Short knowledge of the Mid-Autumn Festival

Short knowledge about the Mid-Autumn Festival

Short knowledge about the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, contains a lot of knowledge of the festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be a good picture. The following is a short knowledge about the Mid-Autumn Festival!

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The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, is China's traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, is also China's second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. Also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival, August Festival, etc., is the traditional festival of the Han Chinese and most of the ethnic minorities in China, but also popular in neighboring countries such as North Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Because of the fall of the seven, eight, nine months (refers to the lunar calendar), August in the middle, and thirty days in August, but also the fifteenth in the middle, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. And this night, the moon in the sky, folk more in this night family reunion, so also known as the reunion festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in China's ancient autumn rituals, moon worship custom. The Book of Rites contains "the Son of Heaven spring sunrise, autumn eve moon. The sun in the morning, the moon in the evening." Here the "moon" is to worship the meaning of the moon. The two Han Dynasty has taken shape, Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival custom began to prevail, and designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ouyang Zhan (785 AD - about 827 years) in the "Chang'an play moon poem preface" cloud: "August in the fall. The season begins and ends; the fifteenth day of the month is at night, and the moon is in the clouds. In the light of the heavenly way, the cold and heat are even, and in the number of the moon, the toad soul is round, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Mid-Autumn night, the moon is bright, the ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion, therefore, also known as the 15th of August for the "reunion festival". Throughout history, people often use the "full moon", "moon" to describe the "sadness and happiness", living away from home, but also to the moon to send deep feelings. In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai said, "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, and lower your head to think of your hometown", Du Fu said, "The dew is white from tonight, and the moon is bright in your hometown", and in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi said, "The spring breeze is greening up again on the banks of the south of the river, and when will the bright moon shine on me again? The moon is bright in the hometown", and Wang Anshi's "When will the bright moon shine on my back?

The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as one of the three traditional festivals in China, along with the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to the myths and legends such as "Chang'e Runs to the Moon", "Wu Gang Loves Gui" and "Jade Rabbit Pounds Medicine". Therefore, the folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are mostly related to the moon. Moon worship, worship the moon, eat reunion moon cakes, etc., all originated from this. Ancient emperors had the social system of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in autumn, and folk families also had the wind of sacrificing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later on, appreciating the moon was more important than sacrificing the moon, and the serious sacrifices were turned into relaxing entertainment. Mid-Autumn Moon Festival custom in the Tang Dynasty flourished, many poets in the famous poem there are moon poems, Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty court and folk moon worship and moon worship activities on a larger scale. Many monuments of "moon worship altar", "moon worship pavilion" and "moon watch tower" remain in different parts of China. Beijing's "Altar of the Moon" is the Ming Jiajing years for the royal moon festival built. Whenever the moon rises in the Mid-Autumn Festival, set up a case in the open air, mooncakes, pomegranates, jujube and other fruits and vegetables for the table, after the moon worship, the whole family sat around the table, eating and talking, *** enjoy the moon. Now, the moon worship activities have been replaced by a large-scale, colorful mass moon viewing fun activities.

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Eating moon cakes is another custom of the festival, moon cakes symbolize reunion. The production of mooncakes has become more and more elaborate since the Tang Dynasty. Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "small cakes such as chewing the moon, there are crispy and syrup", the Qing Dynasty Yang Guangfu wrote: "moon cakes full of peach filling, ice cream sweet laying cane sugar frosting". It seems that the moon cake and now has been quite similar.

Many people usually say that the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the story of Chang'e running to the moon. According to the history books, "In the past, Chang'e took the medicine of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, and then ran to the moon as the moon spirit." The price Chang'e paid for this act was to be punished with hard labor and not be able to return to earth for the rest of her life. Li Bai was very sad about this and wrote the following poem: "The white rabbit pounds medicine in the fall and then in the spring, who is the neighbor of the female Chang'e who lives alone?" Although Chang'e herself felt that the moon palace is good, but also can not withstand loneliness, in the 15th of August every year when the moon is full and the night is clear, return to the earth to reunite with her husband, but in the morning before the moon must return to the moon palace. Whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival comes around, people in the future generations would like to go to the moon and get together with Chang'e, and they also hope that Chang'e will come down to the earth to have a glimpse of her face. Therefore, many people in the burning incense to worship the moon, praying for "men wishing to early step toad palace, high climb Xian Gui ...... women wish to look like Chang'e, round as the white moon." Year after year, people celebrate this day as a holiday.

