Legend has it that during the Warring States period, there was a saltless woman in the State of Qi who was elected to the palace by King Xuan of Qi because of her superhuman virtue and talent. But the unsalted girl's appearance was ugly, and King Xuanwang never looked for her again after a quick glance.
On this day, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival, the salt-free woman prayed to the moon in the courtyard. Just when King Qi Xuan was passing through this place, he saw that the moonlight was hazy, and the saltless woman was also like a fairy in the moon palace, and under the surprise, he decided to set her up as the queen.
If Wang Zhaojun had been able to worship the moon and be seen by Emperor Yuan of Han, how could he not have been overwhelmed by a painting by Mao Yanshou. However, in any case, the custom of worshipping the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival has been handed down, and it is said that it has the effect of praying for all the best and wishing for success.
In fact, about the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are endless beautiful legends and characteristic customs. Today, we will talk about those things that have spent the Mid-Autumn Festival overseas.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="4" >01 Mid-Autumn Festival in neighboring countries: much the same</h1>
The Mid-Autumn Festival in South Korea is known as the "Autumn Festival".
Unlike Chinese eating mooncakes, the traditional delicacy of the Autumn Festival is a dim sum called muffins. Muffins are somewhat similar to Chinese dumplings, made of rice noodles, spread round, filled with jujube paste, bean paste and other fillings, then wrapped up, steamed on a pine wool mat, and the muffins are made.
The skin of muffins tends to be very colorful and varied, because rice noodles can be mixed with a variety of tonal juices. For example, rice noodles with vegetable juice are green, and peach petals are mixed with sun-dried and ground peach petals, and the muffins will take on a pale pink color.
But there is no need to be the same as the color palette, and it is recommended that the color here is still to promote appetite first.
The shape of the muffin is half a moon, many people will ask, this Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone eats a reunion, what is your whole half-cut moon?
In fact, Koreans understand the moon differently from Chinese. Chinese loved the perfect full moon. The Koreans emphasize the starting point, the muffin is made in half a month, taking the meaning of turning from loss to profit, which can motivate people to continue to work hard and move forward for a better life.
This cultural difference proves one thing: if you look closely, you and I are great philosophers!
Is there a round pastry like china that eats round pastries during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Yes, Japan is.
Japan's Mid-Autumn Festival is known as the "Moon Sight Festival" and "Fifteen Nights". Japanese people celebrate Lunar New Year without too complicated rituals and events, but there are two things that are essential.
The first is the special food evening dumplings, which are similar to muffins, using rice to make skins and bean paste to make dumplings to make dumplings similar to tangyuan.
The Japanese do not pay attention to the moon and the loss, but let go of themselves, rabbits, pumpkins, frogs and so on may be the shape of the evening dumplings.
After the tukimi dumplings are steamed, they are personally carried by the elders and placed in the open-air corridor, and the family gathers together to enjoy the moon and eat the dumplings.
The second thing: miscanthus. Miscanthus is an herb that is very similar to rice, so it is used as a symbol of harvest.
On the day of the Lunar Festival, every household has to go out to collect miscanthus and put it in front of the door. Miscanthus is a sacred object in the Japanese tradition, with the miraculous effect of exorcising demons and protecting crops from drought and floods.
In fact, as long as it is not irrigated by nuclear wastewater, the yield of rice ears will not be too different.
The Mid-Autumn Festival in South Korea and Japan has been fully integrated into the customs and characteristics of the national people, which is very different from the traditional Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. However, in Malaysia, Singapore and other countries with many Chinese, the Mid-Autumn Festival is still a festival with a strong Chinese style.
Let's take a look at Malaysia first, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there will be a long line on the street, people carrying lanterns and following the lion dance team slowly forward. At first glance, I thought it was the Spring Festival.
This custom was first left behind by Chinese who moved to Malaysia, and today, the most lively lantern tour is held in the old streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur, with more than 100,000 participants.
For a while, it was impossible to tell whether this was a foreign country or their own backyard.
Of course, this event is not only attended by chinese, many Malaysians are affected by the warm and festive atmosphere, and will also join in, sharing food, fun facts and sending each other good wishes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a festival for families, but in Vietnam, children became the protagonists of the festival. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the streets of Vietnam are full of stalls, some selling moon cakes, some selling toys, and children will happily shop, buy things, play and play under the leadership of their parents.
