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What is the meaning of "sending melons" on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month?

In the traditional festivals of Gelao people, August 15 of the lunar calendar is also celebrated. They will enjoy the moon as a family to show their reunion like the Han people. But on this day, women who have been married for a long time and are infertile will receive a special gift. What kind of gift will they receive? What is the particularity of Gelao's long married infertile women receiving this gift? I'll talk to you after reading sihai.com: the mysterious gift of Gelao married women who haven't been pregnant for a long time on the Mid Autumn Festival.

A mysterious gift for Gelao married women who have not been pregnant for a long time on the Mid Autumn Festival

On the night of August 15 of the Mid Autumn Festival, the whole family gathered to enjoy the moon to show reunion. There are customs of 'burning incense and worshipping the moon', watching 'the door of heaven opens' and' sending melons' Send melons', for infertile women who have been married for a long time, neighbors' steal 'strip-shaped tender pumpkins and send them to their beds to be covered. The boy under the bed learns to cry and wishes to have a baby early. Most of them were sent by adult women in company and were amused at will. Now the custom of 'sending melons' still exists in rural areas.

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