The same Mid-Autumn Festival, different ways. Throughout the ages, how many celebrities have made "new tricks" in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Bai Juyi loves to write poetry.
Although Bai Juyi lived in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, in his early years he had a sense of "Chang'an residence, it is not easy", and the road of officials and eunuchs was bumpy and uneven, and he was not satisfactory. When the Mid-Autumn Festival arrives, Bai Juyi often writes poems to express his chest and express the infinite loneliness in his heart.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in 817 was the third year that Bai Juyi was demoted to Sima of Jiangzhou (江州, in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi). This was the lowest period of Bai Juyi's life. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Bai Juyi wrote a seven-sentence poem "Mid-Autumn Moon":
The light is inconceivable, and the sorrow and hatred go around the end of the world.
Who is long wai jiu zhen shu? Where is the new parting before the court?
Lost favor, Ji Ji returned to the courtyard at night, when the veteran went upstairs.
According to his few human intestines, the jade rabbit silver toad is far from knowing.
Others write about the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is full of reunion and celebration atmosphere; Bai Juyi's poem has a different path, writing about soldiers stationed in border plugs, abandoned concubines, veterans who are deeply trapped in foreign countries, and so on. They all looked at the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival with infinite sadness.
In this way, with the Mid-Autumn Festival as the title, or the poems related to the Mid-Autumn Festival in the content, Bai Juyi wrote a total of 7 poems. It can be seen that it was the Mid-Autumn Festival that gave Bai Juyi the inspiration for creation.
If Bai Juyi likes to write poetry, then Su Dongpo loves to write words.
Su Dongpo is a collection of writers, calligraphers, gourmets, painters in one, and has made high achievements in poetry, words, prose, books, paintings and other aspects. In terms of lyrics, he is a representative of the bold school, with a broad vision and a magnificent weather; however, when Su Dongpo met the Mid-Autumn Festival, he suddenly became tender.
Su Dongpo's father was named Su Xun, and he had a younger brother named Su Rui. Father and son are called "Three Sus". When Su Xun died of illness, the two brothers relied on each other for their lives and cared for each other.
When the Mid-Autumn Festival arrived in 1076, Su Dongpo was working as a Taishou in Mizhou (present-day Zhucheng, Shandong), drinking while admiring the moon, and suddenly remembered his brother Su Rui, and infinite thoughts surged into his heart, and wrote a poem "Water Tune Song Head : When is the Bright Moon". This poem outlines an atmosphere of the realm of the moon when the moon is empty, the relatives are thousands of miles, and the lonely and distant realm has been passed down to this day. The content of the words is well known to everyone, and I will not repeat them here.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, how can you get less mooncakes?
Mooncakes full of local specialties are available all over the country. Liang Shiqiu was born in Beiping, Hangzhou County (now Hangzhou), Zhejiang Province, and has worked in Shanghai, Qingdao, Nanjing, Tianjin and other places, and naturally tastes mooncakes from all over the world.
At that time, a kind of hairy mooncake was popular in Beiping, which evolved from a Su-style puff pastry mooncake, which is said to be named after Empress Dowager Cixi. Liang Shiqiu believes: "The mooncake in the north is not superior to the mooncake in jiangnan, and it cannot be compared with the Cantonese mooncake." Perhaps Liang Shiqiu considered that this sentence would offend his friends in the north, and followed up with a sentence: "But there is a kind of hawthorn-stuffed mooncake, a thin little one, I think the flavor is very good, there is nothing elsewhere." The moon cake should not be too sweet, should not be too thick, hawthorn filling with sour taste, so do not feel greasy. ”
In Liang Shiqiu's view, the hawthorn stuffed mooncake has a unique flavor, which is worth mentioning specifically.
Liang Shiqiu married at the age of 24, and his wife Cheng Jishu is a native of Jixi, Anhui, and is 2 years older than him. The two had a good relationship after marriage. One year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hu Shi invited Liang Shiqiu through Xu Zhimo to eat flower wine outside.
The literati of the old era were somewhat "reading at night with red sleeves". Although Hu Shi is older than Liang Shiqiu, he likes to drink flower wine. Liang Shiqiu listened, hesitated for a long time, and went to find his wife Cheng Jishu to "ask for leave." Unexpectedly, Cheng Jishu agreed without hesitation, and smiled and said, "You go, see and see." Hey, when will you be back? ”
Liang Shiqiu immediately replied, "Of course, I will come back after eating." ”
Xu Zhimo was mentioned earlier, and here is an interesting story about Xu Zhimo's Mid-Autumn Festival.
Xu Zhimo is a native of Haining, Zhejiang Province, and is the cousin of the famous martial arts novelist Mr. Jin Yong. Xu Zhimo has lived a comfortable and prosperous life since he was a child, and when he grew up, he studied in Zhejiang No. 1 Middle School, Peking University and other famous universities, and later studied at Clark University in the United States and Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, and served as a professor at Peking University after returning to China.
September 25, 1925, coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival. Xu Zhimo was in Hangzhou at the time and planned to visit Hu Shi in Yanxia Cave with his cousin Xu Yiyi. Due to the lateness of the hour, they cancelled the plan and instead rafted west lake.
That night, they hired a boat and came to the center of the lake. They saw a couplet in the Pavilion of the Three Pools of the Moon Seal, which was made by Mr. Kang Youwei. Kang Youwei liked Hangzhou's West Lake very much, bought a piece of land, and built a "One Day Garden" villa. Xu Zhimo and Kang Youwei disagreed, and when they saw this couplet, they couldn't help but scold Kang Youwei.
At this time, they saw 3 people sitting nearby drinking tea and chatting, they felt very elegant, walked over to say hello, did not expect to hear an old man's accent is very familiar. Looking closely, it was Kang Youwei, whom they had just scolded very vigorously.