Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone must eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon. Do you know why? Let me tell you!

Mid-Autumn Festival Chinese traditional festival is the 15th lunar month of the lunar calendar. August is the second month of autumn. It was called Zhongqiu in ancient times. Because it is in the middle of autumn and in August, it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is also called the Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Half, Moon Festival and Month. Festival, and because this day the moon is full, symbolizes reunion, also known as reunion.

The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in "Zhou Li". According to the ancient Chinese calendar, the 15th day of the lunar calendar, in the middle of August in the fall of the year, it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". There are four seasons in a year, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. The second month of Sanqiu is called Zhongqiu, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Zhongqiu". By the time of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were records of "the singularity of the poetry of the Shangshang Book, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Weijiang River." It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed holiday. "Tang Shu Tai Zong Ji" records "August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival". The prevalence of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty. By the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become the same as the New Year's Day and became one of the main festivals in China. This is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.

According to the calendar of China, the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, the second month of autumn, called "Zhongqiu", and August 15th is in "Zhongqiu", so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". There are many other names for the Mid-Autumn Festival: because the festival is on August 15th, it is called "August Festival" and "August and a half". Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all around the "month", it is also known as the "Monthly Festival". "Moon eve"; the Mid-Autumn Festival moon is full, symbolizing reunion, and thus called "Reunion Festival". In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as the "Terminal Moon." The record of the "Reunion Festival" was first seen in the Ming Dynasty. "West Lake Tour Shimao" said: "August 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the folks send the moon cakes and take the meaning of reunion." "The Emperor Jingjing Scenery" also said: "August 15th Festival, the cake will be round, the melons will be wrong, the petals are carved like lotus....There are women who are returning to the house, and will return to the husband's house. Section.

With the continuous development of the society, the ancients endowed the moon with many legends, from the mid-month to the jade rabbit medicine, from Wu Ganggui to the rushing moon, the rich imagination for the moon palace world painted a fascinating scene. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the people of Mok Sao have smashed the moon and the mid-month, and they became an excellent moment to express their feelings during the August 15th round. During the Taizong Period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the official officially decided that the August 15th was the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was intended to be in the middle of the Sanqiu Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival night, the moonlight is empty, the Qinghui is full of the earth, people regard the full moon as a symbol of reunion, and the August 15th is a day of reunion of relatives. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Reunion Festival".

When I was asleep, I looked out the window and remembered a poem: the moonlight in front of the bed, the suspected frost on the ground, the head looked at the moon, and looked down on my hometown. This poem is to miss the family.

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