From ancient times to the present, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of drinking feasts and enjoying the moon, what is the symbolism on behalf of?

From ancient times to the present day, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of drinking feasts and enjoying the moon, representing the moral: the metaphor of the Mid-Autumn Festival for the family reunion, happiness and joy, with a good moon. Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times, there is a moon festival, enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes, play lanterns, enjoy osmanthus flowers, drink osmanthus wine and other folk culture. At the end of the day, people slowly combined moonlight appreciation with mooncakes to symbolize the reunion of loved ones and miss them. Worshipping the moon, enjoying the moon, and congratulating the family on reunion are the keys to the general Mid-Autumn Festival customs, and from the viewpoint of daily life in today's society, it still has the practical significance that is in line with the life of the masses. Mooncakes, also known as moon balls, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc., were the tribute to the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient China. The mooncake was first used as an offering to the moon god, and then it was slowly taken as a representation of family reunion.

Mooncakes represent family reunion, and people treat them as a festive food item to offer to the moon and give to friends and relatives. Today, eating mooncakes is an essential part of the Mid-Autumn Festival custom throughout China, and everyone eats mooncakes on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival to express "family reunion".

Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Festival, that is, the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival to watch the full moon, folk Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Festival themed activities, about the origin of the Wei and Jin dynasties, prevalent in the Tang and Song dynasties. Legend has it that in order to keep the elixir from falling into the hands of the bad guys, the fairy swallowed it by mistake and then ascended to the moon, coinciding with the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and her husband, after the game and the people miss her, and on this day to enjoy the moon, eat mooncakes, and look forward to its return. The Mid-Autumn Festival congratulates and looks forward to a good harvest, and therefore also looks forward to harmony. "Harmony is a key value of Chinese culture. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a time for family reunion, neighborhood harmony, class harmony, community stability, family reunion of the Chinese nation, national and family harmony, and world unity. As Su Shi said, "I wish for a long time, thousands of miles *** Canyuanjuan", Zhang Jiuling said, "the bright moon on the water, the end of the world *** this time."

"Being in a foreign land is a foreigner, the legend of Sun Moon Lake. "Family reunion" is the product of my "quiet and inactive" era, is the "unity of man and heaven" philosophy highly reflective of the unique Chinese cultural and artistic values. A good use of the full moon ceremony is the reunion of flesh and blood. The world has been away from the more get together sugar less, the sadness of the drifting sky cliffs and life in the depression has been inevitable, therefore, the pursuit of a perfect family reunion is not only a real life must, or a psychological needs of people.