A Wisdom of Love Sent to the Moon (Original by Yin Yueh)

"Covering mo round bright like the previous degree, I don't know who continues the wide cold tour." White moonlight through the window, auspicious sprinkled on the windowsill; Mid-Autumn Day, twice the thought, the fragrance of wine strong love rhyme long.

? From ancient times to the present, the moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival is by no means as simple as "having a moon", and "Mid-Autumn Festival" itself is a combination of multiple meanings. According to historical records, the word "mid-autumn" first appeared in the "Zhou Li" book, to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there are "Oracle Shangshu town cattle confusion, mid-autumn eve and around the micro-suits red" records. At the time of Mid-Autumn Festival, the fullness of the moon symbolized the reunion of people, sending love, remembering loved ones, praying for a good harvest and expressing happiness, and it became a commonly used imagery in poems and writings by the literati. For example, the nostalgia of "raising one's head to look at the bright moon, thinking of one's hometown", the beautiful vision of "wishing for a long time, a thousand miles of **** Canyuan Juan", and the ambitious sentiment of "remembering the Mid-Autumn Dan Gui Cong, flowers in the cup, the moon in the cup! "The ambition of the feelings, are inseparable from the" moon "of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

? Must be in the Mid-Autumn Festival night, bright and empty quiet night, the birth of the Mid-Autumn Festival and the extension of the circulation is unbreakable will be formed by the Chinese nation **** have a festival. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival or Moon Festival, when the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, because it is exactly half of the three autumns, so the name "Mid-Autumn Festival".

? Mid-Autumn Festival really formed a national festival is in the Tang Dynasty. Upon examination, every Mid-Autumn Festival night should be held to welcome the cold and moon festival, set up a large incense case, put on the offerings, moon cakes are never missing. Legend has it that on the night of August 15 of a certain year, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong sacrificed the moon in the palace, accompanied by a Taoist priest for the spell, will be in the hands of the walking stick into the air as a silver bridge, step into the Moon Palace. Just see the gate tower plaque on the book "Guanghan Qingxu House", the door of the tall osmanthus tree under the white rabbit is pounding medicine, the palace Chang'e nymphs in the melodious music accompaniment, dancing. After Emperor Xuanzong returned from the Moon Palace, he ordered someone to organize the dance music he had written down and named it "Neishang Yuyi Song". The reason why the Moon Palace is called "Guanghan Palace" is also related to this legend.

? The Mid-Autumn Festival flourished in the Song Dynasty. Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "A small cake is like chewing the moon, in which there is pastry and syrup. Silently tasting its flavor, lovesickness tears staining the scarf." Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty was prosperous, but more often than not, it was "The twilight clouds are overflowing with cold, and the silver man is turning the jade disk without sound. This life this night is not long good, where to see the bright moon next year," the sentimental, is "when the bright moon, the wine ask the sky," the heroic.

? To the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become one of the important festivals in China. Whenever the night falls on the Forbidden City, the sky is clear, the moon rises in the sky. Draped in the moon's clear light, the Qing emperors led their concubines to worship the moon god, enjoy the moon and drink wine. Bathed in the cool moonlight, everyone felt refreshed, and perhaps a touch of sadness that they could not reunite with their families.

? Much of the way it is inherited today is by identifying with and constructing its enduring customs that have been passed down to this day.

? Eating mooncakes is the most important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn night, the bright moonlight outside the window, the family ate a reunion dinner and tasted mooncakes. So how did eating mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Day come about? According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang led the people to rebel against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, and agreed to revolt on the day of August 15, to give each other mooncakes to send the message of the note sandwiched between the mooncakes. The custom of eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival then spread among the people. "The moon is full on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, and the mooncakes are fragrant and sweet." This sentence is the best illustration of the deep love of the urban and rural people for the Mid-Autumn Mooncake.

? The Mid-Autumn Festival also has the custom of drinking osmanthus wine. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people look up at the bright moon, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, think of Wu Gang cutting osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, family reunion, get together, sweet, has become a kind of enjoyment of the festival. Osmanthus is not only ornamental, but also has food value. Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs", there are "aid steed bucket Ruizhi cinnamon pulp", "Dien Gui Ruizhi pepper pulp".

? China's ancient Hubei and Guangdong area, there is a tile stacked tower on the tower of the festival custom of burning lamps. The book of Hunan-Guangzhou Zhishu has recorded, "Yongzhou Province. Mid-autumn night, the family ritual moon. Children pick up rubble for the pagoda at the door, there are high to more than ten feet, to also scale crepe can be viewed, burning lamps set up for the play. Hundreds of people erected a flagpole, two lanterns, family members gathered under the lights, drinking for fun. City full of lights to light up the road ahead. Can be seen from ancient times to the present mid-autumn burning custom of its scale.

? Every mid-autumn night, look up at the sky, watch a round moon, smooth ten thousand kinds of feelings, can not help; Every mid-autumn night, climbed the building to look away, look at a city lights, wai thousand strands of flavor, from unforgettable. The moon is thick, said a "people have sadness and happiness, the moon has the shade of the moon is difficult to lack", see that "mica screen candle shadow deep, the Yangtze River gradually falling dawn star sinking", look to "twilight clouds collect all overflow of the cold, the silver man soundless turn the disk of jade! "But the question is: "Tonight the moon is bright, I don't know who's home is in the fall!"

? In other words, the Mid-Autumn Festival, a strand of lovesickness; a round of bright moon, a song of broken hearts.

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