Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in East Asia, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. The Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival for China people, but also a traditional festival in Japan, Viet Nam, South Korea and North Korea under the influence of China culture. According to the China lunar calendar, August is the second month of autumn, which was called Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times. Therefore, it is called Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as autumn season, August Festival, August Half Day, Moon Festival and Moon Festival, because the moon is complete on this day, it symbolizes reunion and is also known as the Reunion Festival. Directory * 1 Origin o 1. 1 Goddess of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon * 2 Festival customs * 3 Mid-Autumn Festival in Taiwan Province Province * 4 Mid-Autumn Festival in Korea * 5 Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam * 6 Mid-Autumn Festival in Japan * 7 Mid-Autumn Festival Poems * 8 References * 9 See * 10 External link for the origin of the word Mid-Autumn Festival, which was first seen in Zhou Li and 0. But it didn't say which day in August. After the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. According to legend, after Emperor Taizong sleepwalked in the Moon Palace and got colorful feather clothes, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival became popular among the people. It is generally believed that the Mid-Autumn Festival began to prevail in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become a major traditional festival in China. In the legend of Mid-Autumn Festival, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon's story is the most famous. There are many versions of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon and the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon circulating among the people. The following is one of them: According to legend, in ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky. Hou Yi, a hero with infinite strength, shot down nine suns. The tenth sun will rise and set on time to benefit the people. Later, Hou Yi married Chang 'e again. One day, Hou Yi got a pack of elixirs. As long as he takes the elixir, he can live forever and ascend to heaven. Chang 'e swallowed all the elixirs, then became a fairy and flew to the moon palace. Festival custom * enjoy the moon. * Eat moon cakes. O There is also the custom of eating greasy cakes in Xiamen, Fujian. * Play with lanterns. * Enjoy sweet-scented osmanthus and eat all kinds of food made of sweet-scented osmanthus, especially cakes and sweets. * In Hong Kong, besides moon cakes, carambola and taro are common foods. Because water chestnut is hard to buy and rare now. * Sacrificing the moon is to worship the Empress Taiyin. * In Taiwan Province Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue has been popular since1990s, and there are many sayings. One is the influence of advertisers, and the other is the hunger when watching the moon at night, so barbecue became popular. * In addition, it is the custom in some places to send pig cakes or longevity noodles to the elderly or younger generations. Giving gifts to relatives and friends is also a custom for Koreans to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. So they also call Mid-Autumn Festival "Thanksgiving Day for Koreans". Taiwan Province Mid-Autumn Festival Wikinews related reports: Mid-Autumn Festival spoiled moon cakes become new favorites. In Taiwan Province Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is an important folk festival, and the whole country has a one-day holiday. Up to now, ordinary people in Taiwan Province Province still have the habit of enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes and grapefruit. 1In the mid-1980s, Taiwan Province Province began to develop the habit of barbecue in the Mid-Autumn Festival. This habit is believed to be in this era, when Taiwan Province's economy took off and its life was westernized, which affected the traditional folk customs. Strictly speaking, the Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue in Taiwan Province Province, a new festival folk custom, should be an extension of the westernized barbecue habit. In addition, at the same time, two well-known barbecue sauce in Taiwan Province Province carried out advertising campaigns to further stir up the Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue atmosphere. In recent years, from south to north in Taiwan Province Province, even urban residents or rural people living in apartments or buildings will choose parks, roadsides, beaches or their own balconies and roofs to hold barbecue activities in the Mid-Autumn Festival. South Korea's Mid-Autumn Festival Koreans write "Autumn Festival" as Thanksgiving in English, also called Thanksgiving, because the Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival in South Korea, and there will be a three-day break. In the past, when the traffic was underdeveloped, people would use this time to return home to visit relatives. Nowadays, before every autumn night, major Korean companies will cut prices to attract people to shop and give gifts to each other. Koreans eat muffins in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival in Vietnam Vietnamese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar, which is called Tt Mid-Autumn Festival. "Festival" is a whisper, and "Mid-Autumn Festival" is a Sino-Vietnamese sound. Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival for Vietnamese children. That night, the children heard a legend about A Gui. Vietnamese children have to travel and play with carp lanterns on Mid-Autumn Festival night, which also indicates the meaning of "jumping the dragon gate" when they grow up. Japan's Mid-Autumn Festival The traditional Japanese Mid-Autumn Festival is called Fifteen Nights, also known as Mid-Autumn Moon, Folding Moon and Chestnut Moon. However, unlike China people who eat moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Japanese people eat zongzi while enjoying the moon, which is called "Moon-watching Zongzi". Because this period is the harvest season of various crops, in order to express gratitude to nature, the Japanese will hold various celebrations. Japanese people will also enjoy the moon, which is called "See you on the Moon". jiaozi (See you on the Moon, See you on the Moon, See you on the Moon, See you on the Moon) and Miscanthus (See you on the Moon) will be displayed in the house. The origin and legend of Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history. Like other traditional festivals, it developed slowly. The ancient emperors had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. As early as Zhou Li, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" has been recorded. Later, aristocratic scholars followed suit. