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Mid-Autumn Festival Introduction:

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August Meeting, chasing the moon festival, playing the moon festival, moon worship festival, the daughter of the festival or the reunion festival, is a popular in many ethnic groups of China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle of the traditional culture and festivals, the time in the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar; because it coincides with the half of the three autumns, it is called.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many Chinese ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese cultural circle, and is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar.

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 major 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 the local Chinese diaspora. 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 batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been practiced since ancient times as a festival of sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and so on, which have been passed down to the present day and are still going on today. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, as a token of longing for one's hometown and relatives, as well as praying for a good harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and known as China's four traditional festivals.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival:

On the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are more sayings. The term mid-autumn, first seen in the "Zhou Li", "Li Ji - Moon Order" on the said: "the month of mid-autumn to raise the aging, the line of surimi porridge diet."

One says it originated in the ancient imperial rituals. The Book of Rites recorded: "The son of heaven spring sunrise, autumn sunset", sunset is the sacrifice of the moon, indicating that as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to sacrifice the moon, worship the moon. Later on, noble officials and literati and scholars also followed suit, and gradually spread to the people.

The second is that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the season of harvest. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is: "the crops are ripe in the fall". Mid-Autumn in August, crops and various fruits are ripening one after another, farmers in order to celebrate the harvest, to express the joy, the "Mid-Autumn" day as a holiday. "Mid-Autumn" is the meaning of the middle of the fall, the lunar calendar in August is the middle of the month of autumn, the 15th is the middle of the month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be the ancients "Autumn News" inherited customs.

There are also historians who point out that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty army on the 15th day of the 8th month of the 13th year of the Daiye era, the Tang Dynasty army, Pei Silence, used the full moon as an idea, successfully invented moon cakes, and widely distributed as military pay, successfully solved the problem of military food due to the absorption of a large number of anti-Suizhou volunteers and the derivation of the army food problem.

The main customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are:

1, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, China since ancient times, there is the custom of enjoying the moon, enjoying the moon and talking about the moon has become a long time talk about the topic. Tracing the origin of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, according to the "Chang'an Playing with the Moon Poem Preface": "Autumn at the time, after the summer first winter; August in the fall, the beginning of the season and the end of the month; the fifteenth night, and the middle of the month. The night of the fifteenth day of the month is the middle of the month. If we look at the heavenly way, the cold and heat are equalized, and if we look at the number of the moon, the toad is round." In other words, August 15 in the middle of August in the fall, so it is said: "Mid-Autumn". Why do people love to enjoy the moon in mid-autumn? There is a poem: "bright moon at all times, what is happy about the Mid-Autumn Festival? Yao Tai Baojian, it is appropriate to hang the highest head of the Jade Palace; released white ho thousands of feet, scattered as a color of the void. Ten thousand elephants come into my eyes, the stars and buckets shun the luster, and the wind and dew help to make it clear and secluded."

2, eat moon cakes

China's urban and rural masses over the Mid-Autumn Festival have the custom of eating moon cakes, as the saying goes: "August 15, the moon is round, Mid-Autumn Moon Cake fragrant and sweet." Mooncake is initially used to worship the moon god's offerings, "mooncake" word, first seen in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Records", at that time, it is just like the diamond flower cake like cake-shaped food. Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival with mooncakes, a symbol of family reunion.

Mooncakes were initially made at home, and Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty recorded the practice of mooncakes in his "Sui Yuan Food List". In modern times, there are workshops specializing in the production of moon cakes, moon cake production more and more fine, the filling is exquisite, beautiful appearance, in the moon cake is also printed on the outside of a variety of exquisite patterns, such as "Chang'e Moon", "Galaxy Night Moon", "Three Pools of the Moon" and so on. To the moon of the round of people's reunion, to the cake of the round of people's life, with the moon cakes to send thoughts of home, missing their loved ones, praying for a good harvest, happiness, have become the world's people's wish, the moon cakes are also used as gifts to send friends and relatives, liaison feelings.

