About the origin, customs and stories of Mid-Autumn Festival, the simpler the better.

1, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which, like other traditional festivals, developed slowly. The ancient emperors had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. As early as Zhou Li, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" has been recorded. Later, aristocratic scholars followed suit. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they watch and worship the bright and round moon in the sky and place their feelings on it. This custom spread to the people and formed a traditional activity.

2. Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival: Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival is an indispensable custom in all parts of China; ? Appreciating the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures; The internal combustion candles of Mid-Autumn Night Lights are tied to bamboo poles with ropes, hung high on tile eaves or terraces, or hung on the heights of houses in zigzag or various shapes with small lights, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival on trees" or "Mid-Autumn Festival vertically".

3. The story of Mid-Autumn Festival: According to legend, osmanthus trees in front of Guanghan Palace on the moon grow luxuriantly, reaching more than 500 feet. There is a man who often cuts, but after each cut, the cut place closes immediately. For thousands of years, this laurel tree can never be cut down.

It is said that this tree-chopping man named WU GANG, a native of Xihe in Han Dynasty, once went to heaven with the immortal, but when he made a mistake, the immortal banished him to the Moon Palace and did this kind of hard work in vain every day as a punishment. In Li Bai's poems, there is a record that "if you want to be in the middle of the month, you will pay for the cold."

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Introduction of Mid-Autumn Festival famous sentences:

Chang'e

Dynasty: Tang Dynasty Author: Li Shangyin?

The mica screen was dyed red by thick candles, and the Milky Way gradually tilted towards the morning star.

Chang 'e, I must regret eating the elixir, and now I am alone, in the blue sky, singing every night.

The candle shadow is deeply reflected on the mica screen, the galaxy is sinking and the morning star is fading. Chang 'e regrets being lonely and stealing the elixir. Facing the blue sea and blue sky, I miss the world day and night. ?

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