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Thousands of miles in the bright moon, golden autumn mountains and rivers. Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which coincides with the autumn harvest, and the rice in the fields is gradually yellowing and the melons and fruits are fragrant.
"I hope that people will be long-lasting, and thousands of miles will be cherished together." The bright moon is the main guest, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival that shares the bright moon, which pins on the Chinese nation's yearning for reunion and beauty.
Reunion is the core theme of Mid-Autumn Festival culture. Thousands of miles away, thousands of miles away, a round of bright moon, pinning the homesickness and patriotism of the sons and daughters of China.
The mainland is a vast area, and the Mid-Autumn Festival customs that carry the Mid-Autumn Festival culture are also diverse, and the traditional cuisine of the Mid-Autumn Festival is also different from the north to the south, and there are many kinds of flowers. Let's go and see how everywhere celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival.↓
Fujian Luoyuan
Shefeng Mountain Rhymes to Welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival Long Table Feast Reunion
Nanyang Village in Luoyuan County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, is a She's village. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers of the She ethnic group sing songs, set up a long table feast, and celebrate the reunion with traditional folk customs.
The actors dressed in "phoenix costumes" for the festival
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the General Station: This is Nanyang Village in Baita Township, Luoyuan County, and today it is very lively here, and the villagers have danced the traditional dance of the Shes -- playing guns. The girls held a wooden knife in one hand and a bamboo pole in the other, jumping and knocking to the rhythm of the drums. This bamboo pole, also known locally as the gun, is a labor tool used to pick up firewood. In the past, when villagers went up the mountain to cut firewood, they would carry this bamboo pole with them, and once they encountered a beast or other danger, they would use this bamboo pole to hit the ground and sound or alarm. Evolving to today, it is the "gun bearer" dance that we see, which is also an indispensable folk activity of the local Mid-Autumn Festival.
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the main station: The girls of the She ethnic group are dressed up in costumes, and they wear the traditional costumes of the Shes, called phoenix costumes. Why is it called a phoenix suit? The girls comb their heads with a phoenix bun, symbolizing the phoenix, and the sound emitted by the silver ornaments worn on the body is like a phoenix, and the skirt that swings with the action is the phoenix tail.
Special mooncake hemp cake sustenance homesickness
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the General Station: Of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival is indispensable to eat mooncakes, and the compatriots of the She ethnic group have made special mooncakes, and the most conspicuous one is the 90 cm diameter in the middle, which is a hundred pounds of "Big Mac" mooncakes, which are made of 200 egg yolks.
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the General Station: Speaking of the most distinctive moon cake of the She, it is a hemp cake, the filling is made of marinated fatty pork, peanuts, sesame seeds, and chives, which is crispy and crispy to eat, very oily inside, salty and sweet, and rich in taste. The small hemp cake is a mouthful of nostalgia for the locals, and in some important festivals such as the full moon of children, the marriage of adults, and the birthday of the elderly, they must eat hemp cakes.
Make tofu steamed Umi Long table feast on the conversation reunion
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the General Station: The most lively part of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the shexiang long table banquet, which is the tradition of the She's people to entertain guests. Fellow villagers often say that "there is no yellow tofu for guests, and shanha is not sincere", and yellow tofu is an indispensable dish for entertaining guests.
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the main station: The villagers make yellow tofu on the spot, this process is called filter pulp, and after the filter pulp, the process of boiling pulp and pointing pulp will be carried out.
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the main station: This special dish of shejia, black rice, is steamed with glutinous rice soaked in black barley leaf juice, and the rice grains are black and translucent, and there is a sweet taste when eaten.
Zhu Jinghan, a reporter from the main station: The finale dish of the long table banquet is called "ten golden dishes", which is made of more than 10 kinds of local special ingredients, which means perfection and reunion.
Kunshan, Jiangsu
Jiangnan Water Town Lantern Viewing Festival Glittering Mid-Autumn Festival
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, many places have the custom of holding lantern festivals, and citizens travel with their families to enjoy the lanterns and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival together. The lights shine with the moon, and it is beautiful to think about the scene. Next, we will go to Zhouzhuang Town, Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, Jiangnan Water Town, on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, nearly 100 groups of lights appeared, they have different shapes, dazzling, attracting many tourists.
At night, in the ancient town of Zhouzhuang in Kunshan City, traditional lanterns and cultural and creative lanterns have been hung in the alleys of the powder-walled Dewa. At the entrance of the scenic spot, the 200-meter-long "Gusu Prosperous" theme lanterns are full of light, and tourists can taste the Jiangnan gardens and water town culture between light and shadow. The 5-meter-high "Kunshan You Have Drama" light group shows visitors the local traditional entertainment program. This year, Zhouzhuang Ancient Town has added a new water lantern viewing experience of "sitting on the lamp boat and enjoying the flower lantern", and the combination of different light groups and water swimming allows tourists to feel the Su-style life of "paddle sound and light shadow" during the tour.
Guangdong tourist Zeng Xianlin: If it rains a little, it may have the feeling of smoke and rain in Jiangnan, which will look better. Hope Guotai Min'an.
This year's Kunshan Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival lasts from September 7 to October 7, with a total of four themed lighting areas. During the lantern festival, there are also night markets, markets and cultural and creative blocks, providing more leisure and entertainment space for tourists.
