Mid-Autumn Tweets

"Leaving home is for a better homecoming

No matter where you are in the world

It doesn't matter if your home is within an hour's drive or thousands of miles away

The light that is lit up at home

is the strength that we strive for in a foreign land"

Our Mid-Autumn Festival. From ancient times to the present, there are a lot of legends, rotten mid-autumn myths - Chang'e Runs to the Moon, Wu Gang False Cinnamon, etc., since there is no need to say more. A lot of legends, for the Mid-Autumn Festival cloaked in a mysterious color.

But the Mid-Autumn Festival for ordinary you and me, there is not so much mystery, the most important thing is the word "reunion".

The word "reunion" is easy to say, but who knows, for the sake of these two words, how many broken hearted people at the end of the world, looking up at the bright moon, flooded with thoughts, nowhere to flow ...

"The bright moon, bright, shining me in the bed.

I can't sleep in my sorrows, and I've been wandering around in my clothes.

The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and the second time I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.

I am not sure who I should tell about this, but who I should tell about it.

I'll lead you back to your room, and I'll tear my clothes off."

Maybe you are on the road and you are in a hurry, and suddenly you see the full moon in the sky, and a scene from the past comes to your mind, remembering your young face, laughing, enjoying the moon and eating the cake in the courtyard, as if it were yesterday.

Perhaps you are studying hard in a foreign country to prepare for the exam, suddenly you see the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" on the cell phone, the heart seems to have been violently impacted.

Perhaps you have been a parent for a long time, and you can't help but be overwhelmed by the bright moonlight on a quiet night, and think of your children, whom you haven't seen for a long time.

.........

Maybe...maybe we should stop

Go to the deepest part of your heart and be reunited

Reunited

Just like that day, the full moon is a mass of smiles. Round and bright.

Follow the guidance of your heart and embark on that lovely journey home.

I still remember when I was little, my impression of the Mid-Autumn Festival was the various flavors of mooncakes.

Mooncakes, mooncakes, green tea mooncakes, ginger tea mooncakes, iced mooncakes...

Each of these flavors is a fragrant memory.

I don't know what kind of mooncakes you all have eaten?

I just remember when my brothers and sisters and I, mischievous, but the elders are smiling and looking at the younger generation of us, a mouth a flavor of moon cakes, but also non-stop smash mouth.

Then, let me introduce what kinds of mooncakes we have ~

Mooncakes according to the regional division, mainly divided into Cantonese, Beijing-style, Su-style, Chao-style, Dian-style, etc., which Dian-style mooncakes and Cantonese mooncakes, Beijing-style mooncakes, Su-style mooncakes and known as the four major genres of Chinese mooncakes. Each type of mooncake is closely related to local eating habits, so each type of mooncake also has its own local characteristics.

The first type of mooncake is the Cantonese mooncake

It is usually round or square in shape, and its color varies depending on the material used for the outer crust.

Generally popular in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. Cantonese mooncakes have a thin skin and thick filling, soft texture characteristics, filling is mainly divided into sweet and salty two, the sweet category is generally lotus seed paste or a variety of fruit paste filling, salty category is generally five kernel filling or preserved sausage filling, but usually will add one or two salted egg yolks.

The second type of mooncake is the Beijing-style mooncake,

which is generally popular in Beijing, Tianjin and neighboring areas. The shape of the mooncake is close to that of the Cantonese mooncake, but it is flatter and smaller than the Cantonese mooncake.

The traditional Peking-style mooncake crust is mainly made of wheat flour, sugar, lard and baking soda, while the filling is more homogeneous, mainly made of rock sugar, peach kernel, melon kernel, osmanthus, plum or hawthorn cake, green and red silk, and sesame oil. Beijing-style moon cakes are generally mainly sweet, sweetness and skin filling ratio moderate, heavy use of sesame oil, sweet taste, crisp and loose texture.

The third type of mooncake is Su-style mooncake

Originally known as crispy mooncake, and then passed down to Su-style mooncake, loved by people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, with crispy skin, beautiful color, fat but not greasy filling, and fluffy taste

The fourth type of mooncake is Dian-style mooncake

Dian-style mooncake belongs to the Dian cuisine family, which is a traditional Han Chinese confectionery, in which the cloud-legged mooncake and the flower cake are the representative of the Dian-style mooncake, which mainly originated from Dian-style mooncake. Dian-style mooncakes are mainly originated and popular in Yunnan and its neighboring areas, and are different from other mooncakes in other regions. The main feature of Dian-style mooncakes is the use of Dian-style ham in the filling, which makes the crust loose, and the filling salty and sweet.

