What are the different customs around Mid-Autumn Festival?

It's Mid-Autumn Festival again. At this time, all the wanderers want to go home and reunite with their parents. Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion. In my hometown, celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival means eating a big meal.

Now the living standard has improved, which is no different from the bitter days when I was a child. At that time, I was young and ignorant, and I always looked forward to eating well on holidays.

When I was a child, my mother would tell us not to let her chickens go one night in advance. The next morning, she will catch one and kill it. At this time, I will watch my mother operate, and I won't feel cruel at all, because I want to eat chicken so much.

After my mother cuts and washes the chicken, she will stir-fry it in the pot and boil it into soup, and the fragrance will come out.

Dad went to buy meat and moon cakes. At that time, the moon cakes were five kernels, with orange peel and rock sugar, which was my favorite. Because I bought less, my father said to save it for the night of enjoying the moon, but I couldn't wait until then. Often eat in advance, eat a rock sugar, just like treasure hunting. If I eat it, I will be very happy.

I often eat a chicken leg when the meal is ready, but I can't eat anything delicious, which is often recited by my mother.

Children will also ask when they meet, did you buy moon cakes at home? If the little friend doesn't buy it, he is not happy at all.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, chestnuts were already available. We will fry some or cook some as snacks, and the fruits will be apples and oranges. Our feelings are the same as those of the Spring Festival. We are very happy, but we are told by our parents that our children know the happiness of the festival, but they don't know the hardships.

Now I have grown up, but I can no longer find the happiness of my childhood, and I can't eat the moon cakes in that memory. Even my mother said that mooncakes are not as delicious as before.