Customs and stories about the Mid Autumn Festival, stories and legends and customs of the Mid Autumn

Customs: guessing lantern riddles, eating moon cakes, lighting lanterns, admiring the moon, playing with the moon, burning incense, tree Mid-Autumn Festival, lighting tower lanterns, putting sky lanterns, walking the moon, dancing the fire dragon, walking through the Nanpu Bridge, hanging lanterns, inviting the moon aunt when worshipping the moon, burning clay pots, lighting orange lanterns, "watching the meeting", sacrificing to the earth valley god, going to the grave to worship the ancestors, vigil, blowing drums along the door, asking for money, watching the string of moons, jumping the moon, worshiping the moon, worshiping the moon and so on!

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Since the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are moon appreciation, moon worship, and moon play, it is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival as the Moon Festival or Moon Night, so the moon has become an indispensable protagonist of the Mid-Autumn Festival. As early as before the Warring States period, the ancients said that there was a moon palace in the moon, and there were toads in the moon palace, so people also commonly called the moon palace as the Dan Palace and because the full moon is like a plate, it is also called the toad plate or toad light. In the Han Dynasty, in addition to the toad in the legend, there was also a jade rabbit in the moon.

Since the saying that there is a toad rabbit in the moon is widely spread, the ancients often used the golden rabbit, jade rabbit or toad rabbit as another name for the moon. In the Tang Dynasty, it further deduced the myth of Wu Gang cutting cinnamon, the legend of the laurel tree in the moon is as high as 500 zhang, this laurel tree is not only tall, but also has a magical self-healing function. There is a Xihe man surnamed Wu Minggang, because of the immortal has been reprimanded, so he cut down the laurel tree in the Moon Palace, every time he cut an axe, the axe and the tree wound will heal immediately, so Wu Gang cut the laurel in the Moon Palace all the year round, and he can never cut down the tree.

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1. Jade rabbit pounding medicine.

There is a jade rabbit next to Chang'e. It is said that when Chang'e became lighter and began to rise into the air, she picked up the white rabbit that she had been feeding in a panic. The white rabbit went to the moon with her.

The Jade Rabbit has a medicine pestle in the Moon Palace, and at night it pounds the elixir of immortality in the medicine mortar. After this myth spread to Japan, it became a jade rabbit pounding rice cakes.

2. The story of Xuanzong.

According to legend, Tang Xuanzong and Shen Tianshi and Taoist Hongdu looked at the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and suddenly Xuanzong raised the idea of visiting the Moon Palace, so the Heavenly Master did it, and the three of them walked on the green clouds together and roamed the Moon Palace. However, there is a heavy guard in front of the palace, and it is impossible to enter, and can only overlook the Chang'an Imperial City outside. At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of immortals, Tang Xuanzong had always been familiar with the rhythm of music, so he remembered it silently in his heart.

This is exactly "This song should only exist in the sky, and the world can hear it a few times!" In the future, Xuanzong recalled the ** singing voice of the Moon Palace Xian'e, composed and choreographed his own music, and created the famous "Neon Clothes and Feather Song" in history.

Customs: lighting lamps, eating moon cakes, admiring the moon, guessing riddles, playing lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc.

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