Traditional culture Mid-Autumn Festival stories and activities of the origin of what to eat

1, story: there is a rabbit in the moon, white as jade, so people called "Jade Rabbit", it is said that the Jade Rabbit knelt down and pounded medicine, made of toadstools, regular people if you take the toadstools, you can live forever.

On the origin of the Jade Rabbit, there is a beautiful legend. In ancient times, there were three immortals who disguised themselves as three poor old men and begged for food from foxes, monkeys and rabbits. The fox and the monkey were reluctant to take out their own food to help them, but the rabbit, who had no food, told the old men, "If you are hungry, come and eat me."

After that, he jumped into the fire, and the three immortals were so moved that they sent the rabbit's spirit to the Palace of Guanghan, where it became the Jade Rabbit. Later, the Jade Rabbit kept company with Chang'e in the Guanghan Palace and pounded the elixir of immortality for the people.

2, enjoy the moon

China since ancient times, there is the custom of sacrificing the moon and enjoying the moon. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Night was held to welcome the cold and moon worship activities. Mid-Autumn Moon Festival custom is very popular in the Tang Dynasty, many poets have famous poems about the moon. To the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival wind even more prevalent, every day, "the noble family decorative platforms and pavilions, the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon".

The Ming and Qing court and civil moon worship and moon viewing activities on a larger scale, China has survived many "moon worship altar", "moon worship pavilion", "moon building" and other monuments. Literati to the moon is a favorite, or they climbed the moon or canoeing to invite the moon, drinking and poetry, leaving many popular songs of the ages.

For example, Du Fu's "Moon on the Fifteenth Night of the August Moon" used the fifteenth moon as a symbol of reunion to reflect the sadness of their own wandering; Su Shi, the Song Dynasty literary great, drinking at Mid-Autumn Festival, drunkenness, and the "Song of Water", a metaphor of the moon's roundness for the separation of human beings. Until today, the family sits together to enjoy the beauty of the moon in the sky is still one of the essential activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival.