How to spend the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival

How to celebrate the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival

How to celebrate the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, is a festival of reunion. It is also a traditional Chinese festival, and many people regard Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival and Qingming as the most important festivals. Then there are activities for both men and women, young and old, during this day time, here is how to spend the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival!

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Mid-Autumn Festival can be arranged as follows

1, enjoy the lantern

Lanterns were originally a folk crafts, the use of its purpose is to illuminate the doorway of many families will be hanging lanterns. However, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, lanterns also became an artistic product, which emerged during the Han Dynasty and flourished during the Tang Dynasty. Outdoor lantern activities are relatively large in scale, and no matter whether they are dignitaries or ordinary people, everyone will enjoy the lanterns at night.

2, osmanthus

In the Mid-Autumn Festival just when the fragrance of osmanthus, osmanthus in ancient times has been associated with the moon, but also derived from a lot of myths. And osmanthus, as a valuable species, it also has a symbol of celebration and good luck, so many people in folklore will be planted, in the Mid-Autumn Festival this day to enjoy osmanthus, smell the refreshing fragrance, feel the different taste, so as to express the pursuit of a better life.

3, burning tower

In the southern region, the game of burning tower has been passed down for a long time, this activity is generally children involved, usually in the field to pick up tiles, etc., piled up into a round tower, in the moon out of the burning, and so the tiles burned red, and then put some kerosene in which, has been burning to the night, when everyone will go to the spectators! The reason for this activity, legend has it, is to commemorate the anti-French hero Liu Yongfu.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs from

In this festival, people will always be in the night when the moon, this activity as early as the Wei and Jin Dynasty has begun, to the Tang and Song dynasties flourished, after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, every festival when people will be the mooncake, pomelo, etc. placed outside, while enjoying the moon while eating and drinking, looking forward to the future life! Everything goes well, and they also hope that their loved ones will be happy and joyful.

In some places, there is also the custom of "moon sacrifice", hoping that the moon god can make the family happy, and this day, whether it is raining or not, moon sacrifice is an essential process. Of course, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival of reunion, ancient literati would always use "the moon has a clear and sunny, round and short" to express the feelings of trust, in the Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the scale of the appreciation of the moon is even larger.

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First of all, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival was first recorded in the "Records of Rites", "the son of heaven in the spring towards the sun, the moon in the fall," the moon is the moon festival, indicating that as early as in the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperors have begun to sacrifice the moon, worship the moon. Many legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival are related to the moon, such as "Chang'e Runs to the Moon".

Legend has it that Hou Yi, after shooting down nine suns, was loved and honored by the people and married a beautiful woman called Chang E. Many aspirants came to join him. Many people came to learn from Hou Yi, and the evil-minded Peng Meng also got involved. One day Hou Yi met the Queen Mother in the Kunlun Mountains and asked her for a packet of immortality pills. It was said that if you took it, you could immediately ascend to heaven and become immortal. Hou Yi missed his wife and did not take it immediately, but gave it to Chang'e for safekeeping, waiting for the two of them to die before taking it together to become immortal. When the villain Peng Meng saw this, he wanted to steal the immortality pill and become immortal himself. While Hou Yi was out hunting, he broke into Chang'e's room with a sword in his hand. The woman was naturally powerless to protect the medicine, so she took out the immortality pill and swallowed it to become immortal and run to the moon.

How to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival? It is natural to enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes and lanterns. In ancient times, there were no electric lights, but only candlelight, so the moon at the Mid-Autumn Festival was especially full and bright, and people would put some mooncakes and fruits in the courtyard to watch the moon on that day.

The second is to eat moon cakes, in the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty army Pei Silent Pei as the idea of the full moon, the successful invention of moon cakes, and widely distributed as military pay, successfully solved the problem of military food due to the large number of absorption of anti-Suizhou volunteers and derivatives of the army. So this military food has become the most popular dessert for people to enjoy the moon.

The third item needs special attention, in the Mid-Autumn Festival to play lanterns is a custom, although now less and less, gradually become and the Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival to see the same lanterns. However, in some places in the south, still retains the custom of the day the children carry flower lanterns on the street, due to the inside is to light a candle, and the outside is paper wrapped pulp so need to pay special attention. Every year there are children playing with lanterns caused by fire news, although the country does not promote, but this belongs to the custom is still playing. Modern children seldom contact with traditional culture, but it does not mean that they do not dare to interest. With the development of the economy, the human touch is getting thinner and thinner, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few traditional festivals that the Chinese people love the most, and I hope it can be passed on.

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Eat moon cakes

Luozhong Jixing Wen said, Tang Xi Zong in the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes, the taste of the extremely beautiful, then ordered the Imperial Household Catering red damask wrapped in moon cakes rewarded to the new subjects, which is the earliest we can see! This is the earliest record we can see about moon cakes. To the Song Dynasty, moon cakes have "lotus leaf", "hibiscus" and other elegant name, its production method is also more exquisite. After the Song Dynasty, mooncakes were not only made with taste in mind, but also with designs on the surface related to the legend of the Moon Palace. Patterns on the surface of the cake, initially painted on paper and then pasted on the surface of the cake, and then simply use the surface mold pressed on top of the moon cake.

After the work, the time with the family is much less, cherish every gathering, do not play the phone and computer, just a good day with the family.

Friends shopping: I here in the Mid-Autumn Festival is more lively, riding a bicycle, facing the wind, look at each household carefully prepared things, it is really quite good. The city friends can go shopping pedestrian street, there will be some discount promotions.

Eat mooncakes and enjoy the moon: find an open-air place, eat mooncakes and chat with friends to enjoy the moon, talk about their recent situation, funny things can be.