Hand-painted watercolor pictures of Mid-Autumn Festival handwritten newspaper

China is a country with a strong sense of inheriting traditional festivals. Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival with a long history. As early as a long time ago, there was the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Every family looks forward to reunion. On this full moon, it is a wonderful thing for the family to get together to enjoy the moon and chat and eat moon cakes. Similarly, in modern times, people still live this traditional festival. Even very young children know that the Mid-Autumn Festival is on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is a day for family reunion. The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to a legend a long time ago, and it is this legend that makes everyone have such a festival.

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One of the Mid-Autumn Festival legends: WU GANG won the laurel.

There is also a legend about the Mid-Autumn Festival: It is said that osmanthus trees in front of Guanghan Palace on the moon are flourishing, reaching more than 500 feet. There is a man who often cuts down, but every time he finishes cutting, 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 study laurel in the middle of the month, you will pay for it yourself."

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Legend 2 of Mid-Autumn Festival: Zhu Yuanzhang and Moon Cake Uprising

It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty.

At that time, the broad masses of the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and men of the imperial court searched very closely and it was very difficult to pass on the news. Liu Bowen, a military strategist, came up with a plan and ordered his men to hide a note with the words "Uprising on the 15th of August" in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in different places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the 15th of August.

On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together, such as a single spark can start a prairie fire.

Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and quickly sent a message saying that all the soldiers should have fun with the people in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and they should give the "moon cakes" secretly sent at the time of the war as seasonal cakes to the ministers. Since then, the production of "moon cakes" has become more and more elaborate, and there are more and more varieties, such as dishes, which have become good gifts. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating moon cakes spread among the people.

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"The moon is at sea now, and the horizon is at this time." The day of the full moon is also a time for family reunion. Since ancient times, unity, reunion and celebrating the harvest have been the themes of Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival", which allows families to get together, get together and live in harmony, and achieve social harmony, national unity and national unity.

Mid-Autumn Festival is an out-and-out "Moon Festival", "Moon Festival" and "Reunion Day".