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Mid-Autumn Festival Customs 30 words_What are the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival?
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Mid-Autumn Festival customs 30 words 3
Mid-Autumn Festival customs 100 words 4
Mid-Autumn Festival and what are the classic customs
Mid-Autumn Festival legend story
Mid-Autumn Festival customs 30 words model 3 Mid-Autumn Festival custom 30 words 1
Moon festival originated from the moon festival, and the folk appreciate the moon! The activity began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but did not become customary. To the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing, playing the moon is quite prevalent, many poets in the famous poems of the moon. By the time of the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Folk Festival was formed, centered on moonlight-viewing activities, and formally designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival Customs 30 Characters Article 2
Mid-Autumn Festival Charms: Peng Yunzhang's "Yuzhou Tu Feng Yin" describes it as follows: "Mid-Autumn Festival Charms: The moon palace charm is painted as a jade rabbit living in a kiln; Mid-Autumn Festival Cakes: The moon palace cakes are made from the shadows of silver toads in the purple mansion. A pair of toad rabbits all over the world, regretting that Chang'e steal medicine years; run into the wide cold can not return, empty labor jade mortar and pestle in the face. "
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Worship crescent moon: popular in the Tang Dynasty whenever the crescent moon is born, women will be in the late-night prayers, hoping that their own youth forever, Shaohua permanent." This can only women to worship, group fan, also known as the moon fan.
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Mid-Autumn Festival Customs 100 Words Sample 4 Mid-Autumn Festival Customs 100 Words Article 1
Swinging, drinking, men and women under the moon to go out in pairs, also known as the "step on the moon (Caiyue, Binjiang Caiyue)," under the moon to step on the moon and sing the song of the Wu Di have to walk on the moon, walk the custom of the Three Bridges, that is, to travel under the light of the moon, walk across the moon, walk across the moon, walk across the bridge. The custom of walking the moon and walking the three bridges is to go out under the moonlight and walk across at least three bridges (see Gu Lu's "Qing Jia Lu Volume 8").
This custom was also practiced in Shanghai (see Jade Squid Sheng's Hai Zuoyou Lu). "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the stores sold new wine, the noble families decorated their platforms and pavilions, and the folk families competed to occupy the restaurants to play with the moon, and the songs and songs could be heard for thousands of miles, and the playfulness went on until dawn" (Tokyo Dreaming Records). Mid-Autumn Night in the Song Dynasty is a sleepless night, the night market is open all night, play the moon tourists, up to the end of the day.
Mid-Autumn Festival customs 100 words article 2
Moon worship: women worship the moon. Young girls worship the moon, may "look like Chang'e, face like the moon". The Moon Worship Pavilion is set up with a large incense burner, mooncakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings, of which mooncakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The whole family or only women worship the moon.
"New Drunken Weng Talk Records" described the custom of moon worship: "the children of people in the city are not rich or poor to twelve or thirteen on their own, all decorated with adult eyes, climbed the stairs or atrium incense to worship the moon, each with a dynasty; men wish to step early toad Palace, climb the immortal laurel. The female would like to look like Chang'e, round like the moon."
Lu Qihong, "Beijing Years of Hua Ji", "Mid-Autumn Festival night, the family set the Moon Palace symbols, symbols 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.
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Looking up at the moon, visible in the middle of some of the black shadow, in our country will be the legend that this is Wu Gang in the felling of Gui. Tang Dynasty, interpreted the myth of Wu Gang cut the laurel, legend has it that the laurel tree in the moon is as high as five hundred feet, this laurel tree is not only tall, but also has a kind of magical self-healing function. There was a man from Xihe surnamed Wu Gang, originally a woodcutter, who was intoxicated with the Tao of Immortality, but always refused to concentrate on his studies, so the Heavenly Emperor was enraged and stayed him in the Moon Palace, where he was ordered to cut down the osmanthus tree, and said, "If you cut down the osmanthus tree, you will be granted the magic of Immortality." But Wu Gang every cut an axe, axe up and the tree trauma immediately healed, day after day, Wu Gang felling cinnamon wish is still not achieved, so Wu Gang in the Moon Palace perennial felling cinnamon, always cut down the tree, and he also keep cutting down.
