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August 15 is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China, and all activities revolve around the theme of the moon. Eat moon cakes, worship the moon, offer rabbits, etc. The moon was widely worshipped during the Han Dynasty.
The Temple of the Moon in Beijing is a building for the worship of the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival is the season of the most comfortable time of the year. The symbol of the Mid-Autumn Festival is mooncakes.
Mooncakes also symbolize family reunion. This symbolism of the Ming Dynasty has begun.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Reunion Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the autumn and evening moon festivals in ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has folk customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and endured endlessly.
The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to reunite people, as a sustenance of missing hometown, missing relatives, praying for a good harvest and happiness, and becoming a colorful and precious cultural heritage.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, was stereotyped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and the Chinese areas of the world. The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China.
Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday. On May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
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The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of our country - the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival are the four traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in "Zhou Li".
According to historical records, the festival of the ancient emperors to worship the moon was the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which coincided with the half of the three autumns, so it was called the "Mid-Autumn Festival"; And because this festival is in autumn and August, it is also called "Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August Meeting", "Mid-Autumn Festival"; There are also beliefs and related customs and activities to pray for reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day".
Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are carried out around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival", "Moon Night", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Playing the Moon Festival" and "Moon Worship Festival"; In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as the "Duanzheng Month". The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has become one of the main festivals in China as well as New Year's Day.
Regarding the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are roughly three kinds: it originated from the ancient worship of the moon, the custom of singing and dancing under the moon to find a couple, and the ancient custom of worshipping the land god in the autumn newspaper. In order to inherit the national culture and enhance the national cohesion, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday since 2008.
The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and on May 20, 2006, the festival was approved to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
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The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China, and it is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. August 15 is in the middle of autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancient calendar in China called August in the middle of autumn "Mid-Autumn", so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival".
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon was bright and clean, and the ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion, so they also called August 15 as the "Reunion Festival." Throughout the ages, people have often used the words "full moon" and "lack of moon" to describe "joys and sorrows", and wanderers living in other places have used the moon to express their affection. Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai's poems such as "Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown," Du Fu's "The dew is white tonight, and the moon is the hometown of Ming," and Wang Anshi's poem "The spring breeze and the south bank of the Green River are all sung by the Song Dynasty."
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The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China
The festival, "the brightest night of the year, the moon and the moon, thousands of miles of people's hearts to appreciate the time". The Mid-Autumn Festival is named because it is just half of the three autumns, and it is also called the round festival or the moon night, the mid-autumn festival, the August festival, etc. According to expert research, among the three traditional Chinese festivals - Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the latest.
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, a variety of festivals have been formed since ancient times, including popular customs that are generally accepted in various places, as well as customs rich in regional characteristics and ethnic customs. Such as eating moon cakes and admiring the moon and so on.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the harvest season. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is:
The crops are ripe and autumn". In August, the Mid-Autumn Festival ripens crops and various fruits, and farmers take the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a festival in order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy. "Mid-Autumn Festival" is the meaning of the middle of autumn, the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the middle month of autumn, and the fifteenth day is the middle day of this month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancients "Autumn Report".
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Jade rabbit pounding medicine.
Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a pair of rabbits who had practiced for thousands of years and became immortals. They have four lovely daughters, all of whom are born.
It is pure white and clever.
One day, the Jade Emperor summoned the male rabbit to the Heavenly Palace, and he reluctantly left his wife and children and stepped on the clouds to go to the Heavenly Palace. Just as it came to the South Heavenly Gate, it saw Tai Bai Xing leading the Heavenly General to escort Chang'e to his side. The rabbit fairy didn't know what was going on, so he asked a god next to him who was guarding the gate of heaven.
After hearing what happened to her, Rabbit Fairy felt that Chang'e was innocent and sympathized with her. But how can I help with my own meager strength? Thinking of Chang'e being locked up alone in the Moon Palace, how lonely and sad, if only someone accompanied her, suddenly thinking of her four daughters, it immediately rushed home.
The rabbit fairy told the female rabbit what happened to Chang'e, and said that she wanted to send a child to be Chang'e's companion. Although the female rabbit deeply sympathizes with Chang'e, she is reluctant to give up her baby daughter, which is equivalent to cutting off the meat in her heart! Several daughters were also reluctant to leave their parents, and one by one burst into tears.
The male rabbit said earnestly: "If I am locked up alone, are you willing to accompany me?" Chang'e was involved in order to save the people, can we not sympathize with her?
Child, we can't just think of ourselves! ”
The children understood their father's heart and expressed their willingness to go. The male and female rabbits smiled with tears in their eyes. They decided to let their youngest daughter go.
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Legend has a laurel tree in the moon, "Huainanzi" has said that "there is a laurel tree in the moon", and later legends are more specific, and Wu Gang, a person who cuts laurel is added next to the laurel tree. The legend of the laurel tree in the moon and Wu Gang is the most specific contained in the first volume of the first volume of the Tang Dynasty Duan Chengshi's "Youyang Miscellaneous Quirks", which is the cloud: "In the old saying, there are laurels and toads in the moon, so the laurel is five hundred zhang high, and there is a person under it who often cuts it, and the tree is created with it."
The surname is Wu Minggang, a native of Xihe, who has learned immortals, and ordered to cut down trees. ”
It means that Wu Gang once followed the immortal cultivator to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortal sent him to the moon and ordered him to cut down the tree of immortality, laurel. The laurel is as high as 500 zhang, and it can be combined with the cut, and Emperor Yan used this never-ending labor as a punishment for Wu Gang. There is a record in Li Bai's poem that "if you want to cut the laurel in the moon, you will be paid for the cold".
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Chang'e and Hou Yi are a very loving couple, Hou Yi has an apprentice who wants to get the elixir of immortality, so he forces Chang'e to take it out and Chang'e eats the elixir of immortality. Flying into the sky to the moon, the couple missed each other.
No, I'm so good!
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Soaring wings, thinking about dreams for dreams.
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