Mid-Autumn Festival

The long-awaited Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, but do you know the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let me know about the Mid-Autumn Festival with you! Let us have a wonderful and meaningful Mid-Autumn Festival!

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival, Chasing Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is popular among many ethnic groups in China and East Asian countries. The traditional cultural festival is on the 15th day of the lunar calendar. Because it is just half of the autumn, the name is also set in some places to set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

Eating mooncakes in your hands, don't know how to know about mooncakes?

Moon cakes, also known as palace cakes, harvest cakes, round cakes, reunion cakes, etc., when the Tang Dynasty, moon cakes first recorded. "Chinese Customs Dictionary" tells a legend: On August 15th of the year, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan told the chef to make a colorful round cake for everyone to eat to celebrate the victory of his general Li Jingbei, and Li Jingzhe First, hold the round cake to worship the moon, and say "should invite the cake." Since then, eating a round cake on August 15 has become a custom, and then the Tang Ming Emperor Yang Guifei renamed the "Hu cake" to "moon cake." In the Song Dynasty, there were moon cakes of various colors such as golden flowers, hibiscus and lotus leaves. In the Ming Dynasty, the moon cake really became the official food for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it was gradually spread among the people. After the Qing Dynasty, the production of moon cakes was more stressful, and there were new developments and innovations in terms of materials, colors and varieties. With the development of the times, moon cakes gradually became the festival food of the Mid-Autumn Festival and gifts to friends and relatives. The moon cake was originally a offering for the moon festival. After the end of the month, the whole family sat together to share the sacrifices and reward the moon. When eating moon cakes, you should cut the "great reunion" moon cakes that symbolize the full moon into pieces, one per person. For the family members who have not returned, the parents should carefully keep a moon cake belonging to him and wait for them to come back to taste, so the moon cake is also called "reunion cake." Later, people gradually combined the Mid-Autumn Festival and the tasting moon cakes, symbolizing the symbol of family reunion. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, when the moon is empty, family reunion, cakes to enjoy the moon, happy.

Delicious moon cakes as mascots, in addition to symbolizing family reunion and gathering, there are many rich auspicious cultural connotations. In the Mid-Autumn Festival, mooncakes are used to worship the moon and worship the moon. In the old days, there were sayings that "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove". The main purpose of a woman's worship of the moon is: the married person prays for the moon goddess to send the child, and the unmarried person prays for the moon goddess to make her marriage happy and happy. In addition, moon cakes also symbolize the meaning of the harvest. The Mid-Autumn Festival is in the season of harvesting the grain, and the moon cake is also integrated into the "autumn" factor. The moon cake has become a symbol of the harvest. The moon cake is used to celebrate the harvest and hope to bless the next year and get a bigger harvest.

Mid-Autumn Festival makes our life colorful, but do you know the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival? Let us listen to the legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival!

A long time ago, when Datun went hunting in the mountains, he encountered a cockroach under a laurel tree. The two men used laurel as a medium to form a husband and wife.

When the tomb went to the time of the emperor, there were ten suns in the sky, burned the crops, baked the trees, and the people had no food. At the same time, smashing, chiseling, nine infants, strong winds, Feng Yuxi, repairing snakes and other demon ghosts also began to harm the people. So the emperor ordered the scorpion to smash the teeth in the wilderness of the domain, killing the nine infants on the fierce water, defeating the wind in the Qingqiu, shooting off the excess sun in the sky, killing the cockroaches, repairing The snake squatted in Dongting and caught Feng Xixi in Sanlin. The people are happy and support you as the emperor.

Later, Daxie received the undead medicine from the Western Queen Mother and handed it to the custody. After I heard about it, I went to steal, and stealing did not make it worse. In desperation, he swallowed the undead medicine and flew to the sky. Because I couldn't bear to leave Daxie, I stayed in the moon and the cold palace. In the Guanghan Palace, the loneliness was unbearable, so he urged Wu Gang to cut down the laurel tree and let the jade rabbit take the medicine. He wanted to be a medicine for flying, so he would return to the world and reunite with him.

Da Yu heard that after rushing to the moon, he did not want to live. The moon mother was moved by the sincerity of the two, so he was allowed to meet with Dagu under the laurel tree every year on the day of the full moon. It is said that many people in the folks have heard yelling and swearing under the laurel tree. In fact, there is still a lot of knowledge about the Mid-Autumn Festival, let us learn together slowly! There is a pot of wine in the flower, and there is no blind date. Toasting to the moon, the shadow of the three. The month does not dissolve, the followers follow me. Temporary with the moon, the music must be spring. I am singing the moon, I am dancing and chaos.........The sea is bright and the moon is at this time. Lovers blame the night, and they start to love each other... Mid-autumn is the most beautiful...

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