Mid-autumn handwritten newspaper stereoscopic painting

The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in northern China in the Tang Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival, about in the Tang Dynasty. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Chang 'an area in Tang Dynasty. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces.

The Mid-Autumn Festival combines fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang's felling of laurel, Jade Rabbit's smashing medicine, Yang Guifei's changing to the moon god, and Tang Dynasty's visit to the moon palace, making it full of romance, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.

The protagonist of Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes. There are many legends about the origin of moon cakes, and the more popular view appeared in the Tang Dynasty. In the early Tang Dynasty, the East Turkistan was powerful. Tang gaozu rose from Taiyuan and surrendered to Turk Khan, in exchange for relative stability in the north. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks supported the separatist forces such as Xue Ju and Liu Wuzhou to fight against the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, he relied on the army to strengthen Mazhuang and constantly invaded and transferred troops south. In order to pacify the invasion of foreign enemies in the north, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan appointed Li Jing, a famous soldier at that time, as commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition (marching general) to counter the Turks and finally win.

The day of Li Jing's triumph happened to be August 15, and that night Turpan people just presented cakes to Li Yuan. At that time, Li Yuan was sharing the good news of Li Jing's victory with ministers. He was very happy to see the round cake. He smiled at the sky and blurted out, "We should invite toads to eat Hu cakes." The general meaning of this sentence is, please come down to earth and share this delicious Hu cake with everyone. Tang gaozu then distributed Hu cakes to ministers, who tasted them together and enjoyed the moon together. It is said that the custom of eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 came from this and spread from the court to the people.

The warmest lamp tonight is probably the moonlight on the way home.

The moon under the sea is the moon in the sky, and the person in front of you is a sweetheart.