In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong, and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Mid-Autumn. The moon has been a symbol of gentleness, beauty and tranquility since ancient times, and when people look up at the bright moon like a jade plate, they will look forward to family reunion. In ancient China, there was a custom of "autumn twilight moon", that is, worshipping the moon god. In some places, there will be other activities, forming special customs such as burning incense, setting off sky lanterns, and walking the moon. But the most familiar custom during the Mid-Autumn Festival is to eat mooncakes. It is said that it began in the Yuan Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhao led the Han peasants to rebel against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, and agreed to revolt on August 15, by giving each other mooncakes and sandwiching notes in the mooncakes to convey information. So the custom of eating mooncakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival slowly spread among the people. When I was a child, I didn't know so much, only that during the Mid-Autumn Festival, I had to play sticks. Because the main utensils for beating the rice sticks are a large stone mortar, there is only one in the village, and the adults have to discuss who comes first and who comes after. On the day of beating the rice, the mother-in-law will carry the steamed glutinous rice and the dumplings together to the stone mortar, wrap the steamed glutinous rice into the stone mortar, and grandpa, father, and dad will start to pound hard in the stone mortar. They circled the stone mortar, drumming and turning in circles to exchange positions. Until the cooked glutinous rice drum is pounded into hot rice, no trace of the rice can be seen again. My sister and I looked at it and sniffed it, and we cried out to taste it. My mother-in-law grabbed a handful of the stone mortar with a washed hot towel, and a lump of rice dumplings came to our hands and mouths. When the rice stick was beaten, the stick was used to stir the rice in the stone mortar into a ball, and the stick was lifted together and placed in the basin to carry it home. The table at home has long been washed and dried and sprinkled
29 layers of rice noodles. Wait until the rice sticks can be used, pinch a ball, put it on the table to dip the rice flour, and then put it into the mold and press it and then pour it out, a complete rice stick will become, delicious and beautiful. At that time, a large family would do it together, and when they ate and walked away on the same day, they would mention some back. Now there is less of the previous custom, no longer playing rice dumplings, are bought in the supermarket mooncakes. But the change is that the family will still surround a table, lively, or so warm. After the adults are busy, serving vegetables and stir-frying, some children are helping to do housework, and some are playing and playing, which is more lively than the market. After resting, the whole family enjoyed the big and round moon while eating the reunion dinner, which was lively and lively.