Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - Composition on the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
Composition on the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
There are many traditional festivals in China: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival.
Among them, my favorite is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Legend has it that there were ten suns in the sky in the past, which split the earth and dried up the rivers, making it impossible for people to survive.
A hero named Hou Yi shot nine suns at a time and saved everyone.
People gave him "elixir of life" to thank him.
Hou Yi was reluctant to eat, so he gave it to his wife Chang 'e for safekeeping.
Hou Yi had an apprentice named Pang Meng who was bent on getting this "elixir of life".
One day, he pretended to be ill and took advantage of Houyi's hunting to force Chang 'e to hand over the "elixir of life".
Chang 'e hastily swallowed the "elixir of life" and flew to the moon.
Since then, Chang 'e and Hou Yi can only look at each other from a distance and miss each other.
Therefore, people call this day "Mid-Autumn Festival". On this day, they go to Yue Bai and eat moon cakes to express their thoughts for their loved ones.
There are many customs in Mid-Autumn Festival, such as eating moon cakes, but do you know the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival?
According to legend, Hou Yi went up the mountain to find friends to visit Tao. Seeing the Queen Mother of the West passing by, he asked her for a bag of elixir.
After returning home, Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife Chang 'e, so he temporarily gave Chang 'e the elixir for safekeeping.
But this happened to be seen by disciple Pang Meng, and Pang Meng became a bad egg.
Once Hou Yi took his apprentice to hunt, and Pang Meng pretended to be ill and stayed.
As soon as Hou Yi left, Pang Meng nodded and broke into the room, forcing Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e had no choice but to have a brainwave and swallow the elixir in one gulp.
Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, Chang 'e flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy.
When Hou Yi came back, he found Chang 'e in the sky and said to him, "The moon will become round tonight. You make a piece of dough in the northeast corner of the house at night, and we'll get together at midnight. "
"Hou Yi did as Chang 'e said, and at midnight, the couple finally got together.
When they left, Chang 'e said to Hou Yi, "Every August 15, you have to make dough until I come back in the middle of the night." Make dough every year, waiting for Chang 'e to come back.
Later, this custom was inherited by everyone and developed into the current Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival has also become a custom.
September 2 1 day is the Mid-Autumn Festival. I spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home and enjoy the moon.
Many people must want to know the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival. Let me tell you something.
Mid-Autumn Festival, as the name implies, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in Zhou Li.
According to the ancient calendar of China, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is in the middle of August in autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival.
There are four seasons in a year, and each season is divided into three parts: Bangladesh, China and Kyrgyzstan. Therefore, the second month of the Mid-Autumn Festival is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that it became a fixed festival.
The Book of the New Tang Dynasty (Volume XV) and Records of Rites and Music contain "Spring and Autumn Period in Wang Wenxuan and Wang Wucheng", and "In the 19th year of Kaiyuan, Taigong Fu Shang Temple was set up, with Sean in Liu Hou as its partner.
There are sacrifices in mid-spring and mid-autumn festival, and the system of sacrificial music is like a text. "
According to historical records, the festival that the ancient emperors sacrificed to the moon was the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which happened to be half that of Sanqiu, hence the name "Mid-Autumn Festival". Because this festival is in August in autumn, it is also called Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. There are also beliefs and related custom activities that pray for reunion, so they are also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day".
Because the main activities of Mid-Autumn Festival are all around the moon, it is also commonly known as "Moon Festival", "Moon Festival" and "Moon Worship Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also called "correcting the moon".
The prevalence of Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and it became one of the major festivals in China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
About the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, there are roughly three kinds: it originated from the worship of the moon in ancient times, the custom of singing and dancing under the moon to find a spouse, and the custom of paying homage to the land god in ancient autumn.
What must I eat on Mid-Autumn Festival? You must know, moon cakes, of course.
Moon cake is the first food in Mid-Autumn Festival, and there are different opinions about its origin.
Moon cakes originally originated from Zhu Jie food in the Tang Dynasty.
During the reign of Tang Gaozu, General Li Jing conquered the Turks through the hidden information of moon cakes, and returned home in triumph on August 15. Since then, eating moon cakes has become an annual custom.
Turpan people who were doing business at that time presented cakes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
Gao Zu Li Yuan took the gorgeous cake box, took out the round cake, smiled at the bright moon in the sky and said, "Please invite toad with Hu cake." .
After that, share the cake with the ministers.
Eat moon cakes to show "reunion"
Moon cakes, also known as Hu cakes, Palace cakes, Moon dumplings, Harvest cakes, Reunion cakes, etc. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival.
According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn.
In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon.
The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the Mid-Autumn moon cake is sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn night.
At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually, moon cakes became a necessary gift for the festival.
Legend has it that this is how the Mid-Autumn Festival came about. In the Yuan Dynasty, a man named Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled against the rule of the Yuan Dynasty with the people. Strategist Liu Bowen once came up with a plan. Because the officers and men of the Yuan Dynasty were very heavily guarded, it was very difficult to deliver the news, so he hid the message note on August 15th in a cake and sent it to the insurgents all over the country. Sure enough, the plan worked, everyone United and finally won the battle. The rebels and the people had a great time, and distributed the "moon cakes" that sent messages to everyone to eat. Since then, moon cakes have been born.
