Mid-Autumn Festival Pictorial Fourth Grade Handbook

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Mid-Autumn Festival Introduction

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Festival, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Moon Lady's Festival, Moon Festival, Reunion Festival and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originates from the worship of heavenly phenomena and evolved from the moon sacrifice on the autumn eve in the ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by folk customs such as sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to the present day and are still enduring. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, and stereotyped in the Tang Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of the seasonal customs of autumn, and most of the festival elements it contains have ancient origins. As one of the most important folk rituals of the festival, moon sacrifice has gradually evolved into activities such as moon appreciation and moon glorification. 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, and praying for a good harvest and happiness.

Mid-Autumn Festival Customs

Lighting, Mid-Autumn Festival night, there is the custom of lighting to help the moon. Nowadays, there is still a custom of lighting lamps on towers with tiles stacked on top of them in the area of Hunan and Guangdong. Jiangnan area has the custom of making lamp boats. In recent times, the custom of burning lamps in the Mid-Autumn Festival is even 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 high in the house, 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. The city is full of lights like a glazed world." The scale of the Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival.

Moonlight viewing, the custom originated from the moon festival, the serious sacrifice into a relaxed entertainment. It is said that this night the moon is the closest to the earth, the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so from ancient times to the present day there is the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon. In ancient times, the customs of the north and the south were different, and customs varied from place to place. Written records of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival activities appeared in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but they did not become a habit. To the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing, play the moon is quite popular, many poets in the famous poem there are moon poems.

Mid-Autumn Poetry

The moon hangs bright in the autumn sky, and the luster of the dew is wet. The magpies are not yet settled, and the fireflies are rolling in the curtains.

The white trees in the courtyard are filled with crows, and the osmanthus blossoms are wet with cold dew. Tonight the moon is bright and people are all looking forward to it, I don't know whose home the thoughts of autumn will fall on. I don't know if I'll ever be able to get through this, but I'm sure I'll be able to get through this," he says. The Mid-Autumn Moon

When is the bright moon due? I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace, people have sadness and happiness, the moon has its cycle, this matter is difficult to be complete. But I wish that people will be long-lasting, and that they will be happy for a thousand miles. The color of the moon in front of the hall becomes clearer and clearer, and the cold cicada sounds the dewy grass. The curtains are rolled up and the door is silent, and under the window there is only the old man Chu. Don't be ashamed to be poor in Nandu, there are several people who write poems to the moon. The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival and Ziyou