What is the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival? How did the Mid-Autumn Festival come about?
Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. I believe that when it comes to Mid-Autumn Festival, the first thing that comes to mind is mooncakes and holidays. So, I wonder if you know how the Mid-Autumn Festival came about? Let's expand our knowledge together with the editor. Autumn is the season of harvest. As the eighth month of the lunar calendar arrives, the autumn atmosphere gradually becomes stronger. The autumn breeze brings coolness, and days like this should be beautiful every day. Mr. Shui Mo will accompany you through every day of the eighth lunar month of 2018.How did the Mid-Autumn Festival come about?The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is Mid-Autumn Festival. This is a festival that is known to be the most humane and poetic. I miss my family more during every festival, especially during the Mid-Autumn Festival when the bright moon is high in the sky. The reason why Mid-Autumn Festival is called Mid-Autumn Festival is because the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is in the three-autumn system, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. The full moon in the sky on this day is exceptionally bright, big and round, so this day is also regarded as a great day for remembrance and reunion. The word "Mid-Autumn" was first seen in "Book of Rites·Monthly Ordinances", which records "In the middle of autumn, people take care of the elderly and eat porridge." There are several theories about the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival: 1. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the season of harvest. The word "autumn" is interpreted as: "autumn is the time when crops mature." During the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, crops and various fruits gradually mature. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, farmers regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival. "Mid-Autumn" means the middle of autumn. The eighth month of the lunar calendar is the middle month of autumn, and the fifteenth day is the middle day of this month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancients' "Autumn Report". 2. It is recorded in the Book of Rites: "The emperor worships the sun in the morning in spring and the moon in the evening in autumn." worshiping the moon means offering sacrifices to the moon. This shows that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperors had begun to offer sacrifices to the moon. Later, noble officials and scholars also followed suit, and it gradually spread to the people. 3. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be on August 15th of the 13th year of Daye in the late Sui Dynasty. Pei Ji of the Tang army used the full moon as an idea and successfully invented moon cakes. He distributed them throughout the army as military pay, successfully solving the problem of military food resulting from the large-scale absorption of anti-Sui rebel forces.What to eat during the Mid-Autumn FestivalTaro: Eating taro during the Mid-Autumn Festival means warding off evil spirits and eliminating disasters, and it also means not believing in evil. The Records of Chaozhou Prefecture during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty said: "On Mid-Autumn Festival, people enjoy the full moon and eat taro, which is called peeling ghost skin." Skinning the ghost and eating it is very much like Zhong Kui exorcising ghosts, which is respectable. Osmanthus wine is made on every Mid-Autumn night. People look up at the bright moon, smell the osmanthus fragrance, imagine Wu Gang chopping osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrate the sweetness of the family, and get together. It has become a festival enjoyment. Osmanthus is not only ornamental, but also edible. Osmanthus is not only ornamental, but also edible. Eating lotus roots during the Mid-Autumn Festival also symbolizes reunion, especially eating "lotus root boxes". People in Jiangsu and Zhejiang often cut the lotus root into slices, connect the lower ends of each two slices, put meat, clams and other fillings in the middle, and fry the outside until golden brown. This is also called lotus root cake, which is similar to moon cake. Pumpkin Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in various parts of Jiangnan, and every household has the custom of eating old pumpkin and glutinous rice on August 15. |
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