As a child, the impression of the Mid-Autumn Festival is only moon cakes, and we have grown up, the classic traditional culture can not be discarded, need to be passed from generation to generation by us, we also deserve to know the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so that we can spend the Mid-Autumn Festival beautiful and pleasant ~

The following introduces our Mid-Autumn Festival customs ~

First, the moon festival, moon, moon festival, moon worship

The Book of Rites Early recorded in the Book of Rites, "Autumn sunset moon", meaning the worship of the moon god, in ancient times at this time to be held to welcome the cold and the moon festival, set up incense, set up mooncakes, watermelon, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes, and other offerings, which mooncakes and watermelon is absolutely can not be missing, and the watermelon should also be cut into a lotus flower shape. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, red candles are lit high, and the whole family pays homage to the moon in turn, and then the housewife of the family cuts the mooncakes for reunion. The person who cuts it counts in advance how many people in the family ****, at home, out of town, should be counted together, can not cut more or less, the size should be the same. In the ethnic minorities, the same prevalence of moon worship custom.

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival custom in the Tang Dynasty is very popular, many poets have the famous poem of the moon, the literati to enjoy the moon is a favorite, or they climbed to the moon or canoeing to invite the moon, drinking poetry, leaving a lot of popular song of the ages. For example, Du Fu's "The Moon on the Fifteenth Night of the 8th Moon" and Su Shi's "Song of Songs in Water," a Song dynasty literary hero, use the moon's roundness as a metaphor for the separation of human beings. Until today, sitting together as a family and enjoying the beauty of the moon in the sky is still one of the indispensable activities during the Mid-Autumn Festival

Second, tide watching

In ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival moon watching in Zhejiang, tide watching was another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of mid-autumn tide watching has a long history, as early as in the Han Dynasty, Mei multiplied the "seven hair" in the fugue has a fairly detailed account. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching the tide in mid-autumn was even more prevalent. Ming Zhu Tinghuan "Additions to the old story of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu "Meng Liang Records" also have tide watching records.

Third, burning lamps

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lamps to help the moon. Nowadays, Hubei and Guangdong are still stacked with tiles in the tower on the tower of the festival custom of burning lamps. Jiangnan area has the custom of making lamp boat festival. In recent times, the custom of burning lamps in the Mid-Autumn Festival is more prevalent. Mid-autumn night light candle with a rope tied to a bamboo pole, erected on the eaves or terrace, or with small lamps built into characters or various shapes, hanging in the house high, commonly known as the 'tree in the autumn' or 'vertical mid-autumn'. The rich and noble families hanging lights, high can be several zhang, family members gathered under the lights drink for fun, ordinary people are erected a flagpole, two lanterns, but also to take their own fun.

Fourth, guess the lantern riddle

Mid-Autumn Moon full moon night in the public **** place hanging a lot of lanterns, people are gathered together, guess the riddles written on the lantern, because most young men and women love the activities, but also in these activities on the love story, so mid-autumn riddle guessing was derived from a form of men and women fall in love with each other.

Fifth, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine

People often eat mooncakes to enjoy osmanthus flowers and consume all kinds of food made of osmanthus flowers during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with pastries and candies being the most common. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the laurel in the moon, smelling the fragrance of osmanthus, drinking a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrating the sweetness of the family, has become a kind of enjoyment of the festival. In modern times, people mostly take red wine instead.

Sixth, play lanterns

Mid-Autumn Festival is not as large as the Lantern Festival lanterns, play lanterns are mainly only in the family, between children. Mid-autumn play lanterns, mostly concentrated in the South. Such as Foshan Autumn Colors, there are all kinds of colorful lanterns: sesame lamps, eggshell lamps, shavings lamps, straw lamps, fish scale lamps, cereal lamps, melon seed lamps and birds, animals, flowers and trees lamps. In Nanning, Guangxi, in addition to paper and bamboo lanterns for children to play with, there are also simple pomelo lanterns, pumpkin lanterns and orange lanterns. The so-called pomelo lamp, is the pomelo hollowed out, carved out a simple pattern, put on the rope, inside the candle into, light elegant.

Seventh, burning tower

The game of burning Wazi lanterns (or burning flower tower, burning Wata, burning Panta) is widely spread in the south. Chaozhou, Guangdong, burning tile tower, is a hollow tower made of brick and tile, filled with twigs burning fire. At the same time, they also burn smoke piles, which are piles of grass and firewood that are burned at the end of the moon worship. The burning of the pagoda in the border area of Guangxi is also similar to this activity, but folklore says that it is to commemorate the heroic battle of Liu Yongfu, a famous general in the Qing Dynasty, who fled into the pagoda and burned to death the ghosts (French invaders). In Fujian Jinjiang, there is also the activity of "burning pagodas".

I just entered the university life, after the end of the military training, this is the first time I left home for the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The heart is still tied to that piece of land, thousands of miles away from home. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

My parents sent me a lot of specialties from my hometown, including mooncakes. Looking at a large box of parental care for me, the heart can not restrain the thoughts, even more.

May we, as strangers, strive to become what we want to be and live up to their love in the love and care of our relatives and friends. Next Mid-Autumn Festival, I pray we can return to them.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

We, all of us, will **** enjoy a bright moon,

I wish you all the best, peace and joy.

We wish you all the best, peace and happiness.