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1. About the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival: The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year. It is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because it is the middle of the fall season of the year. In the Chinese Lunar Calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each of which is divided into three parts: the Meng, the Zhong and the Quarter, and thus the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the 15th day of the 8th month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, which is why it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival". Our people in ancient times, there is "autumn sunset moon" custom. The moon, that is, worship the moon god. To the Zhou Dynasty, every mid-autumn night should be held to welcome the cold and moon festival. A large incense burner was set up, and mooncakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings were placed on the table, of which mooncakes and watermelons were absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut in the shape of a lotus flower. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, red candles are lit high, the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the housewife in charge cuts the mooncakes for reunion. Cutting people count in advance how many people in the family ****, at home, in the field, should be counted together, not cut more or less, the same size. Legend has it that the ancient Qi ugly girl without salt, young, had devoutly worshiped the moon, grew up, to superb character into the palace, but was not favored. One year, on the 15th day of the 8th month to enjoy the moon, the Son of Heaven saw her under the moonlight, found her beautiful and outstanding, and later established her as the Empress, from which the Mid-Autumn Moon Worship is derived. Chang'e in the moon, known for her beauty, so young girls worship the moon, wishing to "look like Chang'e, face like the white moon". In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, playing with the moon is quite popular. In the Northern Song Dynasty. On the night of August 15, people all over the city, rich or poor, old or small, should put on adult clothes, burn incense to worship the moon to say the wish, pray for the moon god's blessing. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people gave moon cakes to each other, taking the meaning of reunion. In some places, there are also dancing grass dragon, building pagodas and other activities. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival has become more prevalent; many places have formed special customs such as burning incense, tree mid-autumn, lighting tower lamps, releasing sky lanterns, walking on the moon, dancing fire dragons, and so on. Today, the custom of playing under the moon is far less popular than in the old days. But the feast to enjoy the moon is still very prevalent, people drink to the moon, to celebrate a better life, or to wish distant relatives healthy and happy, and family members "thousands of miles *** Canyuan Juan". Mid-Autumn Festival customs are many, the form is also different, but they all send people to the infinite love of life and the desire for a better life. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival and legend: Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and other traditional festivals, is also the slow development of the formation of the ancient emperors had a spring festival of the sun, the autumn festival of the moon ritual system, as early as in the "Rites of Zhou" book, there has been a "Mid-Autumn Festival" the word recorded. Later, the aristocrats and scholars also followed suit, in the mid-autumn festival, to the sky and bright and round round moon, ornamental worship, to send feelings, this custom is so spread to the people, forming a traditional activity, until the Tang Dynasty, the custom of the moon festival more people attach importance to, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a fixed festival, "the Book of the Tang Dynasty - record of the Emperor Taizong," recorded in the "15th of August, the Mid-Autumn Festival "Tang Book - Taizong Records" recorded "August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival", this festival was prevalent in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has been on a par with the New Year's Day, become one of the major festivals in China. The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich, Chang'e runs to the moon, Wu Gang fells the laurel, the Jade Rabbit pounds medicine and other mythological stories are widely spread. One of the Mid-Autumn Festival legend - Chang'e to the moon Legend has it that, in ancient times, there are ten days in the sky at the same time, sunburned crops withered, the people do not have enough to live on, a hero named Houyi, great strength, he sympathized with the suffering people, climbed to the top of the Kunlun Mountains, transported all the power, pull open the bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and strictly ordered the last sun rise and fall on time, for the benefit of the people. The last sun was ordered to rise and set on time for the benefit of the people. Hou Yi was thus honored and loved by the people, and he married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang'e. Hou Yi, in addition to the art of hunting, all day with his wife, people are envious of this pair of talented and loving couple. Many aspirants came to learn from the master, and Peng Meng, who was not right-minded, also got involved. One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit friends and seek Taoism, and coincidentally met the Queen Mother who passed by, so he asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that if you took this medicine, you could instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not leave his wife behind, so he temporarily gave the immortality pill to Chang'e to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in the treasure box of the dresser, but was unexpectedly seen by the villain Peng Meng, who wanted to steal the immortality pill to become immortal himself. Three days later, Hou Yi and his disciples went out to hunt, and Peng Meng pretended to be sick and stayed behind. Soon after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the mansion with a sword in his hand and forced Chang E to give up the immortality pill. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, and in a moment of crisis, she made a snap decision, turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang'e swallowed the medicine, her body immediately floated away from the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew to the sky. Because Chang'e was attached to her husband, she flew down to the closest to the earth on the moon and became immortal. In the evening, Hou Yi returned home and his maids cried about what happened during the day. Hou Yi both shocked and angry, drew the sword to kill the villains, Peng Meng early escape, Hou Yi angry chest beating, grief, looking up at the night sky calling his wife's name, then he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright, and there is a swaying figure like Chang E. He desperately chased towards the moon. He desperately chased the moon, but he chased three steps, the moon back three steps, he retreated three steps, the moon into three steps, no matter how can not catch up with the front. Hou Yi had no choice but to send someone to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruits, and sacrificed to Chang'e, who was fond of herself in the Moon Palace. When the people heard the news that Chang'e had run to the moon and become immortal, they set up incense under the moon and prayed to the kind Chang'e for good luck and peace. From then on, the custom of worshipping the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people. Mid-Autumn Festival Legend No. 2 - Wu Gang Folding the Laurel There is another legend about the Mid-Autumn Festival: According to legend, the laurel tree in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon grows luxuriantly, with a height of more than 500 zhang, and there is a man who often cuts it down, but every time he cuts it down, the cut place immediately closes up again. For thousands of years, it was cut down and closed up in this way, and the laurel tree could never be cut down. It is said that the man who chopped down the tree was named Wu Gang, a man from Xihe in Han Dynasty, who had followed the immortals to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace, where he was punished by doing this kind of futile and hard work day after day. Li Bai's poem "want to hack the moon in the laurel, hold for the cold pay" records. Mid-Autumn Legend No. 3 - Zhu Yuanzhang and mooncake uprising Mid-Autumn Festival eating mooncakes is said to have begun in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the people of the Central Plains could not stand the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class and rose up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang united all the resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bowen, the military advisor, came up with a plan to order his subordinates to hide the note with the message "Rise on the 15th of August" inside a cake, and then sent people to deliver it to the rebel armies around the world, informing them to rise on the night of the 15th of August to respond to the revolt. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire. Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan capital and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an order to let all the generals and soldiers have fun with the people in the coming Mid-Autumn Festival, and rewarded the ministers with "mooncakes", which were used to secretly deliver messages during the time of the revolt, as festive pastries. Since then, the "moon cake" production more and more fine, more varieties, as large as a disk, become a gift of goodies. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating moon cakes will be spread in folklore. 2. ****existing culture can easily become the focus of neighboring countries to bid for heritage competition, tangible cultural heritage is difficult to compete, intangible cultural heritage has become the focus. Many of China's neighboring countries are influenced by Chinese civilization. Vietnam's successful inscription of Yalu, Indonesia's and Cambodia's successful inscription of shadow puppets, and South Korea's successful inscription of "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" are all based on this strategy. When declaring these intangible cultural heritages, they especially highlight the local characteristics and emphasize the differences with the existing culture of China. Because one of the evaluation criteria of the world cultural heritage is uniqueness, that is, "the value of the declared project itself represents a unique achievement, a masterpiece of creative genius". Such an application can also be said to be strategically competing for the interpretation and ownership of the ****surviving culture. The cultural heritage declarations of South Korea and China are already in full-blown conflict. South Korea has a writer recently wrote a book, said the war with the Yellow Emperor Chi is the ancestor of the Koreans, and our Chinese Miao, Yao has always believed that Chi is their ancestor. Chi You and the Yellow Emperor war took place in Hebei, and now there is still a Chi You village in Hebei, and the remains of the salt ponds that were fought over back then. China's Miao is very anxious, Guizhou and Hunan many Miao brothers are contacting the global Miao held a meeting to discuss the Chi problem. Koreans reason, Korean ancestors are Goryeo people, Chi belongs to Nine Li, in the ancient sound of Nine Li and Goryeo is the same sound, Nine Li is Goryeo. Koreans also argued that soy milk is not invented by the Chinese, the Korean people not only invented soy milk, but also invented tofu. In 2007, Koreans officially declared the "Confucius Ceremony" as a cultural heritage. Confucius was Chinese, and the "Confucius Ceremony" also originated in China, but in Korea, from the state to the city, county, village, family, school, Confucius worship has not been interrupted, we have a national festival, county festival, family festival, school festival, but where do you worship Confucius in China? Therefore, the "Confucius Ceremony" may also become a Korean cultural heritage. The Koreans say that "movable type printing" was invented by Koreans. Chinese and Korean scholars have been arguing about this for 50 years, but the Koreans say that your Chinese characters are engraved on oracle bones, wood, and bronzes, whereas we make movable type from clay, and that the combination of movable type printing was invented by us Koreans. As a result, the technology of movable type printing, which was invented by Bisong, who had a written record of his invention, faced a great challenge from the Koreans. In April 2007, South Korea printed the geomancy invented by Zhang Heng on their banknotes. The whole world knows that geomancy was invented in China, and Korean officials and businessmen have still made geomancy a part of Korean culture. Now Koreans are also suggesting that they invented paper as well - didn't the Chinese say that Koryo paper was the best paper? And Koryo paper is Korean paper, so the birthplace of paper is not China but Korea. And Chinese medicine, South Korea has spent a number of years to do Chinese medicine heritage. Because the "Han" in "Korean medicine" and the "Han" in "Chinese medicine" have the same sound, Chinese medicine has become Korean medicine. When China protested, they explained that the Chinese medicine we declared was not all Chinese medicine, but only a book entitled "Health Care in Traditional Chinese Medicine" within Chinese medicine. As a matter of fact, the author of "Health Care in Chinese Medicine" is a man from Shandong, who came to Korea and wrote this book "Health Care in Chinese Medicine" in accordance with the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine". 3. Our country is an ancient civilization with a history of 5,000 years, and our ancestors have left us a rich cultural heritage. How to treat traditional culture correctly is an important issue. Here, there are two wrong attitudes towards traditional culture that are not desirable: one is to adopt a nihilistic or abolitionist attitude, to reject all traditional Chinese culture without question, to categorize it as "feudal, superstitious, backward" or even "reactionary", or to categorize it as "traditional culture", or even "reactionary". "They have even blamed traditional culture for the poverty and weakness of modern China and the current difficulties in China. The second is indiscriminate wholesale affirmation, and does not allow people to have any doubt and criticism, otherwise it is to belittle Chinese culture, forgetting the ancestors, foreign pandering

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