The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019 will begin on September 13 (Friday) to September 15. This is the statutory festival in China and the second most important traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Festival, Chasing Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Daughter’s Day or Reunion Festival, is popular in many ethnic groups and Chinese cultural circles in China. The traditional cultural festivals of the countries are on the 15th day of the lunar calendar. Because of its half-autumn, it is also known that some places will set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.
The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. By the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals with the same name as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for some Chinese in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. On May 20, 2006, the State Council was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
It traditionally falls on the 15th day of the 8th month (Full Moon Day) of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. The common custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival includes dinner with family members, like a Thanksgiving dinner, sharing mooncakes, offering gifts for the moon, displaying lanterns and regional events. Moon cake is an essential Mid-Autumn food in China, rich in flavor. They are a kind of baked dessert, usually served with tea. Most are filled with lotus seeds and salted egg yolks, while others contain red beans or jujubes, as well as fruits, nuts and seeds.
Beautiful legend – Change benyue
In ancient times, there were ten days in the sky at the same time. The sun burned the crops and the people died. The hero named Hou Hou was infinite. He sympathized with the suffering people, opened the bow of the gods, shot nine more suns and ordered the last. A sun rises and falls on time to benefit the people. The name of his wife is change. After the slaying of the art hunting, he was with his wife all day long. Many of the philosophers came to the field to study and learn, and Peng Meng, who had a bad heart, also came in.
One day, I went to Kunlun Mountain to visit my friend and ask for a pack of undead medicine. It is said thatTake this medicine and you can immediately ascend to heaven. However, he was not allowed to leave his wife and temporarily hand over the undead medicine to the change collector. change Put the medicine in the treasurer of the dressing table. Three days later, the Houyi rate went out to hunt, and the ghosts of the ghosts pretended to be sick and did not go out. Shortly after the squatting rate, Peng Meng took the sword into the backyard of the house, and forced him to surrender the undead medicine. I know that I am not a phoenix opponent. When she was in danger, she turned to open the treasure, and took out the undead medicine and swallowed it. Change swallowed the medicine, and the body immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew to the sky. As he was worried about his husband, he flew to the moon closest to the world and became a fairy.
In the evening, after returning home, the maids cried out what happened during the day. After the stunned and angry, the sword was used to kill the wicked, Peng Meng had already escaped, and then suffocated his chest, grief, looking up at the night sky, then he found that today’s moon is extraordinarily bright and bright, and there is a The shaking figure looks like a sly. After he missed his wife, he sent someone to the favorite back garden, put on the incense case, put on the fresh fruit that he liked to eat, and sacrificed it in the moon palace. After the people heard the news of the moon and the moon, they set up a fragrant case under the moon and prayed for good fortune to the kindness. Since then, the custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival to worship the moon has spread in the private sector.
Post time: Sep-12-2019