Moon cakes are indispensable for Mid-Autumn Festival. People in China will eat a moon cake on the Mid-Autumn Festival. What are moon cakes like? Let me introduce you! Mooncakes mean reunion. The appearance of moon cakes is a golden skin with various patterns printed on it, which is very beautiful. Just looking at the appearance makes people drool, and the stuffing is delicious. There are many kinds of fillings in moon cakes. There are mung beans, five kernels, lotus seed yolk, pure lotus seeds ... my favorite are lotus seed yolk moon cakes and five kernels moon cakes. Mooncakes with lotus seed paste and egg yolk are one of the most classic flavors. When we gently bite, we will first taste the sweetness and softness of lotus paste, which will melt in the mouth, and then bite into it with a salty egg yolk. At this time, the sweetness and saltiness will not conflict, but complement each other, so that the whole moon cake is not sweet or greasy, just right, and its delicious taste is really irresistible. If you are a foodie, you will definitely have a full meal at a time. The stuffing of Wuren moon cake is almond, peach kernel, peanut kernel, hemp seed and melon seed kernel, so it is called "Wuren moon cake". When we take a bite, we will feel dry, but when we chew the stuffing slowly, there will be a mouthful of nuts, black sesame seeds, melon seeds and almonds. ...
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, we began to have a reunion dinner. Too rich. There are crabs, fish and beef. Our family sat around the dining table, eating delicious food and enjoying the Mid-Autumn Festival party.
Everyone is very happy this year, because it is a very happy thing for a family to get together.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let me tell you about the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival:
Hou Yi and his wife Chang 'e were immortals in the sky, but they were framed by villains and demoted to the world. Hou Yi is very kind and continues to do good on earth. At that time, the son of the Jade Emperor was the sun, and there were ten suns. One day, the sun went to heaven to play together, and the crops could not live. Many people starved to death. Hou Yi just took a deep breath and shot down nine suns with one arrow, leaving only one sun for the benefit of mankind, Jade. The Queen Mother found Hou Yi and gave him an elixir. Eat it, and he can live forever. However, Hou Yi could not bear to part with Chang 'e, so he hid the elixir. But all this was seen by Hou Yi's bad disciples. He wanted the elixir very much, so on the way to practice the next day, the bad disciple pretended to have a stomachache and asked Hou Yi. The apprentice ran to Houyi's house and forced Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. After Chang 'e got the elixir, she didn't want this disciple to harm anyone, so she ate it, found herself airy, and then flew to the moon. There was only a talking rabbit on the moon, but Chang 'e never returned to the earth.
To commemorate Chang 'e, people call this day Mid-Autumn Festival. Because the moon is full on this day, they invented moon cakes. On this day, the whole family will eat moon cakes together.
According to legend, ten suns appeared in the sky at the same time in ancient times, which scorched crops and made the people miserable. A hero named Hou Yi has infinite power. He sympathized with the suffering people, climbed the top of Kunlun Mountain, drew his bow, shot down nine suns in one breath, and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people.
Therefore, Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people and married a beautiful and kind wife named Chang 'e. He spends all his time with his wife except hunting, and people are envious of this beautiful and loving couple. Many people with lofty ideals came here to study as teachers, and Pang Meng with ulterior motives also joined in.
Once, Hou Yi accidentally got an elixir, which is said to make him immortal. But he was reluctant to part with Chang 'e, so he gave the elixir to Chang 'e for safekeeping, but Pang Meng saw it. When Hou Yi was not at home, he threatened Chang 'e to hand it over. Forced to do so, Chang 'e swallowed it herself and rose to the sky, but she was worried that Hou Yi would become immortal on the moon closest to the ground. ...
Hou Yi was heartbroken because he could not find Chang 'e. He knelt down and wept bitterly all night, only to find that the moon in the night was particularly bright, and the figure in the middle of the month resembled Chang 'e. Helpless, he put on the incense table and bowed down to the moon, hoping that Chang 'e would come back to him. This day happens to be the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Since then, in order to commemorate this kind couple, people come to Yue Bai to eat a sweet and round snack every year, which shows the sweet reunion of Houyi Chang 'e. This snack is today's moon cake.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and everyone has his own habits. Some go shopping in the supermarket; Some people eat moon cakes at home; Others enjoy the moon on the balcony at home ... I open the window at home and look at the bright and big moon.
Looking at the moon, I slowly remembered a legend: once upon a time, there was a man named Hou Yi who was loved by the villagers because he shot down nine suns. Later, he married a wife named Chang 'e. Hou Yi gave his wife a bag of elixirs he asked for from the Queen Mother. One day, a man heard that Hou Yi had got a pack of elixir. While Hou Yi was out hunting, he took a knife and threatened Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she could never beat him, so she took out the elixir of life and swallowed it herself. Immediately, Chang 'e turned into a wisp of smoke and floated into the sky, becoming a fairy. When Hou Yi knew it, he raised his knife to find the man, who had escaped. This is the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.
