What does it mean to eat persimmons during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when persimmons are ripe and on the market. Eating persimmons on the Mid-Autumn Festival means "everything goes well." Used to mean "everything goes well".

In Chaoshan, Guangdong, there is a custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, mainly for women and children. There is a common saying that "men do not worship the full moon, women do not worship the stove". There is also a local custom of eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival. There is a proverb in Chaoshan: "When the river and stream meet the mouth, the taro will be eaten." August is the taro harvest season, and farmers are accustomed to using taro to worship their ancestors. Burning pagodas on Mid-Autumn Festival is also popular in some places.

Folks in the Jiangnan area also have various customs during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nanjing people love to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat Jinling’s famous dish, osmanthus duck. "Osmanthus duck" is on the market when osmanthus is fragrant. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. Jiangnan women are skillful in turning the things chanted in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people call it "celebrating reunion" when they enjoy the moon with their families, "full moon" when they sit together and drink together, and "walking on the moon" when they go out to the market.

In Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, incense sticks are burned on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. The incense cup is surrounded by gauze and silk, with scenes from the Moon Palace painted on it. There are also incense buckets made of incense threads, with Kuixing and colorful flags tied with paper inserted on them. The Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival feast is served with sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine.

Extended information

According to the Chinese calendar, the eighth month of the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn and is the second month of autumn. It is called "Zhongqiu", and the fifteenth day of August is in "Zhongqiu". "Mid-Autumn Festival", so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

The Mid-Autumn Festival has many other names: In ancient times, there was an activity to worship the moon on the eve of the autumnal equinox, so it was called "Moon Festival" or "Moon Sacrifice Festival". Because the festival falls on August 15th, it is called "August Festival" and "August Half"; because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all centered around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival"; the moon is full during the Mid-Autumn Festival , symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival".

The moon is full during the Mid-Autumn Festival, families are reunited, and married daughters go home to reunite, so it is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day". In Guangfu area, the Mid-Autumn Festival is commonly known as "Moonlight Festival". In mid-autumn, all kinds of fruits are ripe and on the market, so it is called the "Fruit Festival". The Dong people call it "Pumpkin Festival", and the Mulao people call it "Housheng Festival".