Essay on Mid-Autumn Festival Customs in Yongchang, Jinchang, China

The Mid-Autumn Festival is here! The moon is full! Home lights are bright, the surroundings are very dark, but there are people everywhere． The sound of laughter has long broken the lonely environment!

Mid-Autumn Festival is the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, is China's traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, is also China's second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. It is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival, August Festival, etc. It is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese and most of the ethnic minorities in China, and is also popular in neighboring countries such as North Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Because of the fall of the seven, eight, nine months (refers to the lunar calendar), August in the middle, and the thirty days of August, but also the fifteenth in the middle, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. And so the night of the moon in the sky, folk more in this night family reunion, so it is also known as the reunion festival. Mid-Autumn Festival originated in China's ancient autumn rituals, moon worship custom. The Book of Rites" contains "the Son of Heaven spring sunrise, autumn eve moon. Morning to the sun, evening moon to the evening." Here the "moon" is to worship the meaning of the moon. The two Han Dynasty has already taken shape, Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival custom began to prevail, and designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ouyang Zhan in the "Chang'an play moon poem preface" cloud: "August in the fall. The end of the season; fifteen nights, and the moon in the clouds. In the heavenly way, the cold and heat are even, taking the number of the moon, the toad soul round, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival."

In this ancient tradition under the influence of our country has always had such a custom every Mid-Autumn Festival families have a reunion dinner, so that many friends and relatives in today and gathered together, this is a thing how exciting. This makes many people in the field and returned to the warmth of home, enjoy the warmth of home since ancient times, how many people living in other parts of the country travelers are always outside this makes people commonly used to describe people's "sadness and happiness" which makes how many people heartbreaking! Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's "Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think of your hometown", Du Fu's "The dew is white from tonight, the moon is the hometown bright", Song Dynasty Wang Anshi's "The spring breeze is green again on the banks of the south of the Yangtze River, when will the bright moon shine on me again? When will the bright moon shine on my return?" and other poems, which have been sung throughout the ages! Many travelers do not use the moon to express their deep feelings for their hometowns, care for their loved ones and miss them! All over China, there are still many "moon worship altar" Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "small cakes such as chewing the moon, there are crispy and syrup", Yang Guangfu in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "moon cakes full of peach filling, ice cream sweet laying cane sugar frosting! The mooncake is filled with peach and meat filling, and the ice-cream is sweetened with sugar cream." In the "Moon Worship Pavilion", Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and syrupy ingredients", and Yang Guangfu of the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Moon cakes are filled with peaches and meat, and ice-cream is sweetened with cane sugar frosting". Monuments of "Moon Watch Tower". The "Altar of the Moon" in Beijing was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty for the royal moon festival. Now is not also most part of the people sitting around the table "eat cake and enjoy the moon"!