The Mid-Autumn Festival is here! The moon is round! The lights in every house are bright and the surrounding environment is very dark, but there are people everywhere. Laughter has already broken the lonely environment!
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. It is my country’s traditional Mid-Autumn Festival and the second largest traditional festival in my country after the Spring Festival. Also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival, August Festival, etc., it is a traditional festival for the Han people and most ethnic minorities in my country. It is also popular in neighboring countries such as North Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Because among the three months of July, August, and September in autumn (referring to the lunar calendar), August is in the middle, and among the thirty days in August, fifteenth is in the middle, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. And because of this night when the moon is in the sky, many people reunite with their families on this night, so it is also called the Reunion Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the custom of autumn sacrifice and moon worship in ancient my country. "Book of Rites" contains: "The emperor faces the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The sun is in the morning and the moon is in the evening." The "Xiyue" here means worshiping the moon. It took shape in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, the custom of admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival became popular and was designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ouyang Zhan said in the "Preface to the Poems of Wan Yue in Chang'an": "The eighth month is in autumn. The season begins and ends in Meng; the fifteenth is in the night, and the moon is in the clouds. According to the way of heaven, the cold and heat will be equal; if it is based on the number of months, the soul of the toad will be round. , so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”
Under the influence of this ancient tradition, every household in our country has a reunion dinner every Mid-Autumn Festival, which brings many relatives and friends together again today. What an exciting thing. This has allowed many people in other places to return to their warm homes and enjoy the warmth of home. Since ancient times, how many wanderers have been away from home all year round. This makes people often use the full moon and the waning moon to describe people's "joys and sorrows". This has made many people sad. ! Poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty wrote "Looking up at the bright moon, bowing his head thinking about his hometown", Du Fu's "The dew is white tonight, the moon is bright in my hometown", Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote "The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river, when will the bright moon shine on me again" and other poems, This is an eternal song! Don’t many tourists use the moon to express their deep feelings for their hometown, care and longing for their relatives? There are many "Moon Worship Altars" remaining in various parts of our country. Su Dongpo wrote in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and sweet fillings in the middle." Yang Guangfu of the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Moon cakes are filled with peach meat fillings, and ice cream is sweet with cane sugar frosting." . "Moon Worship Pavilion" Su Dongpo wrote in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crisp and sweet fillings in the middle." Yang Guangfu in the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Moon cakes are full of peach meat fillings, and ice cream is sweet with cane sugar frosting." The historic site of "Wangyue Tower". The "Altar of the Moon" in Beijing was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty for the royal family to worship the moon. Nowadays, aren’t most people sitting around the table “eating cakes and admiring the moon”?
Moon cakes are also a symbol of reunion. Su Dongpo wrote in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispness and sweetness in the middle." Yang Guangfu of the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Moon cakes are filled with peach and meat fillings, and ice cream is sweet with cane sugar frosting."
It can be seen that moon cakes at that time already had a certain meaning as "cake" and "moon".
Some people say that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is that in order to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the common people put the notes "Kill the boots and destroy the Yuan Dynasty; every family will do it together on August 15th" into moon cakes and passed them to each other. ! On August 15th, the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown by the common people. Maybe we eat moon cakes now to celebrate the joy of victory! Some people also say that the Mid-Autumn Festival is the harvest season, and it is a time for farmers to experience the joy and joy of enjoying the harvest!
The Mid-Autumn Festival is happy, a symbol of reunion, and a symbol of joy. Let us celebrate this "meaningful" Mid-Autumn Festival together!"
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