How do modern people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?
How do modern people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? I believe everyone is familiar with the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural custom of our country. Of course, we must celebrate the arrival of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Next, I will take you to learn more about how modern people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. How do modern people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 1
1. Prepare delicious food
Each place has different customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival. For example, Niuniu is the place where everyone celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival. Each household sets up a large table of food and decorations (each household has a small tower made of food, such as fruit candies or biscuits), placed on the roadside, music plays, worshiping the moon god, and looking across the street , very dazzling. Then, during the day, you should help your parents prepare things for worship. If there is no custom, then go to the supermarket to choose exquisite mooncakes.
2. Family dinner
It’s okay to have a meal or chat with your family. After work, you have very little time with your family. Cherish every dinner together and don’t play with your mobile phone or computer. , just spend a day with your family.
3. Eat moon cakes and admire the moon
Find an open-air place, eat moon cakes with friends, chat and admire the moon, talk about your current situation, and funny things.
Ancient Mid-Autumn Festival Customs
1. Song and Dance Marathon
If there is no TV show, it will be performed by live people. Anyway, Hongli Tongxie has many people, and he seems to have a lot of money. , the most important thing is also having more money. Come together. Looking at the spectacle of the theater, some people were secretly wondering how many bottles of 1982 Lafite they would drink after this event. Think about it, I have enough money anyway, so it doesn’t matter.
2. Reciting poems and composing poems
"I think my writing is pretty good." As long as the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, you must write poems. Hongli has written more than 100 Mid-Autumn poems in his life. After he has finished, he must ask Everyone circulated it and praised it. The emperor wrote it very well. The general content of Hongli Children's Shoes' poems is that the moon is beautiful, the moon is great, and life is great every day. For example, the sentence "If the scenery is so clear, who is thinking about autumn?" "But the Mid-Autumn moon is like a poem about the scenery." No explanation needed at all.
3. Must go hunting
On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hongli Children's Shoes went hunting on time amidst the cheers of the masses. The child often drives his car (that is, rides a horse) to hunt domestic animals. Everyone was very happy. Think about it, a semi-otaku who loves theater actually has the potential to be a joker. He seems to be quite talented in sports. After all, no one dares to embarrass him. Think about it, if you are tired and don’t love, life always seems unfair. So what exactly do Hongli children eat during the festival? Anyway, there seem to be 30 kinds of snacks alone. As for the specific expenses for meals, here is a case study of the ingredients for the Qianlong New Year's Eve dinner. Ingredients for the New Year's Eve dinner: 65 pounds of pork, 1 fat duck, 3 vegetable ducks, 3 fat chickens, 7 vegetable chickens, 3 pork knuckles, 2 pork belly, 8 belly, 15 rice dishes, 25 wild boar meat Jin, 5 Guandong geese, 20 pounds of mutton, 15 pounds of venison, 6 pheasants, 20 pounds of fish, 4 deer tails, and 3 small and large pig intestines. In addition, 5 pounds and 4 taels of white flour, 6 taels of white sugar, etc. are used to make snacks.
Mid-Autumn Festival customs in various places
The folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Jiangnan area are also diverse. Nanjing people love to eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they must eat Jinling’s famous dish, osmanthus duck. "Osmanthus duck" is on the market when osmanthus is fragrant. It is fat but not greasy and delicious. After drinking, you must eat a small amount of sugar taro and pour it with cinnamon syrup. It goes without saying that it is delicious. "Guangxi Pulp" is named after Qu Yuan's "Songs of the Chu: Shao Siming" "Help the North to drink Guangxi Pulp". Guijiang, also known as sugar osmanthus, is picked around the Mid-Autumn Festival and pickled with sugar and sour plums. Jiangnan women are skillful in turning the things chanted in poems into delicacies on the table. Nanjing people call it "celebrating reunion" when they enjoy the moon together as a family, "full moon" when they sit together and drink together, and "walk around the moon" when they go out to the market.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Nanjing had the Moon Tower and the Moon Bridge. In the Qing Dynasty, the Moon Tower was built under the Lion Rock. They were all for people to admire the moon, and those who visited the Moon Bridge were the most popular. When the moon is high in the sky, people go to the Moon Tower and visit the Moon Bridge together, and enjoy seeing the Jade Rabbit. "Wanyue Bridge" is located in the Confucius Temple in Qinhuai, Henan. Next to the bridge is the residence of Ma Xianglan, a famous prostitute. That night, scholars gathered at the bridge to play and sing, reminiscing about Niuzhu playing with the moon and composing poems to the moon, so this bridge was called Wanyue Bridge. .