In the evening, under the organization of their families and schools, the children will change into uniform and ethnic costumes, make up on stage, and perform programs.
This is nothing for children with social, and those who are shy and shy will find that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a child robbery.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="8" >02 Mid-Autumn Festival in China: Burning the tower and erecting lanterns, enjoying a round of moon at home and abroad</h1>
After talking about the Mid-Autumn Festival in neighboring countries, we also returned to our own doorstep to talk about the different Mid-Autumn Festival in China. As the saying goes, five miles of different days, the sky is north and south, if the festival is not a whole time, how can the people of the whole country remember us?
In Guangxi, Fujian and other places, the Mid-Autumn Festival spread a custom called "burning the tower". The "burning tower" dates back to the end of the Yuan Dynasty, liu Bowen and various generals agreed to rebel against the Yuan, in order to keep it secret, hid the note with the words "See the fire and rise" into the moon cake and distributed it to them.
If there had been a WeChat group, there might have been no mooncake.
The burning of the tower is usually held in the evening. During the day, children would walk the streets collecting old tiles, broken bricks and firewood and handing them over to the adults to build stone towers that were two meters high and more than a meter in diameter, filled with flammable firewood.
Before the burning of the pagoda begins, a special person will first perform the ritual of worshiping the ancestors and praying for blessings, and then pour pine resin, liquor, etc. on the firewood, and the moment the fire is ignited, the fire will rise up in the sky, and at this moment, there is only one thought in everyone's mind: I have already lit up!
Because there is a gap in the fuel, quantity, and size of the burning towers in each village, if any village can pile the tallest tower and burn the most prosperous fire, they can get the most auspicious qi, and the next year will surely have a bumper harvest.
To this end, the villages have painstakingly burned the towers to perfection. If you walk the streets and alleys and see that the burning towers in other villages are more prosperous than those in your own village, although you can't say so, you have already been annoyed in your heart: Why didn't you pile up a few more layers! I would like to pass on the word to the Tarisei Point Boren.
Although Guangdong is adjacent to Guangxi, Guangdong does not burn towers. Guangdong has a custom called "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival", which originated in Foshan. According to legend, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the ancient Foshan people would use three long bamboo poles to form a bar, on which hung red lanterns, because the bamboo poles were erected high, so it was called "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival".
There are also competitions similar to burning towers in the Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival. Because the purpose of this custom is to worship the moon and get the protection of the moon, the higher the lantern, the more moonlight can be "divided", and the more blessings there are. It is said that a family once hung a lantern in the air at a height of fifty meters in order to win the mid-autumn festival competition in the village.
Here we encourage appropriate competition and reasonable lanterns. Otherwise people think you're flying kites here.
After the lantern is hung, Cantonese people will eat field snails to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. This tradition comes from a myth that there is an immortal named Zhang Gugu who lived on the moon and liked to eat snails before he was born.
Zhang Gugu felt very lonely on the moon, only on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival can he see the appearance of the human world, he sees who eats field snails to commemorate him, he will use it to baptize him, so that his eyes are brighter and more energetic.
But when you can't eat your favorite food, are you polite to eat in front of people?
Of course, between the moon and the earth, there are not only these myths and legends, but also the Mid-Autumn Festival of the "Approaching Science" series: Zhejiang Mid-Autumn Festival.
Zhejiang's Qiantang River tide is one of the world's rare wonders, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the sun, the moon, the earth three points and a line, is the most abundant gravitational attraction of celestial bodies, the tide of the Qiantang River will surge, stirring up tens of meters high tide.
Yes, not to mention the three points and one line, even if it is nine stars, it is only a little stronger tidal force on the earth. As for cultivating immortals and crossings, it can only be said that it has yet to be studied.
But Zhejiang has a tradition of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Even some of them have good water characteristics, jumping into the water, and have a sense of "breaking the waves with thunder".
Spend a good full moon night, thousands of miles together. But what is the influence of the Mid-Autumn Festival? For thousands of years, spanning millions of miles, even in the United States, which is far away from the Pacific Ocean, there are Also Chinese-organized Mid-Autumn Festival activities.
No matter where it is, no matter what customs, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival to celebrate reunions, which is why she has always been cherished and loved by people.
And even those who are restricted from seeing each other can pass on blessings and care through a full moon.
Therefore, the thoughts of people are endless, the Mid-Autumn Festival will not be snubbed, and all the thoughts will have sustenance.