August 15th of the lunar calendar is an important traditional festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of reunion. Those who do not return to their hometown will definitely miss their relatives on this day. The Mid-Autumn Festival has different customs in various parts of China. In Taiwan, there are also many customs with rich folk features. Now let us take a look at the mid-autumn customs in Taiwanese culture.
Eat moon cakes
Kaohsiung County has a great reputation for rearing ducks. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it was the beginning and the longest time for the ducks. The Hakkas in the Mino region often slaughtered ducks and ducks on the Mid-Autumn Festival to become the characteristics of the local Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to eating moon cakes, the Yi Lan Mid-Autumn Festival also eats a kind of food called “caijingâ€. The cake is made from flour and baked with black sugar. In Tainan, there is the custom of eating mochi on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
In recent years, Taiwan’s Mid-Autumn Festival has also developed a new type of activity – barbecue. In addition, a food company in Taiwan launched a new concept of mid-autumn snow moon cakes based on the different needs of the consumption level and the characteristics of the unrelenting heat during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What is snow moon cake? Snow moon cake is ice cream moon cake, cool and cool, taste smooth, filling in three flavors - champagne sweetheart, Hawaii party, Vienna coffee. This section of moon cake also fully uses Japanese-style delicate packaging, Baolilong packing box with insulation effect, to ensure that snow moon cake does not melt in a certain period of time.
Eat barbecue
According to a report by Taiwan’s “China Broadcasting Newsâ€, although the Taiwan authorities have fully promoted energy conservation and carbon reduction, the barbecue activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival are still popular. Many districts even closed street barbecues, and communicated through the Mid-Autumn barbecue and neighbors. And family members can also use barbecues to prepare food, fire, and barbecue, thereby promoting emotional communication between parents and children. It's no wonder that there are elementary school students who link the Mid-Autumn Festival with barbecues, but the protagonists mooncakes and pomelos (ie grapefruit, editor's note) are not so popular.
In addition, it must be mentioned that there are still some mid-autumn folk customs related to women in Taiwan, such as: Mid-Autumn Nights pray for longevity: Taiwan’s folks say that the longer you sleep on Mid-Autumn Nights, the longer you live longer, especially when young girls sleep on Mid-Autumn Festival, and make your own. Mother lives long. Praying to marry Ruyi Langjun: According to legend, if the unmarried girl sneaked vegetables and green onions in the garden during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she said she would marry a wishful lang.
Pray for Children: Women who have not yet had children after marriage will be able to have a fat doll in the coming year if they can pick up a melon and take them home in the vegetable garden. In addition, in the middle of the Mid-Autumn Festival, women in Taiwan tend to burn incense in front of the statues in their homes. After expressing their desire for divorce, they also ask for directions, and then hold the incense on the way. When they hear conversations and sing along the way, they throw them. The cup asks God until he gets the approved answer from the god.
To worship Taiyue Xing Jun, Tai Yin Empress
Taiyin Xingjun and Taiyin Goddess are the gods of the Chinese moon. Their status is similar to that of Diana, a Western myth. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival pays homage to the Moon, it is natural that we must worship the Moon God. Take the Sun Palace in Miaoli as an example. Each year, the Mid-Autumn Festival’s activities for the birthday of Tai Yin Niang include playing the table and offering worship, chanting birthdays, holding a moonlight evening, eulogizing the basin, etc.
Praying for Marriage: The legendary unmarried girl said that if she steals vegetables or spring onions from a family garden during the Mid-Autumn Festival, it means that she will encounter a wishful husband in the future. There is a saying that “stealing green onions and marrying them; stealing dishes and marrying them†refers to this custom.
Pray for Children: Women who have not yet had children after marriage, in the middle of the Mid-Autumn Festival, to pick up a melon in the vegetable garden to take home, it is said that next year you can have a fat doll.
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