Chinese Traditional Festivals in Classical Works

Examples of traditional Chinese festivals in the classics are as follows:

1, "Dream of Red Mansions", in addition to the Jia House in the boom and bust of the two time arrangements for the Mid-Autumn Festival family feast, the opening is also from the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Festival banquet, Zhen Shiyin and Jia Yucun sip a few cups of wine, Jia Yucun on the spur of the moment, wrote a poem, "Poem said : Whenever three or five will be reunited, full of sunny light to protect the jade fence. A round in the sky before holding out, the earth ten thousand people look up to see."

2. Zhang Dai, a prose writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, wrote about the Mid-Autumn Festival in Suzhou in his book Taoan Mengyi. On the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the city of Suzhou, people gathered in the land of Tiger Hill, where everyone, no matter what their status, met to have fun and enjoy the moon. It is a good time to enjoy poetry and wine.

3, "Water Margin", Shi Jin was originally a rich boy, he originally despised with the green man interaction, when he captured Chen Da and others, but in their softening pleading began to make friends with these people, and even in the Mid-Autumn Festival to invite these people to come to their homes to enjoy the moon, however, he was denounced.

Shi Jin eventually chose to join them on the road to becoming a bandit. A mid-autumn festival turns a man's fate and breaks the reunion.

4. Not all works contain extensive descriptions of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Another work of this period, "Plum in the Golden Vase", but seldom mentioned the Mid-Autumn Festival, "Plum in the Golden Vase" description is very detailed, especially in the holiday description of the cost of a lot of ink, will never miss the very important Mid-Autumn Festival.