Jiangxi Yichun
The fire dragon dances to celebrate the full moon and the moon cake celebrates the reunion
"The brightest night of the year, when thousands of people appreciate it." In Yichun, Jiangxi, the local people gather special folk activities every Mid-Autumn Festival and hold a "Moon Culture Festival", dancing fire dragons, eating moon cakes, and enjoying the bright moon.
Yan Junqi: My current location is the scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival folk customs activities in Wentang Town, Yichun, Jiangxi, and every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the "old watches" of Yichun will come up with their own tricks and come together to pray for a full moon, family reunion, and peace and smooth progress with their own characteristic folk customs and special cuisine. Today, while doing a good job in normalizing epidemic prevention and control, the local government has let everyone live a Mid-Autumn Festival.
Fire Dragon Chases the Bright Moon Dragon Soaring to welcome the festival
Yan Junqi: These dragons behind me are actually a local performance called "Fire Dragon Chasing the Moon", which is also one of the most classic activities of the local Mid-Autumn Festival in Yichun. There are a total of seven dragons on the scene today, namely two bench dragons and five nine-knot dragons, a total of more than 200 meters long, just now I also tried to dance with them to dance this dragon, in fact, it does not feel so easy, each of them has to shoulder an average of three to five pounds of weight, the dragon head is up to 24 pounds, so it is not as easy as they look.
Yan Junqi: Every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the local "old watches" in Yichun will "make dragons", and the main ones made in Yichun are bench dragons and nine dragons. The local villagers told me that in the past, every household took out their own bench and connected it one by one, forming a bench dragon. In the past, the more benches who came out of the house, it also meant that the family was more prosperous. At the same time, in order to make the bench dragon more convenient for dancing, the locals will change the original bench to a bamboo pole stool, and will tie some traditional flower lanterns to this bamboo stool, and paste some paper-cut and other fancy patterns on it to pray for smooth wind and rain and abundant grain.
Yan Junqi: What the locals call the nine-section dragon is actually these small dragons behind them, why are they called nine-knotted dragons? It is divided into nine segments, the dragon head section, the dragon body seven sections, the dragon tail section, nine people each hold a section, also called the dragon's foot, there will be a dragon ball in front, dancing with this dragon ball.
Yan Junqi, reporter of the main station: The fire dragon dance is a relatively traditional Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Yichun, which has been passed down for hundreds of years and is an activity that everyone can participate in. Every year, after this fire dragon dance is launched in the square, the fire dragon will also cross the streets and alleys to send blessings to every household.
Moon full moon cake sweet moon dumplings for the festival
Yan Junqi, reporter of the main station: In Yichun, the Mid-Autumn Festival not only dances fire dragons. Eating mooncakes and enjoying the bright moon are of course also indispensable items. The mooncakes here in Yichun are unique. The chef is making the Mid-Autumn Festival must-haves of yichun locals – moon cakes and moon dumplings. This round is a moon cake, a semi-circular moon dumpling, the filling of the bread is mainly made of sesame seeds, sugar and lard, the taste is sweet and sticky, but it is not greasy at all. The master told me that in fact, moon cakes and moon dumplings belong to the category of "warm soup cake". "Warm soup hair cake" in Yichun has more than 600 years of production history, they will also make different shapes according to different festivals, so in the Mid-Autumn Festival, they made moon cakes, moon dumplings and other hair cakes. At the same time, they will also light red, red, green and green "dot flowers" on the cake, indicating auspiciousness and praying for family joy and making life sweet like sugar.
Huazhou, Guangdong
Inherit the millennium toroku cake Moon full cake fragrant reunion
Nostalgia to the bright moon, reunion product toro. In Maominghua Prefecture, Guangdong Province, there is a kind of mooncake called Toro Cake, which is famous for its thin skin and filling, crisp and mellow taste. There are many styles of mooncakes now, but I believe that everyone's memory of the taste of mooncakes will have a kind of hometown. It is said that eating toroku during the Mid-Autumn Festival is a tradition in Huazhou for many years, and toros cake is the hometown memory of many locals for the taste of mid-autumn.
There are many handmade processes of tow cakes, paying attention to the division of labor and cooperation. First of all, the coconut is knocked out of the shell, planed into a flocculent coconut shredded, and stir-fried with oil and sugar in the pan, the coconut flavor is more intense and sweet, which is the key to the unique flavor of the tolo cake.
Chef Chen, who has more than 30 years of experience in making toroillas, introduced that in addition to shredded coconut, peanuts and sesame seeds are also found in traditional fillings. However, with the improvement of people's living conditions, nuts gradually replace peanuts, and at the same time, they can also add char siu, cloud legs, etc. to enrich the taste.
The filling is then stirred together, then rolled into a ball, wrapped in the crust, and baked in a special earthen oven. The closed chamber is conducive to maintaining high temperatures inside, so that the baked toros have a faint wood-burning fragrance, but it is also a test of the master's ability to control the heat.
Chen Yanguang, inheritor of the craftsmanship of making toros cakes in Huazhou, an intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province: Making such a large toros cake and baking it in it is about 20 minutes, if it is baked over the fire, the skin of the toros cake is burned, and it tastes a little bitter. However, if the toros are not baked enough, the torsho is not fragrant and tastes bad.
Each toros carries people's expectations of reunion and love for life. Spend a good full moon night, the family sits around, a cup of hot tea, a mouthful of sweet toros, this is the leisurely nostalgia of the villagers in Huazhou.