Why do women and children worship God in Yue Bai during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan, while most adult men don't?

Mid-Autumn Festival in Chaoshan Yue Bai is mainly for women and children, and most adult men don't worship it, so there is a saying that "men don't worship Yue Bai and women don't worship the stove". The hipsters call Yue Bai a moon worshipper. The moon belongs to Yin, named Taiyin Niang, and the folk call it Yueniang. Yue Bai is in the open air, urban residents, on the balcony roof or in their own courtyard; Most rural people in Yue Bai focus on worshipping the Great Wall in their villages.

After dinner, the women put on new clothes, led the children to set up the incense table, placed the offerings and waited for the moon to rise. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, grapefruit, persimmon, carambola, pomegranate, sweet potato, pineapple, Lin Ling, taro and other fruits and vegetables appear together. People dedicate these seasonal products, such as moon cakes, cakes, fried piles and oil cakes, to Moon Niang. In rural areas, women often show some handicrafts on these sacrifices, such as building Tashan Mountain with glutinous rice and rice strips, sticking grapefruit with paper cuts, and making Yougan Peacock with branches and leaves. Nowadays, in Yue Bai, there are so many commodities on the market that people try to buy them conveniently, but they are not as skilled as before.

Travel to the moon

As an ancient traditional folk culture, when the moon (commonly known as "Moon Mother") rises to the sky, boys and girls dressed in festive costumes gather in front of the swing. According to the custom here, women can't swing, but watch. It is boys who can show their talents. They competed on the swing to see who could swing high and turn fast.

In the laughter of onlookers, the single-seat and two-seat swings threw rainbows at Moon Mother, and the "cross" swings flew around with garlands. It is a hero in the eyes of girls, who swings the highest and turns the fastest, thus gaining their love. By the time the Lantern Festival comes next year, some people have gone to the streets to see lanterns and become young couples who love each other.

Innocent boys and girls have been pestering their grandmothers to tell the story of Moon Mother since they were knocked unconscious to learn English. The moon has become the golden dream of children. So in the Mid-Autumn Festival, adults split bamboo into wood, tied it into a skeleton the size of a footbath, and pasted it into a full moon with wool paper. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, children light candles in their mother's belly, carry them on their shoulders, and dance and swim in the hazy deep alley. Seen from a distance, the moon seems to have fallen to the earth. The golden dream has become a reality that both boys and girls can grasp and touch. This is an interesting trip to "Mother Moon".

Food cake, book cake

The "fork" in Chaoshan dialect refers to lard. The sweet glutinous rice cake steamed with lard mixed with fine glutinous rice flour and white sugar is called fork sesame cake. Is there any stuffing? Moon cakes are another necessary item on the altar of Chaoshan people in Yue Bai. Moon cakes symbolize the reunion of Mid-Autumn Festival with their roundness. They are made of cooked glutinous rice flour, sugar and oil. There are also carp shapes and sailboat shapes that symbolize beauty. Moon cakes, big round and small round. A scarlet letter that symbolizes auspiciousness.

Book cakes are also called cloud cakes and stew cakes. The main raw materials for making cakes are cake powder and white sugar, among which the requirements for white sugar are higher. Be sure to choose small, loose, white and instant sugar. Cake powder is made by frying glutinous rice and grinding it. First-class books are as thin as paper and look like books. Bite them like jelly, the entrance is soft and moist, and the aroma permeates the nose and mouth. Families with children who go to school must enjoy the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival night and pray for students' progress.

Put down the gods

Divination is also a mysterious and interesting activity on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. It is said that when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, the gods will also go to enjoy the moon. Therefore, on this day, people can make gods appear through special ceremonies or spells. Therefore, people often carry out mental activities on this day, mainly related to hitting children and inviting baskets.

The play boy is a 12 teenager holding incense, pulling a rice plant from the paddy field and taking it back to the dry field. Everyone sang around: "Turn off, turn off the drama god, and the drama god will appear ... God will play the old man, and God will play the old man. Master and dad go to the ground floor, and master and dad show off. " If you sing this song repeatedly for twenty minutes, a teenager will jump out like a frog and dance to sing "Shut the mussel". After singing for a while, you have to spray water on this person's face to recover.

Inviting a basket girl is a woman's game. In a dark room, put a woman's dress around the bamboo basket, and then put a coconut shell in the basket. This is the basket girl. When going down, the two men sat face to face on the ground, holding bamboo baskets in their hands, and putting a low stool in front of them. Some people sang "The basket is fascinated by the valley, the basket is fascinated by the gods, and the winding mountains are over the mountains to draw vines." Lateng sticks a basket of rice, which is always good. " If there is a God, then kowtowing in this basket can answer some simple questions.