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Mascot Rabbit Master (Rabbit Jun): In old Beijing, there is a habit of worshiping the Rabbit Master every August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival. Rabbit-shaped toy, wearing human clothes. Or made of clay, or made of noodles. The remaining manuscripts of the Flower King's Pavilion: "Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival, more than mud tumbled rabbit-shaped, clothed and seated as a person, children worship and worship. "
During the Qing Dynasty, the rabbit's function changed from a moon festival to a Mid-Autumn Festival toy for children.
The production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, there are dressed as a military general wearing armor, clad in ji robes, there are also back in the paper flag or umbrella, or sitting or standing. Sitting there are unicorns, tigers and leopards and so on. There are also dressed as a rabbit head person of the vendors, or shaving master, or sewing shoes, selling wontons, tea soup, to name a few." Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the city people of the clever, with the yellow earth rolled into a toad rabbit image to sell, called the rabbit. "
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What are the other classic customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival 1. Eat mooncakes
China's urban and rural masses over the Mid-Autumn Festival have the custom of eating mooncakes, as the saying goes: "August 15, the moon is round, Mid-Autumn mooncakes 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 Record", 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's round omen people's reunion, to the cake of the round omen people's life, with moon cakes to send thoughts of their hometowns, homesickness, praying for a good harvest, happiness, have become the world's people's wish, moon cakes are also used as gifts to send friends and relatives, liaison feelings.
2. Appreciate the moon
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, China since ancient times, there is the custom of enjoying the moon, the "Book of Rites" recorded in the "Autumn sunset moon", that is, to worship the moon god. By the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night is held to welcome the cold and moon sacrifice. A large incense burner was set up and seasonal fruits such as mooncakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes, etc. were placed on the table, among which mooncakes and watermelons were absolutely indispensable. The watermelon is also cut into lotus shapes.
During the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Song Dynasty, the mid-autumn moon festival is even more prevalent, according to the "Tokyo Dreaming Records" records: "Mid-autumn night, the noble family decorative platforms and pavilions, the folk compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon". Every this day, the capital of all the stores, restaurants are to redecorate the facade, the pagoda on the tie silk hanging color, the sale of fresh fruits and refined food, the night market is bustling, the people more than on the platform, some rich families in their own pavilions and pavilions to enjoy the moon, and set up food or arrange a feast, reunion of the children, * * * with the moon and talk about it.
After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Festival customs remain the same, and many places have formed a special custom of burning incense, tree Mid-Autumn Festival, point tower lamps, put sky lanterns, walk the moon, dance fire dragon and so on.
3. Tide watching
In ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival in Zhejiang Province, tide watching can be regarded as another Mid-Autumn event. Mid-autumn tide-watching custom has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty, Mei multiplied the "seven hair" fugue in a fairly detailed account. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching the tide in mid-autumn was even more prevalent. Ming Zhu Tinghuan "Additions to the old story of Wulin" and Song Wu Zimu "Meng Liang Records" also have tide watching records.
4. Burning Lamps
On the night of Mid-Autumn, there is the custom of burning lamps to help the moon. Nowadays, there are still tiles stacked on the tower in the tower of the festival custom of burning lamps. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is the custom of making lantern boats. In recent times, the custom of burning lamps in the Mid-Autumn Festival is more prevalent. Zhou Yunjin and He Xiangfei, "Idle thoughts on the festival", said: "Guangdong, the most prevalent lanterns, each family in the festival ten days before the bamboo strips tied lanterns. The lanterns were made in the shape of fruits, birds, animals, fishes and worms, and the words 'Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival' were painted on colored paper in various colors. Mid-Autumn Festival night lights burning candles with a rope tied to a bamboo pole, erected on the eaves or terrace, or with a small lamp built into a character or various shapes, hanging in the house high, commonly known as 'tree Mid-Autumn Festival' or 'vertical Mid-Autumn Festival'. The lights hung by the rich and noble families, up to several feet high, the family gathered under the lights to drink for fun, the ordinary people are erected a flagpole, two lanterns, but also to take their own fun. City full of lights is like a glazed world." It seems that from ancient times to the Mid-Autumn Festival lighting custom of its scale seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival.
5. Guessing riddles
Mid-Autumn full-moon night in the public **** place hanging many lanterns, people are gathered together, guessing the riddles written on the lanterns, because most of the young men and women love the activities, but also in these activities on the love story, so mid-autumn riddle guessing is also derived from a form of men and women fall in love with each other.
