When did the Mid Autumn Festival moon viewing begin, and a brief introduction to the Mid Autumn Fest

"The moon is the Mid-Autumn Festival", and the moon is the brightest in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The full moon on August 15 is called the "Mid-Autumn Moon", and in Japan it is also called the "Fifteenth Night", which is also the "Mid-Autumn Festival" in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing has a long history, and it was introduced to Japan as a Chinese court practice during the Heian period in Nara (710-1191 AD, during the Tang and Song dynasties in China). In the past, on September 13, a month after the Mid-Autumn Festival, there were celebrations of "Thirteen Nights" and "the Month After the Queen".

There is a saying that the moon should be rewarded twice, not just once. Of course, the custom of "Thirteen Nights" is only a Japanese practice, not China. Moon viewing is a ritual based on the "Old Calendar", which determines the calendar based on the moon's ups and downs, which is very different from the modern calendar, and the days of moon viewing also vary from year to year.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, China has had the custom of admiring the moon since ancient times, and the "Book of Rites" records the "autumn twilight and sunset moon", that is, worshipping the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival admired the moon, the whole family reunited, and ate moon cakes. Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, it is necessary to welcome the cold and worship the moon.

Set up a large incense table, put on moon cakes, watermelons, apples, plums, grapes and other seasonal fruits, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut into lotus shapes. Moon viewing "The moon is the Mid-Autumn Festival", and the moon is the brightest in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The full moon on August 15 is called the "Mid-Autumn Moon", and in Japan it is also called the "Fifteenth Night", which is also the "Mid-Autumn Festival" in China. Moon viewing is a ritual based on the "Old Calendar", which determines the calendar based on the moon's ups and downs, which is very different from the modern calendar, and the days of moon viewing also vary from year to year.

Admire the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, reunite the whole family, and eat moon cakes.

The origin of the moon appreciation during the Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; Because it coincides with the half of the three autumns, it is named. It is said that the moon is the closest to the earth on this night, and the moon is the largest and brightest, so there is a custom of drinking and feasting to admire the moon from ancient times to the present.

From the season, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the "Autumn Harvest Festival", the grains planted in spring and summer should be harvested in the autumn, since ancient times, people have been drinking and dancing in this season, celebrating the harvest with joy, which is depicted in the earliest poetry collection in our country, the Book of Songs.

In terms of origin, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also the "Moon Festival", which originated from the worship of nature by ancient humans. In the ritual system of ancient emperors, there were two sacrifices in spring and autumn: spring sacrifice day and autumn sacrifice month.

Originally, the day of the moon festival was on the day of the "autumn equinox", and the season of "autumn equinox" was different every year in August, so there was not necessarily a moon on the day of the autumn equinox.

From the perspective of scientific observation, the tilt of the sun in the earth and celery increases in autumn, and the warm and humid air over the land of China gradually subsides, and at this time, the northwest wind is still very weak. In this way, the humidity has gone, the sand and dust have not risen, the air is extraordinarily fresh, the sky is particularly clean, the moon looks round and big, it is the best time to enjoy the moon.

1. The Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation means reunion and sustenance. The blue sky is like washing, the full moon is like a plate, people can't help but miss their relatives who travel far away and live in a foreign land when they enjoy the moon, and many ancient poems express people's feelings of missing at this time. A hook of the crescent moon can be associated with the budding things of the newborn, and a full moon can be associated with a beautiful reunion life.

2. Eating moon cakes: eating moon cakes is the main custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival, according to the present and no records, the custom of eating moon cakes first originated in the Tang Dynasty, Tang Xizong ate moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, felt that the taste was extremely beautiful, and ordered the imperial dining room to wrap moon cakes in red silk to reward the new scholars. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were known as "lotus leaf", "golden flower", "hibiscus" and other elegant names, and their production methods were more exquisite.

The poet Su Dongpo praised it in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there are crisps and syrup." It's delicious.

3. Worship the moon: In ancient times, there was the custom of "autumn twilight and sunset", and the evening moon was to worship the moon god. Under the moon, set up a big incense case, put the statue of the moon god in the direction of the moon, the red candle is burning, put the moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plum grapes and other offerings, the whole family worships the moon in turn, and then the hall slides by the housewife to cut the reunion moon cakes, and the whole family is cut into as many pieces as there are.

4. Moon appreciation: In addition to the moon sacrifice, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of moon appreciation since ancient times, and in the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night should be held to welcome the cold and sacrifice the moon, set up a large incense case, put food and wine, and a group of people gather around to drink and admire the moon.

It means that the current time is very conducive to appreciating the beautiful scenery of the moon made by ants, the moon is very beautiful at this time, it is an excellent opportunity to admire the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is a good time to enjoy the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

1. The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of the moon and the reunion of people, in order to express the feelings of missing hometown and relatives, praying for a good harvest and happiness, and becoming a colorful and precious cultural heritage.

