Chinanews client, Beijing, September 21st (Reporter Shangguanyun) It is the Mid-Autumn Festival again.
The debut of the new valley and the harvest of fruits and melons have given various auspicious meanings to this popular traditional festival.
It is a reunion festival, a romantic festival, and a festival full of thoughts.
What kind of blessings will you send to your relatives and friends?
Data map: Previously, the Mid-Autumn Moon was taken in Beihai Park, Beijing.
Photo by Tian Yuhao, China News Agency reporter
The moon is full in the sky, and half a month in the world
The Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history.
It is said that its origin may be related to agricultural production.
In autumn, various crops mature one after another, and people think of celebrating a good harvest one day, and slowly, Mid-Autumn Festival has become a festival.
As the so-called "Autumn Evening and Evening Moon", after the harvest, people set up incense tables to welcome the cold and worship the moon, praying for a good harvest in the coming year.
The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" probably first appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu's "Meng Liang Lu", "The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th is just half of the three-autumn festival, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Long ago, it was a happy holiday.
Meng Yuan’s "Tokyo Dream Hualu" said: "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, your family will decorate the table and pavilions, and the folks will vie for the restaurant to play the moon." People drink, eat crabs and fresh fruits, and "Children in Luxi play in the evening."
This is also a warm holiday.
"Xihu Touring Zhihui" records: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, and the folks use moon cakes as a legacy to take the meaning of reunion." In the Mid-Autumn Festival customs of Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, there was also "divided teeth must be carved on the wrong side." Like a lotus".
The moon in memory
Worshiping the moon, admiring the moon... In various images related to the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon can probably be counted as a C position.
Data map: A full moon hung over Nanjing to "dress up" the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Bo
People have given it countless beautiful legends, such as Chang'e, Laurel, Golden Toad, Guanghan Palace... It also has many titles such as Gui Po, Jade Hook, Jade Mirror, and Ice Mirror.
For the literati, the moon can bring boundless imagination, and it can also trigger endless philosophical thoughts.
Li Bai once wrote, "There is a pot of wine in the flower room, and there is no blind date for a drink alone. A toast to invite the bright moon, and the shadows become three people."
For families, the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival represents a kind of expectation.
Every August 15th, an incense table is placed in the courtyard, and the offerings are displayed. The whole family worships the moon in turn, and the housewife cuts the moon cakes and distributes them to everyone, praying for blessings.
The moon at this time is an indispensable cultural symbol, infiltrating the joy and miss of ordinary people.
Reunion, family harmony
"Everyone has a hometown, and everyone's hometown has a moon." A bright moon reflects the homesickness and the desire for family harmony.
Data map: September 24, 2018, Beijing, a bright moon was in the sky, and the moon was round on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhai Lu
During the Mid-Autumn Festival when I was young, I always brought a little novelty: moon cakes are suitable for the occasion, and there are all kinds of rare candies and pastries.
At night, looking up at the osmanthus in the moon, drinking a cup of sweet-scented osmanthus honey wine, the intoxicating atmosphere is the family gathering.
Or, there are children happily carrying lanterns and humming songs from the street to the end of the alley.
In some places, people will make colored lanterns into the shapes of birds, animals, fish and insects. Candles are burned in the lights, tied to bamboo poles with ropes, and erected on tile eaves or terraces.
As night falls, the city is lit up like stars, as if competing with the bright moon, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Tree".
As an adult, I have traveled through many places and experienced many twists and turns, and may no longer look forward to the Mid-Autumn Festival food and simple games, but no matter how rushed, this festival can soothe the rough heart. Just like the moon in my hometown.
Data map: A mouthful of handmade moon cakes are full of mellow fragrance, with rusticity and a long aftertaste.
Gao Zhanshe
Reunion and family harmony are the simple and lasting wishes of the Chinese people.
Reunion can finally be expected
Time flies, the mood of the Mid-Autumn Festival may change, and the inheritance and persistence have not changed.
"People have joys and sorrows, and the moon is cloudy and clear."
The moon is like life, and life is like a journey. Gathering and separation is too common. Perhaps once we went away, perhaps we had some regrets. The Mid-Autumn Reunion Festival, a lot of hard work, was relieved for a while.
However, every Mid-Autumn Festival, some people will choose to stick to their posts, and some will fight in a foreign country for their ideals and cannot be reunited with their families.
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moonlight was bright and bright, and the longing and ardent hopes of those who left home turned into the deepest concern.
The gathering and dispersing are sometimes, but reunion is finally possible.
No matter where you are and what kind of life you are living, don't forget to send blessings on the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is happiness if someone is thinking about or being missed.
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