I looked at the moon as if someone were dancing on it. Is that the shadow of Chang 'e? Later, I saw that the moon was so big, so round and so bright. ...
It's really "the autumn moon hangs in the sky, and Guanghua is wet." On Mid-Autumn Festival, it is really a happy thing for a family to have a happy meal.
The Mid-Autumn Festival begins on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is round! At that time, people had the custom of eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon.
Let me introduce the Mid-Autumn Festival to you! The Mid-Autumn Festival, also called the Reunion Festival, has a touching story! According to legend, Hou Yi shot nine suns, and the gods punished him. He's getting old. He said to his wife Chang 'e, "I'm going to ask the gods for two longevity pills, so that we can live forever." When Hou Yi finished speaking, he went to the place where the gods were. He slept on the road, traveled day and night, and finally came to God's house. God gave him two longevity pills. Hou Yi thanked the gods and hurried on. After returning home, he gave two longevity pills to Chang 'e for safekeeping. At this time, I was accidentally seen by the bad guys, and the bad guys began to play the idea of longevity pills. In the dead of night, the bad guys came out and killed Hou Yi. At this time, Chang 'e woke up. She swallowed the longevity pill at once. Unexpectedly, she flew, the Jade Rabbit jumped into her hand, and Chang 'e slowly flew to Guanghan Palace. She turned the moon disk and found the hiding place of the bad guys. Let people catch bad guys. From then on, on the day when the bad guys killed Hou Yi, that is, August 15th, she would turn the brightest side of the moon plate over, so that people could find the hiding place of the bad guys. To commemorate Chang 'e, August 15 is designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The story is good, and the moon cakes are more delicious!
Some people say that a long time ago, there were 10 suns in the sky, and nothing grew on them. Later, a man named Hou Yi was very powerful and shot down nine suns with his divine power.
Later, Hou Yi married a man named Chang 'e. Hou Yi accepted another apprentice.
One day, Hou Yi asked Huang, the queen, for an elixir of life, which could turn her into a fairy. Hou Yi asked Chang 'e to keep the elixir of life. Unfortunately, it was seen by the villain Pang Meng. He wants to take the elixir to make himself immortal. A few days later, Hou Yi went out hunting, and Pang Meng took advantage of Hou Yi's absence to force Chang 'e to hand over the elixir with his sword. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Pang Meng, so she took out the elixir and swallowed it. Chang 'e became a fairy, but Chang 'e was very concerned about her husband and flew to the nearest moon.
In the evening, when Hou Yi knew what had happened and wanted to kill Pang Meng, the villain Pang Meng had escaped. After returning home, Hou Yi was worried about Chang 'e and ordered offerings and * * * fruits in Chang 'e's favorite garden.
Later, people learned about it, and they learned to light fragrant fruits. Later, they developed into eating moon cakes. I hope to bless them.
Mid-Autumn Festival composition 10 The mica screen is dark, the long river is gradually falling, the morning star is sinking, Chang 'e should destroy the elixir, the blue sea is clear, and the night heart is a poem about the Mid-Autumn Festival. How did it come into being? Listen to the story of Mid-Autumn Festival if you want to know!
It turns out that Chang 'e is Hou Yi's wife. Both she and Hou Yi were immortals, but they both violated the dogma and were ordered to return to the world. Hou Yi is used to the happiness of the world, but Chang 'e, who knows the natural law of human birth, aging, illness and death, is always sad. So Hou Yi wants to make Chang 'e happy, so he rides his swift horse, crosses many mountains, runs across endless beaches, crosses a small river, and finally comes to Kunlun Mountain, where fruit trees become immortals. He asked the queen mother, the patron saint of the tree, for the fruit on the tree, and then went home and gave it to Chang 'e, saying, "Let's choose a good day and eat fruit together." .
Chang 'e nodded. In the evening, Hou Yi went out. Chang 'e stole the fruit and flew to become a monk, but she didn't fly to the heavenly palace on the cloud, but to the Guanghan Palace on the moon. There is only one Gui, WU GANG, and the Jade Rabbit who has been tinkering with medicine all the year round, and nothing else. Chang 'e regretted not being in a hurry. She looks at the ground from the window every day, hoping to see her home. On August 15, we will eat moon cakes and watch the moon to commemorate it.
- Previous article:Why is the right side honored?
- Next article:What interesting theme parks are there in China?
- Related articles
- National Day related hardcopy calligraphy works
- What are the tit-for-tat views of philosophers
- What's interesting about Chengmai Ancient Town in Hainan?
- Stone table and chairs size specifications introduction price manufacturers recommended
- The Origin of Ice, Winter and Snow
- English translation of Japanese food
- How to steam cakes in an electric pressure cooker?
- Shanxi college entrance examination liberal arts score line
- /kloc-How about moving in October/February? What should I pay attention to when moving?
- What are the problems of financial management of small and medium-sized enterprises?