Some people believe that the Mid-Autumn Festival was started by Emperor Ming Huang of the Tang Dynasty to enjoy the moon. Tang Dynasty, "Kaiyuan Legacy" book records: Mid-Autumn Festival night, Tang Ming Huang and Yang Guifei play under the moon, swim to the rise, the two logged on to the moon palace, Tang Ming Huang also learned in the moon palace half of the "Nishang Yuyi song", and later supplemented the integrity of the heirloom work. Tang Ming Huang can not forget this trip to the Moon Palace, every year to this moment, necessary to enjoy the moon. Hundreds of people also come to follow suit, when the moon is full to get together and enjoy the beauty of the world. Over time, it has become a tradition that has been passed down.

And it has been suggested that the Mid-Autumn Festival was originally the anniversary of an uprising in the reign of the Yuan Dynasty. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the people could not stand the rule of the government, in the mid-autumn season, the written "kill the Tartars, the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty; August 15, every family do it" note hidden in the chrome good small round cake to pass each other. On the night of August 15, every family did the same thing and destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Later, every Mid-Autumn Festival, we eat moon cakes to commemorate this historic victory.

It has also been suggested that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the season of harvest. The explanation of the word "Autumn" is: "Crops are ripe in the fall". In the middle of August, crops and fruits ripened one after another, and farmers celebrated the harvest and expressed their joy, so they took the day of "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a holiday. "Mid-Autumn" is the meaning of the middle of the fall, the lunar calendar in August is the middle of the fall month, the 15th is the middle of the month day.

The word "mid-autumn" appeared in the Zhou Li, but it refers not to the Mid-Autumn Festival, but to the second month of autumn. Han Dynasty, there is the "Autumn Festival", the time is in the day of Autumn, not August 15, the Tang Dynasty class book in the four times twelve seasonal records, there is no Mid-Autumn Festival, but the Tang poetry has appeared in the "Mid-Autumn Moon". "The moon is full in the mid-autumn of August, and I am sending you to the Mulan boat" (Wei Zhuang, "Sending Li Xiucai back to Jingxi"). The first clear record of the Mid-Autumn Festival was made by Wu Zicheng of the Southern Song Dynasty, who said in his book "Mengliang Lu": "The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on August 15, the day when the three autumns are in the middle of each other, so it is called 'Mid-Autumn Festival'. This night the moon is twice as bright as usual, and is also called 'Moon Festival'." The book also describes the moonlight and night market in Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou), the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

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Symbolism of the Mid-Autumn Festival

First of all, it is a celebration of reunion, both ancient and modern, as long as people are able to return home, they can not far from the thousands of miles to come back, and get together with their family and friends, which is a great help for the development of the tradition of honoring the old and respecting the elderly. In fact, it is the time aspect. As the Mid-Autumn Festival customs are close to the needs of the people's life, people then concentrate all the autumn festivals and customs into the Mid-Autumn Festival, making it one of the great festivals for celebrating and appreciating the four seasons. Moon worship, moon viewing and reunion are the core of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival customs, and from the perspective of contemporary social life, it still has the practical significance of meeting the needs of people's lives.

What traditional food should be eaten on the Mid-Autumn Festival

1, osmanthus cake

Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when osmanthus is fragrant. Many people have the custom of eating osmanthus cake during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Osmanthus cake is a very tasty food with the unique fragrance of osmanthus, which is very popular.

2, mooncakes

Mooncakes are also one of the traditional snacks of the Mid-Autumn Festival, which can be said to have become the representative of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, families will prepare many mooncakes for their friends and relatives. There are very many kinds of mooncakes, and all people can choose their favorite flavor to eat. Mooncakes are usually round and can be eaten by the whole family, which represents unity and harmony and has a good meaning.

3, snails

In many places in Guangdong, the Mid-Autumn Festival will also have the habit of eating snails. Before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the meat of the snail is fat, excellent taste, and the snail is also rich in nutrients, which is very good for the human body.

4, hairy crabs

This is the custom of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the "crab paste fat, rice flowers" season. Although the price of hairy crabs at this time is very expensive, but it can not stop people from loving it.

5, osmanthus wine

Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people look up at the moon in the laurel, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrate the family sweet, get together, has become a festival of a kind of beauty to enjoy. Osmanthus is not only an ornamental plant, there is also the value of food, our country with osmanthus wine has a long history, osmanthus wine is also a very popular wine, there are many girls like to drink.

6, taro

In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, taro is pronounced similar to the "luck". So the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat taro, not only just enjoy the mouth also expressed the hope that the good luck. Taro is a kind of coarse grain, very good for human body.