Mid-Autumn Festival Legend :

1, Chang'e to the moon

Anciently, there are ten days in the sky at the same time, sunburned crops withered, the people do not have enough to live on, a hero named Houyi, the strength is boundless, he sympathized with the suffering people, pulled open the bow, a gas shot down more than nine suns, and the last order of the last sun rise and fall on schedule, for the benefit of the people. The last sun was ordered to rise and set on time for the benefit of the people. Hou Yi's wife's name was Chang'e. Hou Yi spent all his time with his wife, except for hunting. A lot of people came to learn from Hou Yi, and the evil-minded Peng Meng also got involved.

One day, Hou Yi went to the Kunlun Mountains to visit his friends, and asked the Queen Mother for a packet of immortality medicine. It was said that by taking this medicine, one could instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi could not leave his wife behind, and temporarily gave the medicine to Chang'e to treasure. Chang'e hid the medicine in a treasure box on her dresser. Three days later, Hou Yi led his disciples on a hunting trip, but Peng Meng, who had a secret agenda, pretended to be sick and did not go out. Soon after Hou Yi left, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the house with a sword in his hand and forced Chang E to hand over the immortality pill. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, and in a moment of crisis, she turned around, opened the treasure box, and took out the Pill of Immortality and swallowed it in one gulp. When Chang'e swallowed the medicine, her body immediately floated away from the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew toward the sky. As Chang'e was attached to her husband, she flew down to the closest to the earth on the moon and became immortal.

In the evening, Hou Yi returned home and his maids cried about what happened during the day. Houyi both shocked and angry, drew the sword to kill the villains, Peng Meng has long escaped, Houyi angry chest thumping, grief, looking up at the night sky calling Chang'e, then he found that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright, and there is a swaying figure like Chang'e. Hou Yi misses his wife, he sent people to Chang'e's favorite garden, set up incense, put on Chang'e usually love to eat honey and fresh fruits, and sacrificed to Chang'e in the Moon Palace. When the people heard the news that Chang'e had run to the moon and become immortal, they set up incense under the moon and prayed to the kind Chang'e for good luck and peace. From then on, the custom of moon worship on Mid-Autumn Day spread among the people.

2, Wu Gang folded laurel

Legend has it that there is a man named Wu Gang in the Moon Palace, is the Han Dynasty, West River people, had followed the immortal cultivation, to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, the immortal relegated him to the Moon Palace, and every day cut down the laurel tree in front of the Moon Palace, to show the punishment. This laurel tree grew luxuriantly and was more than 500 feet high, and every time it was cut down, the place where it was cut would close up again immediately. Li Bai wrote in his poem "Gift to Cui Situ Wen Kunji", "I want to chop down the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for those who are cold".

Mid-Autumn Poetry:

"Looking at the Moon on the Fifteenth Night" (Tang) Wang Jian

The white trees in the middle of the courtyard are full of crows, and the cold dew is silent and wet. Tonight the moon is bright, and I don't know who's home I'm thinking of in autumn.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (Tang) Li Park

The white spirit rises up in the sky in a precious mirror, and there is no sound of immortal music among the clouds.

The colors of autumn are equally divided, and the cloudy streets are a thousand miles bright.

The cunning rabbit falls out of the string, and the evil toad is not born in front of me.

The Crew is going to make a date to join hands and wait for the Milky Way to be completely clear.

Playing with the Moon on the Fifteenth Night of the August Moon (Tang) Liu Yuxi

The sky will be the moon tonight, and it will wash all over the world again.

The summer is over, the sky is clean, and the autumn is clear.

The stars give way to brilliance, and the wind and dew give rise to crystal.

The world of the world can be changed, and it is the Jade Palace.

The Mid-Autumn Moon (Song) Su Shi

The twilight clouds are overflowing with cold, and the silver man is spinning a jade disk without a sound.

This night will not be long, and the bright moon will not be seen next year.