![]() ![]() In the middle of the eighth month of the lunisolar calendar, on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at the village head and end people will set an altar, placing the sacred offerings and censers, and erect a branch or bamboo pole, about one foot high, symbolizing Sheshu (referred to a proper tree planted in a proper place), which is also used as a ladder for the Moon Goddess to descend to the world and go back to heaven. The activity of "sacrificing to the moon and inviting gods" of Zhuang people in West Guangxi is more typical. Zhuang Ethnic People celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival by singing in antiphonal style. Tu people fill the basin with clear water so that the reflection of the moon can project into the basin, and then, people ceaselessly strike the moon in the basin with little stones, which is called "striking the moon". In sacrificing to the moon, Oroqen people put a basin of water in the open, set offerings there, and then kneel down before the basin and kowtow to the moon. They don't finish until they have enjoyed themselves to the full. Finally, all family members will happily sit at the little square table, tasting food, talking, laughing and enjoying the moon. Then they'll fire powder shotguns to the sky to honor Yan Jian, the hero. Once the moon comes up over the mountain forest, they will light the joss sticks and all family members will start to "worship the moon". They put a circular glutinous rice pie on each corner of the table and imbed a stick of unlit joss stick in each pie. Grannies are busy pounding glutinous rice and cooking food of various sizes. Young women are busy going to lakes and ponds catching fish, and preparing for festival dinners. Later, after his unfortunate death, he became the moon and rose into the sky giving off the soft moonlight and giving light to the Dai people in the dark.Įvery Mid-Autumn Festival, in order to hunt for festival game men go up onto the hills and shoot fire finches and pheasants with powder shotguns early in the morning. Yan Jian was a heroic and strong youth who led the Dai people to beat enemies and won Dai folks over. On the evening of the Moon Festival, moon worship is popular among the Dai people in Yunnan.īased on the Dai legend, the moon was once Yan Jian, the third son of the Emperor of Heaven. ![]()
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