Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival
Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival
Festival hours: Lunar August 15
In accordance with China's calendar, the Lunar New Year 7, 8, 9 of three months is the autumn. August is the middle of the month fall on August 15 and August is the middle of the day, so this festival is "Mid-Autumn Festival." Autumn, the weather was fine, cool, the sky a little Fuyun, the night sky of the moon also Jiaojie is particularly bright. August 15 is at the full moon night, the full moon become the best time. People Yuan Yue as a symbol of a happy reunion, the Mid-Autumn Festival known as "Tuan Yuanjie," after the Spring Festival is China's second largest traditional festivals.

CCTV 2005 Mid-Autumn Festival show "天涯共此时"

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, festival on the full moon festival is an important custom. Etiquette ancient emperors have spring, autumn festival on the social system, there are private houses on the style of the Mid-Autumn Festival, to the later emphasis on the full moon festival, the solemn ritual has become easy Huanyu. Mid-Autumn festival in the custom of the Tang Dynasty Jisheng, many poets have in the Mingpian Wing on the poem, the Song Dynasty, the Ming dynasty, the Qing court and civil worship on the scale of the full moon more activities. Remains of various parts of China have many, "Baidoa on altar," "worship, kiosks," "Mochizuki floor," the monument. Beijing's "altar," is that Jiajingnianjian to build on the Royal Festival. Now, the festival of worship on a grand scale activities have been, diverse recreational activities of the masses replaced by the full moon.
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes, eat dumplings and the Dragon Boat Festival, the Lantern Festival to eat Tangyuan, is the traditional Chinese folk customs. The moon cake is round, symbolizing the reunion, some localities have also called "reunion cake", is the Festival of the goods will be fresh. Since ancient times, people regarded as auspicious moon cakes, a symbol of reunification. During the Mid-Autumn full moon, family reunion, for the full moon cake, Tantianshuide, is enjoyable.
Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes habits, has a long history in China. Mid-Autumn Festival on the origin of moon cakes, there are different versions. One argument is: Tang Taizong Li Shimin reign (627-649), the General Li Jing crusade Hun Triumph, August 15 and to the Arc de Triomphe. At that time, the business Turpan presented to the Tang dynasty emperor cake celebration party. Taizong took over the ornate cake box, with a round cake, the smile that air moon said: "The cake should be invited Hu toad (that is, the moon)." Cake to finish at Qunchen together to eat. Since then, the Mid-eat-cake started the custom spread. According to another legend, but Li Longji in Tang Xuanzong (712-755 reign) was the most loved and Fei Zi Yang Hu with the full moon to eat cake, Xuanzong suspected of "Hu cake" is not good, the Royal Looking at the head of the Haoyue, said Suikou : "Called moon cakes!" "Moon cakes" the name of this fixed.
China's many varieties of moon cakes, around the system is not the same law, different flavor. From the origin can generally be divided into five categories: Beijing, Tianjin, wide, and the Soviet Union, the tide, great deal of diversity among. Moon cakes stuffed with sweet, salty, Hun, Su, moon cakes of various patterns and also above the words, it is good-looking, and tasty.

Moon cakes

The Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai (701-762) made by the "Jingye Si," a poem in China is the teenage children would recite the phrase:
Bed former Ming Dynasty moonlight,
Suspect is on the cream.
Wang cited the first moon,
Bow to think of home.
This poem is very straightforward and performance of the moon on the Youzai far from home caused by the strong feelings of homesickness. They can not return to the homeland and return to their loved ones around him and enjoy a Family Fun and had to look up to a symbol of happiness and reunion of the moon, sent away their blessings.
Since ancient times, China has a lot of myths and legends on the moon, one of the most famous is "Changebenyue." Chang is the ancient Chinese myths and legends of radio hero Hou Yi, the wife, Hou Yi said she steal from the West received the Queen Mother's death of longevity medicine, and became cents, fly the Yuegong. Followed by "cutting-Gui Wu Gang," the legend. Wu Gang is a reclassification of West Fox (Sisyphus)-style characters, he Qiuxiandedao, but a fault was banished to the moon, the day before the felling of Guanghan Gong laurel. Laurel has more than 500 Zhang, Wu Gang in the trunk of each chop on a gap, the gap will be an immediate closure, so he can never repeat this futile hard labour. Meanwhile, according to legend, close look at the case, August 15 when people can see the moon on the toad and Yutu. All these legends moon add a lot of magic and romantic, now the children will also listen to the full moon in the older generation repeatedly Jiangqi.

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