What are the customs of Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the harvest season for crops. Many countries celebrate this festival with different customs. Aupwit Industrial has compiled some Mid-Autumn Festival customs and activities for you:
Japan "Moon Viewing Festival":
Special food: Eat glutinous rice dumplings. This dumpling is made of glutinous rice and has different shapes. The filling is mainly red bean paste, which means "reunion" and "gratitude".
Celebrations: People will watch the moon on this day, which is called "moon viewing". Moon-viewing dumplings, silver grass, taro, etc. will be displayed in the house. In the past, children would go to the wild to collect wild grasses that symbolize good luck and good luck to decorate the door of the house to welcome happiness. Today, only a few places retain these traditional customs.
South Korea "Chuseok Festival":
Family reunion and sacrifice: Chuseok is one of the most important traditional festivals in South Korea. It is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month and is a national holiday. People will return to their hometowns from all directions, and the family will gather together to hold ancestor worship activities to express respect for their ancestors.
Traditional food: The family sits together to eat sponge cakes. Songpyeon is a unique Korean Mid-Autumn Festival food. It is named because it is padded with pine needles when steamed. It is made of rice flour as the skin and peanuts, red beans, chestnuts, dates, etc. as the fillings. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family steams and gives it to each other.
Traditional activities: Girls will wear colorful traditional costumes to play trampoline games, and some people will participate in entertainment activities such as mask dance, archery, and taekwondo.
Aupu wishes everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and all the best!