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, it gradually declined, and later generations had poems to write about it: "Fengliu Nanqu has been sold out, leaving only the west wind long Banqiao, but I recall the jade man sitting on the bridge, teaching me how to play the flute against the bright moon." Changbanqiao is the original Wanyue Bridge. In recent years, Nanjing Confucius Temple has been renovated, restoring some pavilions from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and dredging the river. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can come together to enjoy the fun of moonlighting here.
In Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, incense sticks are burned on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. The incense cup is surrounded by gauze and silk, with scenes from the Moon Palace painted on it. There are also incense buckets made of incense threads, with Kuixing and colorful flags tied with paper inserted on them. The Shanghainese Mid-Autumn Festival feast is served with sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine.
In Ji’an County, Jiangxi Province, on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, every village uses straw to burn earthen pots. After the crock is hot, add vinegar. At this time, the fragrance will fill the whole village. During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xincheng County, grass lanterns are hung from the night of August 11th until August 17th.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Wuyuan, Anhui Province, children build a hollow pagoda with bricks and tiles. Decorations such as curtains and plaques are hung on the tower. A table is placed in front of the tower and various utensils for worshiping the "God of the Tower" are displayed. At night, lights are lit both inside and outside. Children in Jixi play Mid-Autumn Festival cannons. The Mid-Autumn Cannon is made of straw tied into a braid, soaked and then picked up and struck on a stone to make a loud noise and a fire dragon custom. The fire dragon is a dragon made of grass with incense sticks stuck on its body. During the Fire Dragon Tour, a gong and drum team accompanied them, and they visited various villages before being sent to the river. How do modern people celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival 2
Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient custom of worshiping astronomical phenomena and respecting the moon. According to "Zhou Li Chunguan", in the Zhou Dynasty, there were activities such as "welcoming the cold on Mid-Autumn Night", "offering good furs at Mid-Autumn Festival", and "worshiping the moon at the equinox"; in the Han Dynasty, people also respected the elderly on the day of Mid-Autumn Festival or Beginning of Autumn. , support the elderly, and give them thick cakes. The practice of admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival was also practiced in the Jin Dynasty, but it was not very common. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival was combined with mythological stories such as Chu'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurels, the Jade Rabbit pounding medicine, Yang Guifei turning into a moon god, and Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty visiting the Moon Palace. It is full of romantic color, and the trend of playing with the moon has just become popular.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, August 15th was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the seasonal food "small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings" appeared. Meng Yuanlao's "Tokyo Menghua Lu" said: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, noble families decorated their pavilions, and people competed for restaurants to play in the moonlight." Moreover, "strings are heavy and cauldrons are boiling, and residents nearby hear the sound of sheng and taro in the middle of the night, just like clouds." Outside, there are children playing all night, and the night market is full of people. "Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu" said: "At this time, the golden phoenix is ??refreshing, the jade dew is refreshing, the osmanthus is fragrant, and the silver toad is shining. Rich people with huge houses all climb up to the dangerous towers, play under the moon in the pavilion, or open the pavilion, prepare banquets, play pianos and harps, drink wine and sing, so as to predict the joy of the evening. , arrange a family banquet, gather around the children, to celebrate the festival, although the poor people in the back alleys are drinking in the farmers market, they are reluctant to spend the night selling and buying in the streets, until the five drums are played, and the mother-in-law is there. "The market is burning." What's more interesting is that the "New Drunkard's Talk" records the custom of worshiping the moon: "The children of the Qingcheng family do not think that they are rich or poor, but they are all decorated with adult eyes. , climb the tower or burn incense in the atrium to worship the moon, and each has his own way; the man wants to go to the Toad Palace early and climb up to the fairy osmanthus... The woman wants to look like Chang'e and be as round as the bright moon."
