Mooncake Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is here! The moon is round! The lights are very bright, the surrounding environment is very dark, but there are people everywhere. Laughter has already broken the lonely environment!

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the 15th day of the lunar calendar. It is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China and the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. Also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Reunion Festival, the August Festival, etc., it is a traditional festival of the Han nationality and most ethnic minorities in China, and is also popular in neighboring countries such as North Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Because the autumn is seven, eight, and nine months, August is in the middle, and in the thirty days of August, it is fifteen, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, the night glory is empty, and the folks are more reunited this night, so it is also called the reunion festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient custom of autumn and moon worship in China. "Book of Rites" contains "the emperor of the Spring Day, the autumn eve of the moon. The Asahi is the dynasty, the eve of the moon is the eve." The "Xueyue" here means the meaning of worshipping the moon. When the Han Dynasty was in its infancy, in the Tang Dynasty, the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival to appreciate the moon began to prevail and was designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ouyang Zhan in the "Chang'an Play Moon Poem" cloud: "August in autumn. Season begins in Mengmeng; fifteen in the night, and in the moon. In the heavens, the cold and the summer are all taken from the number of months, then the soul is round So, Mid-Autumn Festival."

Under the influence of this ancient tradition, China has always had such a custom. Every family in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a reunion dinner, so that many relatives and friends are gathered together today. This is an exciting thing. This has brought many people in the field back to the warm home and enjoyed the warmth of the home. Since ancient times, there have been many wanderers who have stayed in their hometowns all the year round. This makes people often use the full moon to describe people's "sorrows and joys", which makes people sad. ! The poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty "has looked up at the moon, bowed his head and thought about his hometown", Du Fu's "showing from the present night, the moon is the hometown of the Ming Dynasty", the Song Dynasty Wang Anshi's "spring breeze and the south bank of the green river, when the moon is still according to me", this verse It is a eternal singer! Many of the wanderers don’t use the moon to express their deep feelings for their hometown, their care and affection for their loved ones! Su Dongpo has many poems written in various places in China. "The small cakes are like chewing moons, and there are crisps and glutinous rice in the middle." Qing dynasty Yang Guangfu wrote: "moon cakes filled with peach filling, ice cream sweet icing sugar cream ". “Yueyue Pavilion” Su Dongpo wrote poems: “The cakes are like chewing moons, and there are crisps and glutinous rice in the middle.” Qing dynasty Yang Guangfu wrote: “moon cakes filled with peach filling, ice cream sweet sucrose cream”. The monument of "Wang Yue Lou". Beijing’s “Yuetan” was built during the Jiajing Period for the Royal Sacrifice. Nowadays, most people are not sitting around the table, "eat a cake to enjoy the moon"!

Moon cake is also a symbol of reunion. Su Dongpo wrote a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing moons, and there are crisps and glutinous rice in the middle." Qing dynasty Yang Guangfu wrote: "moon cakes filled with peach filling, ice cream sweet sucrose cream." It can be seen that the moon cake at that time is already a certain "cake" and "month".

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is also said to be that the people of the time in the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty's tyrannical rule, "kill the boots, destroy the Yuan Dynasty; August 15 family hands together" paper into the moon cake to pass each other! It was overthrown by the people in August 15th. Maybe we are eating moon cakes now to celebrate the joy of victory! It is also said that the Mid-Autumn Festival is the season of harvest, and it is the joy and joy of the farmers to experience the harvest!

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a happy symbol, a symbol of reunion, a symbol of joy, let us celebrate this "Mid-Autumn Festival!" with "meaning"!

Sixth grade: Yao Zhiteng