What kind of watermelon can be cut for the moon?

There is no fixed requirement for any kind of figure of moon watermelon. You can cut it into patterns if you want to look good.

/kloc-On the evening of 0/5, after the moon rises, the Yue Bai ceremony will be held in the yard, and some people will set sacrifices in the sky (facing the moon). Some will put the big moon cakes engraved with the moon pattern on the GUI Dian on the wooden frame as gods; Others regard the moon palace code as a god.

People mostly set up small low tables, and provide reunion cakes filled with natural red and brown sugar, various fruits except pears, watermelons with petals carved into lotus flowers, red cockscomb flowers and fragrant candles of edamame, money and grains.

After the Moon Palace Code is withdrawn, it should be incinerated in the courtyard. The straw didn't burn out, so it was pressed under the kang mat in the future.

After the moon was offered, the whole family enjoyed family happiness while tasting wine and eating melons and fruits, sharing moon cakes and reunion cakes in the yard.

meaning

The sacrificial culture of the Chinese nation expresses three basic emotional orientations of "respecting heaven, respecting earth and loving people", and worships three kinds of gods: God, Earth God and Ghost. Among the gods, there are three kinds of gods: God, Sun, Moon, Stars and Stars. The sun and the moon are one of the natural gods most worshipped by China's ancestors.

Why does the son of heaven worship the sun and the moon? Zheng Xuan said, "Show respect to those who are ashamed of the Japanese dynasty, and instruct the personnel and the monarch. The king's father is the sky, his mother is the earth, his brother is the sun and his sister is the moon. Therefore, he often regards the vernal equinox as the sun in the morning and the autumn equinox as the moon at night, which makes people feel uncomfortable. " The emperor regards himself as the son of God, taking heaven as his father, the earth as his mother, the sun as his brother, the moon as his sister, and the son of heaven worships the sun and the moon, which is not only awe, praying for protection, but also showing the meaning of "filial piety" to all the subjects in the world, that is, sacrificing heaven and earth to show filial piety, and sacrificing the sun and the moon to show compassion.

The time for offering sacrifices to the sun and the moon has been set at the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox since the Zhou Dynasty, which is called "dichotomy". Why do you want to make it these two days? This should start with astronomy and the twenty-four solar terms.

Every summer to the future, the sun moves southward from the Tropic of Cancer day by day until it reaches the longitude of the Yellow River 180 degrees around September 23rd (22-24) of the Gregorian calendar every year. At this time, the sun is almost directly at the equator, and further south, autumn in the northern hemisphere is over and winter is coming.

This moment is called the autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms. Ancestors believed that the sun belongs to the nature of yang and the moon belongs to the nature of yin. "Heaven and earth are supreme, so it is used to sacrifice two pairs of two." The sun and the moon are in the next life, the sun at the vernal equinox is eternal, and the yin at the autumnal equinox is long, so the sacrifice is divided into two points to get the meaning of yin and yang. "Zheng Xuan also said," The shoes of a gentleman are in the beginning and in the middle, so this is also divided. "Therefore, the vernal equinox and the autumnal equinox become the days of offering sacrifices to the sun and the moon respectively.

Sacrificial day is called "Asahi", and for the moon, it is called "Evening Moon". "Evening Moon Ceremony" has become a unique name for the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon.

Although Zhou Li has established the system of "the sun and the moon are divided into two parts", and the time of offering sacrifices to the sun and the moon in past dynasties is not absolutely fixed (fluctuations mainly occur in relatively short dynasties), on the whole, the spring and autumn division is still the most basic date for emperors to offer sacrifices to the sun and the moon.