2. The Mid-Autumn Festival customs have a long origin, and the Mid-Autumn Festival customs are close to the needs of the people's lives, and the people will concentrate the autumn festivals and customs on the Mid-Autumn Festival, making the Mid-Autumn Festival one of the major festivals of the four seasons.

3. Worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, and celebrating reunion are the core of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival, and from the perspective of contemporary social life, it still has the practical significance of meeting the needs of people's lives. 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.

This situation is because on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the moon is the largest and roundest, so on this day, it is more suitable for moon viewing.

1 people: I hope that people will last a long time, thousands of miles of ingenuity and boredom in the world, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival, generally speaking, relatives and friends will get together at this time.

2.Time: This time belongs to autumn, there is less rain and the Mid-Autumn Festival is just August 15, and the moon is full.

3.The custom that has been handed down since ancient times is to shout filial piety.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation is ** in the moon sacrifice.

The custom of moon appreciation** is to worship the moon, and the serious sacrifice becomes a relaxed entertainment. The folk Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing activities began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but they did not become a habit. In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was quite popular for admiring the moon and playing with the moon, and many poets had verses about the moon in their famous poems.

In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed centered on moon viewing activities, and it was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Different from the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty moon appreciation is more sentimental and sad, often cloudy and sunny, metaphorical human affairs, even on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the clear light of the bright moon can not hide the sadness of the Song people. But for the Song people, there was another form of Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the Mid-Autumn Festival was a festival of secular pleasure.

The traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Eat moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing and eating moon cakes are a necessary custom for the Mid-Autumn Festival in all parts of China, as the saying goes: August 15 is full, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet. The word moon cake originated from Wu Zimu's "Dream Lianglu" in the Southern Song Dynasty, which was only a dim sum food at that time.

Later, people gradually combined moon viewing with moon cakes, implying family reunion and longing.

2. Guess the riddle. On the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many lanterns are hung in public places, and people gather to guess the riddles written on the lanterns. Because it is a favorite activity of most young men and women, and at the same time, love stories are also spread in these activities, so the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern riddle is also derived from a form of love between men and women.

There is a special festival in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which is included in the traditional Chinese festivals, it is the "Mid-Autumn Festival", also known as the "Reunion Festival" and "August Festival", and the "Mid-Autumn Festival" is based on a mythical story in the Wei and Jin dynasties.

In fact, the origin of the "Mid-Autumn Festival" is the development of the mythical story of "Hou Yi shooting the sun", legend, when there were ten suns in the sky, the earth dried up, the crops were difficult to survive, the people were in dire straits, the door did not dare to go out, the pain was unspeakable, in order to save the people in the dire straits, Hou Yi shot off nine suns, which saved the common people.

Later, after this matter was known by the queen mother, she praised Hou Yi, called him to the sky, and rewarded him with a kind of fairy medicine, which was this kind of fairy medicine in the back to make their husband and wife separated from each other, at that time he was reluctant to eat, so he took this fairy medicine home for his wife Chang'e to keep, but he didn't know that the news that they got the fairy medicine had been targeted by the bad guys, one day Hou Yi went out to work, he just left with a smile on his front feet, and the bad guys went to the house to snatch the fairy medicine, and Chang'e ate the fairy medicine in a critical situation, and then the body slowly became lighter, and then slowly left the ground of the grand banquet, Running to the moon, Hou Yi came back and saw Chang'e running to the moon and called his wife, but in the end he could only watch Chang'e drift away and there was nothing he could do, so he could only face Chang'e's shadow under the moon and cry sadly.

Later, every day, Hou Yi would eat moon cakes and drink wine by the river, while admiring the moon, in order to express his thoughts about Chang'e, and also looking forward to Chang'e coming back one day, now, worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, and drinking wine have become the unique customs of the "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Now more and more young people yearn for festivals in other countries, but ignore the traditional festivals of our country, and hope that every "Spring Festival", "Lantern Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Qingming Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival" will ...... in the futureEach of us should actively participate in these festivals, which are a gift to us, our national intangible cultural heritage, and we should carry them forward.

Wei and Jin dynasties. There was a very good mythical story at the time. The elephant disturbance symbolizes reunion, and the sedan chair will also send some thoughts about the source of the sorrow of the hometown, and will also think of their relatives. That's why there is such a custom.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival moon appreciation is due to the fact that Chang'e ran to the moon, and it is also an ancient myth and legend, which has left people with a lot of reverie.

It began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, and it was more prosperous in the Song and Tang dynasties, for example, there are related sentences in the old news of Qu Xiao.