their daughters on August 15, and also use moon cakes and carp as gifts.