It is the custom of admiring the full moon, eating moon cakes and tasting grapefruit.
It has been passed down for hundreds of years since the ancestors of Fujian and Guangdong immigrated to Taiwan. Recently, although the Mid-Autumn Festival has not yet arrived, I can already see a group of men, women, and children gathered around the stove from time to time in the evening, grilling meat slices, corn, mushrooms and other ingredients. It is understood that supermarkets in various places have launched barbecue counters in response to the festival, and business is booming.
Eating grapefruit is also a special Mid-Autumn Festival custom among people in Fujian and Taiwan. The Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the grapefruit production season. It seems to be the perfect combination to taste the grapefruit to relieve tiredness after eating barbecue. And grapefruit has the homophone of "Yuzi", which means auspiciousness. While celebrating the festival, it also brings a "luck".
In Taiwan, buying mooncakes can also be done for charity. Some charitable organizations on the island cooperate with enterprises to recruit people with disabilities to make mooncakes to increase their income. In supermarkets, people can participate in activities organized by charitable organizations to donate mooncake gift boxes to disabled students, conveying a great love that can warm more hearts during traditional festivals.
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The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival:
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient custom of worshiping celestial phenomena and respecting the moon. During the "autumn equinox" of the 24 solar terms, it is the ancient "Moon Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Moon Festival".
In traditional culture, the moon is the same as the sun. These two alternating celestial bodies became the objects of worship by the ancestors. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's worship of the moon and is the remnant and derivative of the Chinese nation's custom of worshiping the moon. Sacrifice to the moon is a very ancient custom in our country. It is actually an activity of worshiping the "Moon God" by the ancients in some places in my country in ancient times.
According to research, the "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was originally set on the "autumn equinox" day of the 24th solar term of the Ganzhi calendar. However, due to the subsequent change of the calendar to the lunar calendar (summer calendar), the "autumn equinox" day fell on the eighth day of the lunar calendar. The days in the month are different every year, and there may not always be a full moon. Later, the "Moon Festival" was adjusted from the "autumn equinox" of the 24 solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar to the 15th day of the eighth month of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar).
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