Mid-Autumn Festival Handbook Middle School Complete Anime

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals on a par with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially for local Chinese.

Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and on May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the list of the first national intangible cultural heritage.

The Mid-Autumn Festival custom was popular in the northern part of China during the Tang Dynasty. It was around the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national holiday. It was recorded in the Book of the Tang Dynasty (《唐书-太宗记》) that the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The custom of enjoying the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival flourished in the Chang'an area during the Tang Dynasty, and many poets wrote about the moon in their famous poems. And will be the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chang'e Run to the Moon, Wu Gang felled cinnamon, the Jade Rabbit pounded medicine, Yang Guifei into the Moon God, Tang Ming Huang tour of the Moon Palace and other myths combined, so that it is full of romantic colors, play the wind of the moon before the great rise. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were blended and finalized, and the main part of them has been passed down to the present day.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. In literature, the festival food of "small cakes like chewing the moon, with pastry and syrup" appeared. Such as Meng Yuan Lao "Tokyo Dreaming Records" said: "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the noble family decorative platforms and pavilions, the folk fight to take over the restaurant to play the moon"; and "the string heavy boiling, near the residents of the Yan Yan, late at night when I heard the sound of the sheng yao, like the clouds outside. Between the children, even the night wedding play; night market parallel, to the dawn".

Ming and Qing dynasties, the age of festivals in the secular interest is more and more intense. Ming and Qing dynasties of the moon activities, "the sacrifice of fruit cake must be round", each family to set up "moonlight bit", in the direction of the moon "to the moon and worship". Lu Qihong, "Beijing Years and Years", "Mid-Autumn Festival night, people set up the Moon Palace Fu image, Fu on the free as a person standing; Chen fruits and melons in the court, the cake surface painted Moon Palace toad free; men and women worship burn incense, Dan and burned." The Imperial Capital Scenic Spectacle" also said: "August 15 moon festival, the cake must be round, divided into melons must be teeth wrong, petals carved like a lotus flower. ...... whose women return to the Ning, is the day must return to the husband's home, said reunion festival also." ?

Development to date, eating moon cakes has been China's north and south of the Mid-Autumn Festival across the necessary customs. Mooncake symbolizes the great reunion, people take it as festival food, use it to worship the moon, gift relatives and friends.? In addition to mooncakes, a variety of seasonal fresh and dried fruits are also the delicacies of the Mid-Autumn Night.? During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds are sparse and the moonlight is bright and clear, and there are a series of folk festivals such as moon viewing, moon worship, eating mooncakes, eating sweet potatoes, lifting lanterns, dancing with grass dragons, tree mid-autumn, building pagodas, and other festive activities.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was popularized in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and fusion between the north and south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places led to the fusion and spread of festivals and customs.

The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first written down in the Han Dynasty literature, which was written between the two Han Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty (Zhou Gongdan was rumored to be the author of the book, which was actually written between the two Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty), which said that the pre-Qin Dynasty had already had "Mid-Autumn Festival night to welcome the cold," "Mid-Autumn Festival to offer a good fur," "Mid-Autumn Festival to offer a good fur. Mid-Autumn Offerings" and "Autumn Equinox Moon Worship". According to the records, in the Han Dynasty, in the mid-autumn or the day of the first autumn, respect for the elderly, old age, give Xiong rough cake activities. Jin also appeared in the Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon of the written records, but not too common, Jin period Mid-Autumn Festival in the northern part of China is not popular.