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, they watch and worship the bright and round moon in the sky to express their feelings. This custom spread to the people and formed a traditional activity. Until the Tang Dynasty, people paid more attention to this custom of offering sacrifices to the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, which was very popular in the Song Dynasty. The legend of Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich, and fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting Guangxi and Jade Rabbit smashing medicine are widely circulated. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, one of the legends of Mid-Autumn Festival, said that in ancient times, there were ten days in the sky at the same time, which scorched crops and made the people miserable. A hero named Hou Yi has infinite power. He sympathized with the suffering people, climbed to the top of Kunlun Mountain, gave full play to his divine power, opened his bow, shot down more than nine suns in one breath, and ordered the last one to rise and fall on time for the benefit of the people. Therefore, Hou Yi suffered from Shu Ren's ignorance of the spring barrel and the screen: the staff dipped in the glaze, and the yellow scorpion embedded in the cangue. Br> Many people with lofty ideals came here to study as teachers, and Meng Peng, who had ulterior motives, joined in. One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek truth. He happened to meet the Queen Mother passing by and asked her for a bag of elixir. It is said that taking this medicine can instantly ascend to heaven and become immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang 'e. Chang 'e hid the medicine in the dresser's treasure chest, but the villain Meng Peng saw it. He wants to steal the elixir to make himself immortal. Three days later, Hou Yi led his entourage out hunting, while Meng Peng with ulterior motives pretended to be ill. Shortly after Hou Yi led the crowd to leave, Meng Peng broke into the backyard of the back room with a sword in his hand, threatening Chang 'e to hand over the elixir. Chang 'e knew that she was no match for Meng Peng. In times of crisis, she made a decisive decision, turned around and opened the treasure chest, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang 'e swallowed the medicine and immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window and flew into the sky. Because Chang 'e was worried about her husband, she flew to the nearest moon and became a fairy. In the evening, when Hou Yi came home, the maids cried and told what happened during the day. Hou Yi was surprised and angry, and drew his sword to kill the villain. Meng Peng escaped early. Angry and heartbroken, Hou Yi looked up at the night sky and shouted the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that today's moon is exceptionally bright and bright. There is a swaying figure resembling Chang 'e. He chased the moon desperately, but he chased it three times, the moon retreated three times, he retreated three times, and the moon advanced three times. He couldn't catch up anyway. Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send someone to Chang 'e's favorite back garden, put on a table sweetmeats, put on her favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offer a sacrifice to Chang 'e who was attached to him at the Moon Palace. After hearing the news that the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon became an immortal, people set up an incense table under the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the kind Chang 'e. Since then, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai has spread among the people. The second legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival-Wu Gang Zhegui has another legend about the Mid-Autumn Festival: It is said that the osmanthus tree in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon is flourishing, with a height of more than 500 feet. A person below often cuts it down, but after each cut, the cut place is closed immediately. For thousands of years, this laurel tree can never be cut down. It is said that this tree-chopping man named WU GANG, a native of Xihe in Han Dynasty, once went to heaven with the immortal, but when he made a mistake, the immortal banished him to the Moon Palace and did this kind of hard work in vain every day as a punishment. In Li Bai's poems, there is a record that "if you want to be in the middle of the month, you will pay for the cold." The third legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival-Zhu Yuanzhang and the Moon Cake Uprising It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the broad masses of the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and men of the imperial court searched very closely and it was very difficult to pass on the news. Liu Bowen, a military strategist, came up with a plan and ordered his men to hide a note with the words "Uprising on the 15th of August" in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in different places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the 15th of August. On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together, such as a single spark can start a prairie fire. Soon, Xu Da captured the Yuan Dynasty and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and quickly sent a message saying that all the soldiers should have fun with the people in the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and they should give the "moon cakes" secretly sent at the time of the war as seasonal cakes to the ministers. Since then, the production of "moon cakes" has become more and more elaborate, and there are more and more varieties, such as dishes, which have also become good gifts. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the custom of eating moon cakes spread among the people.