The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Playing Moon Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughters' Festival or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and Chinese character cultural circles in China, when it is on the 15th of August in the lunar calendar; because it is exactly half of the three autumns, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.
Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as moon sacrifice, moon viewing, moon worship, eating moon cakes, viewing osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and have lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the reunion of the people with the full moon, in order to miss the hometown, miss the love of relatives, pray for a good harvest and happiness, and become a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China.
Mid-Autumn Festival customs
Moon festivals, moon viewing, and moon worship
The Book of Rites has long recorded that "autumn twilight moon", which means to worship the moon god, and at this time, it is necessary to hold a cold greeting and moon sacrifice, and set up an incense case. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, a cold greeting and a moon festival were held. The custom of appreciating the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and the literati chanted poems to poems under the moon, admired the moon, drank wine, and chatted.
Enjoy osmanthus flowers and drink osmanthus wine
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the dangui in the moon, smelling the fragrance of cinnamon, drinking a cup of osmanthus nectar wine, celebrating the sweet honey of the family, has become a beautiful enjoyment of the festival. In modern times, people mostly take red wine instead.
Eat mooncakes
Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing and eating mooncakes are the necessary customs for spending the Mid-Autumn Festival in various parts of China, as the saying goes: "August 15 is round, Mid-Autumn Mooncakes are fragrant and sweet" The term mooncake originated from Wu Zimu's "Dream Liang Record" of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was only a snack food at that time.
Tide
In ancient times, in addition to the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhejiang, watching the tide can be described as another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of watching the tide in the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and it has been described in considerable detail as early as the "Seven Hairs" of the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was even more popular.
Play with flower lights
There is no large lantern festival like the Lantern Festival in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and playing with lights is mainly carried out between families and children.
On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a selection of 10 ancient poems describing the Mid-Autumn Festival classics will be appreciated with jun, and 10 songs singing the moon will be shared with jun, and I wish all friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy family!
"Water Tune Song Head"
Song SuShi
(Mid-Autumn Festival, drink da dan.) Drunken, composing this article, and pregnant with children)
When is the moon? Ask the wine to qingtian.
I don't know what year it is in the heavenly palace.
I want to go home by the wind, and I am afraid of Qionglou Yuyu,
It's cold in the heights.
Dancing to clarify the shadow, how does it seem to be in the human world?
Turn zhu ge, low Qi household, no sleep.
There should be no hatred, why should it be long to go to the other time?
People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has clouds and sunshine,
It's hard to complete.
May people be long-lasting, and thousands of miles will be cherished together.
"Looking at the Moon and Looking Away"
Don Zhang Jiuling
The sea is born with a bright moon, and the end of the world is at this time.
The lover complained about the night, and even thought of each other at night.
Extinguish the candle and fill the light, and the cloak feel dewy.
Can't afford to give away, but also sleep in the dream of a good period.
"Moonlit Night"
Don Du Fu
Tonight in the month of The State of The Moon, I only look at it alone.
Pity the little children, and do not remember Chang'an.
The incense mist clouds are wet, and the qinghui jade arm is cold.
When to lean on the false pretense, double photo tear stains dry.
《Mid-Autumn Moon》
Twilight clouds overflowed with cold, and the silver man silently turned the jade disk,
This life and this night are not long, where to see the bright moon next year.
Magnolia Slow
Song Xin abandons the disease
Poor this sunset and moon, where to go, to leisurely?
Is it someone else's world, only to be seen over there, the east end of the light and shadow?
Is it outside the sky, empty and sweaty, but the long wind haohao sends the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Flying mirror rootless who is tied? Who doesn't marry?
It is said that there is no reason to ask questions through the seabed, and the trance makes people sad.
Afraid of the long whale, the vertical and horizontal touch, the Jade Hall Qiong Lou.
Shrimp toad so can bathe in water, ask Yun He Yu rabbit to solve the ups and downs?
If the Tao is all unharmed, why does the cloud gradually become like a hook?
"Nian Nu Jiao, Over the Cave Garden"
Song Zhang Xiaoxiang
The grass in the cave garden is near the Mid-Autumn Festival, and there is no wind color.
Yujian Qiongtian is thirty thousand acres, and I have a flat boat and a leaf.
The moon is shining, the Ming River is in the shadow, and the surface is clear.
Leisurely heart will, the wonderful place is difficult to say with jun.
Should read the ridge table for years, lonely light self-illumination, liver and gallbladder are ice and snow.
The short hair is cold and the sleeves are cold, and the sky is wide.
Do your best to grasp the West River, carefully chop the Big Dipper, vientiane for guests.
I don't know what time it is.
"Qi Huai"
Qing Huang Jingren
A few times the flowers sat under the blowpipe, and the silver and red walls entered the distance.
It seems that this star is not last night, for whom the wind is shining in the middle of the night.
Lingering thoughts exhaust the cocoon, like a heartbreak peeled banana.
In March and May of three or five years, the poor cup of wine never disappeared.
《August 15th Night: Mochizuki Tei》
Don Bai Juyi
On the night of August 15 of the past year, by the apricot garden by the Qujiang Pond.
On the night of August 15 this year, in front of the Shatou Water Museum in Xiangpu.
Looking northwest to where is the township, southeast to see the moon several times round.
Last night's wind blew and no one would meet, and tonight the light was as clear as in previous years.
"Midnight Wu Song Autumn Song"
Don Lee Bai
Chang'an is a month, and the sound of thousands of households pounding clothes.
The autumn wind blows endlessly, and it is always jade.
He Riping Hu Yu, the good people strike the expedition.
《15th Night Mochizuki》
Don Wang Jian
Atrium white arboreal crow, cold dew silent wet osmanthus flowers.
Tonight the moon is full of hope, and I don't know whose house autumn will fall.
The moon is the hometown round, and the love is the old man's thick.
I write my thoughts in my heart, to the sea to live in the bright moon, to send the sky to the breeze,
Best wishes to you in your thoughts!
Bring a state of mind, taste a taste of mooncakes,
Bring a wish, send a blessing,
May the fragrance of autumn bring the joy of the festival,
May the freedom of autumn bring the joy of mid-autumn,
May the comfort of autumn bring the happiness of the festival,
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
Source: Guoxue Quiet Night