Crafts for Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day

The handicrafts of Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are as follows:

First of all, cardboard lanterns

1. Fix the cardboard together with manual nails through the middle hole.

2. Nail the two ends by hand and fix them together.

3. Finally, cut a piece of wool and make it into the shape of a hair nail. Tie the hair nail to the manual nail below, then tie a thread to the manual nail above and tie it to a wooden stick.

Second, greeting cards

1. Draw the outline of the mountain with brown cardboard and the outline of the tree with green cardboard.

2. Cut out the shape of the full moon on the yellow cardboard and the shape of the cloud on the blue cardboard.

3. Stick the "mountain" on the white cardboard and stick the "tree" on the "mountain".

4. The moon is high in the sky, with several clouds around it, and then the trees are decorated with buttons. A greeting card with the theme of Mid-Autumn Festival is finished.

The origin of festivals

Mid-Autumn Festival is the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and Moon Palace Legend. It originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty.

The evening moon is the autumnal equinox when the ancient emperors offered sacrifices to the moon. "Li Zhouguan Chunzong Bo Dian Rui" Zheng Xuan notes: "The son of heaven always scores spring morning sun and late autumn sun." Pei Zhi's Biography of Historical Records of Xiaowu quoted Ying Shao as saying: "The son of heaven worships the sun outside the East Gate in spring and Yue Bai in autumn. The Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the evening is in the evening. " Now the Moon Altar in Beijing, formerly known as the Moon Altar, is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed the moon at the autumnal equinox.

Because there is not necessarily a moon on the night of the autumnal equinox, and the moon is not necessarily round, it will spoil the scenery, so people gradually put the autumnal equinox festival on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in August is the harvest season. The ancients held a ceremony to worship the land god, which was called Autumn Newspaper and Autumn Society. "White Tiger Tongzhou" contains: Mid-autumn moon, choose Yuan Day, make the people society. "Help God" says: Mid-spring prays for the valley, and mid-autumn harvests the valley, offering sacrifices to the millet. The late autumn moon festival can be regarded as the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Festival development

Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together. According to records, during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn in the Han Dynasty, there were activities of respecting the elderly and giving coarse cakes. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Before the Jin Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival was not popular in northern China.