What are the unique traditions of Mid-Autumn Festival?

The unique tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival 1, the tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival: enjoying the moon.

Appreciating the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival activities began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but they did not become a custom. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival centered on appreciating the moon was formed and officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Different from the Tang people, the Song people appreciate the moon more because they feel hurt by things, and often compare human affairs with the lack of rain or shine. Even on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the bright moon can't hide the sadness of Song people. For Song people, there is another form of Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a secular and joyful festival: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the shops sold new wine, your house decorated pavilions, and the people competed for food and played with the moon, and the songs were heard from a distance, and the play continued until dawn." The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty was a sleepless night. The night market is open all night, and there are endless tourists playing with the moon.

2. The tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival: eating moon cakes.

According to Luo Zhong's records, Tang Xizong ate moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, which was very delicious, so he ordered the chef to package moon cakes in HongLing and give them to the new Jinshi. This may be the earliest record of moon cakes we can see. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were called "lotus leaf", "golden flower" and "hibiscus", and their production methods were more exquisite.

3. The tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival: offering sacrifices to the moon.

In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The moon at night is to worship the moon god. Put a big incense table, with moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums, grapes and other sacrifices, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable, and watermelons should be cut into lotus shapes.

Under the moon, put the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family takes turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cakes. If people are laid off in advance, the number of people in the whole family will be counted, including those at home and those from other places. You can't lay off more or less, but the size should be the same.

4. The tradition of Mid-Autumn Festival: lighting lanterns.

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". Rich people can hang lights as high as tens of feet. Families gather under the lamp to enjoy drinking, and ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and glass. It seems that since ancient times, the custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

There are many theories about the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival. The word Mid-Autumn Festival first appeared in Zhou Li. The Book of Rites and the Moon Order said: "The Mid-Autumn Festival moon nourishes aging and follows the porridge diet."

One theory originated from the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors. It is recorded in the Book of Rites that "the sun rises in spring and the moon sets in autumn", and the moon is a sacrifice to the moon, indicating that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, emperors began to offer sacrifices to the moon and Yue Bai.

Second, the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the harvest season. The word "autumn" is interpreted as "autumn when crops are ripe"

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, crops and various fruits are maturing one after another. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, farmers regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival.

The significance of celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival

1, reunion

"When you are in a foreign land, you miss your family more often during festivals." Festivals are promoters of national cohesion and have powerful and mysterious power. "Reunion" is the product of Laozi's "Taoism and Nature", a high embodiment of the philosophical concept of "the unity of man and nature" and a unique cultural value concept of the Chinese nation. Spend a full moon night, that is, when the flesh and blood are reunited.

Step 2 be harmonious

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated and we look forward to a bumper harvest, so we also look forward to harmony. Harmony is the core value pursuit of China traditional culture. The Mid-Autumn Festival brings family reunion, neighborhood harmony, class harmony, community stability, national reunion, family harmony and world harmony.

Step 3 thank you

In its earliest sense, Mid-Autumn Festival is a set of etiquette, which reflects people's reverence for nature at that time, but at a deeper level, it also shows people's understanding of the relationship between people and their attention to their families.

4. Make a wish

Third, this festival can also be a wishing festival. Of course, there are also some utilitarian colors here. Making wishes on holidays, such as career problems, health problems, marriage problems and family problems, is often more effective.