What to eat in Wuhu Mid-Autumn Festival?
Eat green Zong Ling.
Wuhu is located in a water town. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, farmers picked a water chestnut shaped like zongzi from the pond and named it Zong Ling. Fresh Zong Ling is green and full of seeds. It is one of the four fresh gifts in Wuhu Mid-Autumn Festival. It is given to relatives and friends together with moon cakes, red dates and snow lotus, which means reunion, harmony and sympathy.
This custom has a long history and prevailed in the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Zhen's Poems: The new beauty of colorful jiaozi is the theme of this matter. It can be seen that Wuhu folk custom has maintained an ancient style for a long time. It was only in the Qing Dynasty that HongLing replaced Green Zong Ling, which has been passed down to this day.
How to spend Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuhu
To the moon.
In the past, Wuhu had a unique traditional custom called walking on the moon. In the evening, after the reunion dinner, a bright moon was in the sky and the young people went out to play all night.
People who are good at music, carrying jade Zheng, playing pipa and flute, swim in groups in the moonlight and enjoy themselves in streets and rural buildings.
Women also go out of the boudoir, freshen up, go out with heavy makeup, exchange incense, join hands with Yue Bai and dance in the moonlight, which is called walking on the moon.
Hang a longevity lamp
Seven days before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household in Wuhu tied colorful lanterns to wish longevity, named Wanshou Lantern. In addition to the red candle lanterns made of silk and mulberry oil paper, there are also iron lanterns with local characteristics in Wuhu.
Form a square or hexagon with exquisite iron paintings (mainly flowers, birds, insects, plum blossoms, bamboo and chrysanthemums). Wearing a vestment as white as snow, a silver candle was lit inside, which was provoked by a high pole and hung in the courtyard under the eaves, brightly lit and the moon was in the sky.
In the poems of Huang Yue in Qing Dynasty, it was recorded that seven days before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, people would put colorful lanterns to celebrate longevity, which was called "longevity lantern".
Why did Anhui set fire to the Mid-Autumn Festival?
In Fuyang area in northern Anhui, besides eating moon cakes, the most distinctive folk custom is Torch Festival.
Speaking of the origin of Torch Festival, we can't help but mention the Red Scarf Army Uprising led by Liu Futong, a farmer at the end of Yuan Dynasty more than 600 years ago, because Liu Futong was from Fuyang, Anhui Province, and the peasant uprising he launched here left a much-told story and festival folklore.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival party, children imitate the Red Scarf Army, tying straws and straws into handfuls three or four feet long, lighting them in the wild and shaking them from side to side, which seems to be a signal. The local custom is to throw torches. This custom has lasted for a long time.