In many people's minds, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion festival, but looking at the history of the Mid-Autumn Festival after the formation of the Tang Dynasty, we can find that there are actually many richer folk activities in the Mid-Autumn Festival. These folk activities make the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival a festive festival and a festival full of hope. In key scenic spots in our province
Mianshan in Jiexiu has formed some special Mid-Autumn Festival customs since the Tang Dynasty. After ten years of excavation and research by Mianshan Cultural Research Institute, these wonderful Mid-Autumn Festival cultural relics of Tang and Song Dynasties will reappear in the "Eleventh" Golden Week.
According to experts from Mianshan Cultural and Art Institute, during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Li Longji, the romantic emperor, strung 8 1 "Taiyin bronze bells" on the Mid-Autumn Festival, in order to imitate the practice of hanging bells on Mianshan in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, the ancestor of Li Shimin, which means "the ninth year is complete". Since then, every Mid-Autumn Festival, people have pinned their wishes on the "Taiyin bronze bell" and hung it in the Rhoda Palace. It is said that in the Qing Dynasty, Jiexiu giant Han Fan hung more than 20 bronze bells with colored lines in order to pin down the ideal of prosperous family business.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival in Mianshan in Song Dynasty, there was a custom of hanging lanterns to invite the moon. "Please invite the moon" lantern is the custom of Wen Yanbo's parents to hang lanterns in Song Dynasty. Later, on the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rich people at that time would hang a special lantern with the owner's family name under the eaves of a temple in Yunfeng Temple, meaning "looking for the moon". The next day, early in the morning, the eldest son at home was sent back, wrapped in red cloth. When the sky is dark and the moon is about to appear, it is hung on the cornice outside the main hall to let the moonlight shine, which means "please moonlight". At this time, the whole family will hold a banquet outside the hall to show their joy. On the third day, just before dawn, the master or eldest son personally took down the "Please Moon" lantern and hung it in the study, which means "keeping the moon". According to folklore experts, this custom means that ancient children stay at home and study hard, with a bright future.
Mianshan is the birthplace of cold food in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and cold food is the representative of the Qingming culture of cold food for more than 2,640 years. Cold food was so popular in Tomb-Sweeping Day in the Tang Dynasty that people in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the birthplace of cold food, later used some cold food making techniques to make moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon cakes circulated locally, such as rabbit moon cakes, wishful moon cakes, bergamot moon cakes, reunion moon cakes, etc., are all made from wild fruits and medicinal materials such as gooseberry and astragalus growing in the mountains with reference to the healthy concept of cold food.
It is reported that in order to welcome this year's "Eleventh" Golden Week, Mianshan began to make preparations in August, specially making 10000 "Taiyin bronze bells" and 500 lanterns named "Please the Moon" according to the style of Tang and Song Dynasties, and rehearsing the ceremony of hanging clocks and inviting lanterns for two months according to ancient regulations, so that tourists can experience Mianshan's Mid-Autumn Festival first hand. However, the person in charge of the scenic spot said: "We originally wanted to make more lanterns for tourists, but due to the limitation of semi-manual production at present, combined with the hundreds of thousands of passengers in Mianshan during the Eleventh Golden Week, the existing lanterns can only be supplied in limited quantities."