Mid Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in our country, and it is a festival that everyone attaches great importance to, because it is a day for family reunion. But many people are very curious. Do foreigners celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival? How do foreigners celebrate it?
Do foreigners celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival
Foreigners also celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival, but their names and customs are different from those in China. Let's take a look at how foreigners celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival~
How do foreigners celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival
Full moon festival in Japan
Japanese people call the Mid Autumn Festival 'full moon festival', or '15 nights' or' mid autumn moon '. Japanese people have the custom of appreciating the moon on this day, which is called' see you on the moon 'in Japanese. The Japanese don't eat moon cakes on the full moon festival, but eat a kind of dim sum called "moon seeing Tuanzi". The full moon festival is not only the 15th of August, but also the 13th of September. On this day of the festival, thousands of residents are dressed in ethnic costumes, singing and shouting, supporting the old and the young, carrying shrines to the temple to offer incense. In the evening, the whole family gathered in the yard, put fruits and rice balls on them to worship the God of the moon, and then shared food and enjoyed the moon, listening to the myths about the moon told by the old man.
Autumn Festival in North Korea
North Korea calls the Mid Autumn Festival "Autumn Festival". On this day, every family will eat muffins and give each other gifts. The shape of the muffin is like a half moon. It is made of rice flour and filled with bean paste and jujube mud. It's named because it's steamed with pine wool. In the evening, while appreciating the moon, we have tug of war, wrestling or singing and dancing. The young girls put on colorful festival costumes and gathered under the trees to play the game of "Brent River" (swing), step on the springboard, hit the top and other folk activities on autumn Eve.
Sri Lanka 'full moon festival'
Sri Lanka's' full moon festival 'is spread according to the' Buddhist calendar '. When the moon' reunions' every month, it will have a festival. Of course, the 'Mid Autumn Festival' is the most solemn. On the full moon day, Sri Lanka has a national holiday. After the good men and women arranged the delicious food early, they all rushed to the temple or shrine to listen to the sermon and worship the moon. After listening to the worship, people sat around the courtyard, eating delicious food and watching the moon. It was not until the moon sank in the West that the fire was lit, the lights were lit, the music and dance were entertained, and all the fun was scattered.
Thailand 'praying for the Moon Festival'
Thailand calls the Mid Autumn Festival "moon praying Festival". On the 15th day of August, every family will use sugarcane to make moon arch, and the whole family will visit. People sit at the front of the big table praying and blessing each other. On the generous table, the South China Sea Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is enshrined, with a kind face, spreading 'great mercy' to the prayers; on the table, the 'eight hole Immortals' of Chinese folklore are also enshrined. All of them are lifelike, teaching the prayer "Eight Immortals cross the sea", showing their own magic power. The table is also full of 'longevity peach', 'moon cake', fruits and other delicacies. According to Thai legend, when the Mid Autumn Festival prays for the moon, the eight immortals will bring longevity peaches to the Moon Palace to celebrate Guanyin's birthday, and the Bodhisattva immortals will 'bring down blessings to the living beings and live a half life. 'in Bangkok's Chinatown, red streamers should be laid during the Mid Autumn Festival, which is very Chinese.
Laos' Moon Festival '
Laos called the Mid Autumn Festival "Moon Festival". When the Mid Autumn Festival comes, men, women, old and young will get together to enjoy the moon. At the same time, when night fell, young men and women danced all night, which was very interesting.
Vietnam Mid Autumn Festival
Vietnamese people also celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Different from China, Vietnam's Mid Autumn Festival is characterized by children and carp. On the market, there are all kinds of moon cakes, colorful lanterns, colorful children's toys and so on. The children's faces are full of longing for the festival. That night, the children listened to the legend of Agui. It's said that after getting the fairy tree, Agui didn't follow the immortal's instruction and poured the tree with sewage. As a result, the fairy tree soared to the Moon Palace. Agui was also taken to be responsible for pulling the root of the tree by hand. In the evening, the lights were put together. It's said that a carp killed people after it was refined. Bao Gong made a carp lamp to save the civilian people. So, Vietnamese children are carrying all kinds of lanterns and playing in groups!
How do foreigners eat on Mid Autumn Festival
"It's not just China that celebrates the Mid Autumn Festival," Gao Wei, a folklorist, told the Beijing News. "The Mid Autumn Festival is actually a common pulse in the Asian cultural circle to celebrate harvest and reunion. And the common pulse combines different folk soil of different countries, which gives birth to different characteristics. '
For example, Vietnam is close to the tropics, and a large number of fruits are mature in the Mid Autumn Festival, so most of the Mid Autumn Festival fruit moon cakes in Vietnam; while durian moon cakes in Thailand are rare in China.
South Korea's Mid Autumn Festival, people do not eat moon cakes, more rice dessert. Korean Mid Autumn Festival 'muffins' are made of rice flour, with bean paste, date mud and other fillings, like half a month. The dessert is named for its turpentine when it is steamed. In the Mid Autumn Festival, families steam and feed each other.