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Mid-Autumn Festival Legendary StoriesMid-Autumn Festival Legendary Stories (I) Chang'e Runs to the Moon
In ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky at the same time, sunburned crops withered, and the people did not have enough to live on, a hero named Houyi, with infinite strength, he sympathized with the suffering people, pulled open the bow of the gods and shot down more than nine suns in one breath and strictly ordered the last one to rise and fall on time, 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.
Mid-Autumn Festival legend story (2) Wu Gang folded the laurel
Wu Gang of the Southern Heavenly Gate and Chang'e in the moon is very good, but he often hangs on to meet with Chang'e, and neglected his duties. When the Jade Emperor found out about this, he punished Wu Gang to go to the moon to cut down a big tree called laurel. If Wu Gang didn't cut down the tree, he couldn't go back to the South Heavenly Gate and couldn't meet with Chang E. He was also punished for his negligence of duty.
Wu Gang chopped, chopped, chopped from winter to summer, a full half a year, see the tree is about to cut all, the Jade Emperor sent crows came to the moon tree, "swish" sound, the Wu Gang hanging in the tree on the shirt to take away. Wu Gang immediately put down his axe and went after the crow. After recovering the clothes, Wu Gang went back to the tree and saw that all the branches and leaves that had been chopped down had come back to the tree. From then on, whenever Wu Gang was about to cut down the tree, the crow would stand on the tree and wail, and Wu Gang would stop the axe and look at it, and the tree would grow back.
Wu Gang cut down the tree more than every day, ten million years have passed, the magical laurel Wu Gang cut down the laurel tree is still the same as the old, vibrant, every time in the mid-autumn, the fragrance of the four overflowing.
Mid-Autumn Festival legend story (3) Xuanzong story
It is said that in the early years of Tianbao a Mid-Autumn Festival night, Xuanzong is in the palace to enjoy the moon, that was invited to the palace by Xuanzong to teach the art of the gods and immortals called Luo Gongyuan masters, came to Xuanzong, said: "Your Majesty and I can go to the sky and the moon palace to a tour of it?" Xuanzong immediately agreed.
So Master Luo took a laurel branch (some say it was a walking stick) and threw it into the air, and the laurel branch turned into a silver-white sky bridge. Luo Gongyuan invited Xuanzong to climb this bridge with him, and after walking for a long time, a magnificent palace suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and Luo Gongyuan told Xuanzong that this was the Moon Palace.
At this moment, hundreds of fairies danced in the wide court and were accompanied by beautiful music. Emperor Xuanzong was instantly attracted and unknowingly went up and asked, "What kind of music is this?"
The fairies replied, "This is the Neishang Yuyi."
Xuanzong was so drunk that he memorized the tune. He memorized the tune by heart, which is exactly the same as "This song should only be found in heaven, where on earth it can be heard a few times!" Later, Emperor Xuanzong recalled the music and song of the moon palace fairy, and composed his own music and dance, which is the famous "Neishang Yuyi Song" in history.
Mid-Autumn Festival legend story (4) moon cake uprising
The end of the Yuan Dynasty, the vast majority of people in the Central Plains can not stand the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty ruling class, all kinds of resistance activities have emerged. Zhu Yuanzhang took this opportunity to unite the various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the imperial court officials and soldiers searched very closely, and it was very difficult to pass the news. Liu Bo Wen, the military advisor, came up with a plan, ordered his subordinates to hide the "August 15 night uprising" note hidden in the cake, and then sent people to send people around the insurrectionary army, notify them in the evening of August 15 at the same time to rise in response. On the day of the uprising, all the rebel armies really responded together, and the rebel army was like a prairie fire. Soon after, Xu Da captured the capital city of Yuan, and the uprising was a great success.
When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he hurriedly sent down an oracle to reward his ministers with "mooncakes", which were used to secretly deliver messages during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, as a festive pastry. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, naturally attaching more importance to the custom of eating mooncakes, every Mid-Autumn Festival, must distribute mooncakes, so that all the generals and soldiers can enjoy with the people. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people.
This many, many stories of the Mid-Autumn Festival passed down over the millennia, many of which have been gradually faded into oblivion, and the atmosphere of the festival has changed its flavor! The happy editor hopes that these beautiful and ancient legends can be passed on eternally!
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