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, moon-viewing activities remained popular. "The fruit cakes they offer must be round"; each family must set up a "moonlight position" and "offer offerings to the moon" in the direction of moonrise. Lu Qihong's "Beijing Suihua Ji" records: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, people put up symbols of the Moon Palace, with the symbols on them standing like people; they put melons and fruits in the courtyard, and the cakes were painted with Moon Palace symbols; men and women worshiped and burned incense. "Tian Rucheng's "West Lake Tour Notes" says: "It's evening, people have a moon-viewing banquet, or they take a boat on Baihu Lake to swim along the sun. On the Su Di, they join hands in singing, just like the daytime"; "People use moon cakes. Inviting each other brings the meaning of reunion." Fucha Dunchong's "Yanjing Years' Notes" said: "The Mid-Autumn Mooncakes are the best in Kyoto from the Qianmen Zhimeizhai, and there is not enough food elsewhere. Moon cakes are available everywhere. The big ones are more than a foot long, and have moon palace wax painted on them. "In the shape of a rabbit." "Every Mid-Autumn Festival, the noble families of the mansion offer moon cakes and fruits. When the fifteenth month comes, they put melons and fruits in the courtyard to offer sacrifices to the moon. This is the time for Hao Po. In the sky, the colorful clouds are beginning to disperse, cups are being washed, and children are making noises. It is truly a festival. Only when the moon is offered, many men do not bow." At the same time, in the past five hundred years, "burning buckets of incense", "walking on the moon" and "walking on the moon" have also been introduced. Festive activities such as "letting sky lanterns", "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "lighting tower lanterns", "dancing fire dragons", "trailing stones", "selling rabbits", etc. Among them, customs such as admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, and having reunion dinners have been spread to today.
Why is the Mid-Autumn Festival called the Mid-Autumn Festival
The fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the old calendar is a traditional festival in my country. The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, and Dragon Boat Festival, are called the fourth festival of the Chinese Han people. The Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a conservative holiday. According to historical records, traditional emperors had rituals of worshiping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The festival of worshiping the moon is on the 15th day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, which happens to be in the middle of the third autumn, hence the name "Mid-Autumn Festival"; and because this festival falls on the Mid-Autumn Festival in autumn, Therefore, it is also called "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Mid-Autumn Festival"; it also has the belief of seeking gatherings and related festivals and customs, so it is also called "Gathering Festival" and "Girls' Day".
Since the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all centered around the "moon", it is also commonly known as "Moon Festival", "Moon Eve", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Moon Playing Festival", and "Worship". "Moon Festival"; in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also called "Duanyue". There are probably three origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival: the traditional emphasis on the moon, the custom of singing and dancing under the moon to find a partner, and the traditional custom of worshiping the land god in the autumn newspaper.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has been a national statutory holiday since 2008.
The state pays special attention to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, the festival was accepted by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival in this paragraph: The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in "The Rites of Zhou". According to my country's traditional calendar, the fifteenth day of Zhongqiu in the old calendar falls in the middle of Zhongqiu in autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". There are four seasons in a year, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. Since the second spring in autumn is called Zhongqiu, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Zhongqiu Festival".
In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there is a record of "ordering the minister to suppress Niu Confusion, and on the Mid-Autumn Festival evening, he arranged to travel incognito across the Yangtze River". It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a permanent festival. "New Book of Tang, Volume 15, Chapter 6, Rites and Music 5" records that "the Mid-Spring and Mid-Autumn Festivals were laid in honor of King Wenxuan and King Wucheng", and "In the 19th year of Kaiyuan, the Taigong Shangfu Temple was built to preserve Marquis Zhang Liangpei offered sacrifices to Wu in the Mid-Spring and Mid-Autumn Festivals, and the system of sacrifice and music was as written."
The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become as famous as New Year's Day and became one of the important festivals in our country. This is also the second largest traditional festival in my country after the Spring Festival.
With the continuous development of society, ancient people have given many legends to the moon, from toads in the middle of the moon to jade rabbits making medicine, from Wu Gang cutting laurels to Chang'e flying to the moon. Their full imagination has painted a picture of the world of Toad Palace. Bizarre places of interest.
From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, literati and scholars have chanted about the moon and the events in the middle of the moon. The mid-autumn and mid-summer periods have become an excellent time to express emotions. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, officials officially designated the fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival as the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was meant to be in the middle of the Three Autumn Festivals. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bright moon is in the sky and the light shines all over the ground. People regard the full moon as a sign of gathering, and the fifteenth day of the Mid-Autumn Festival as a day for friends to gather. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the "Gathering Festival".
The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a grand festival of the year, and it is closely related to the imperial examination. In my country's feudal society, opening up subjects to obtain scholars has always been a major event of special concern to the rulers. The Autumn Palace Competition, which happens once every three years, happens to be held in mid-autumn. With the combination of famous places and excitement, people will regard those who are taking the senior middle school entrance examination as those who win the title in the middle of the month.
Every Mid-Autumn Festival, solemn celebrations must be held, which has become an important custom of the whole society. Mid-Autumn Festival) one.