Lunar August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival.
This is people have been hailed as the most humane, the most poetic of a holiday. Have said that their loved ones during the festive season. Mid-Autumn Festival that this is a miss, of course would be more profound, particularly in a high-hanging moon moment.
The reason is the Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival, is attributable to the Lunar day is August 15 in San-Qiu system. This exceptionally bright full moon on a daily special and particularly the round, so this day is also regarded as a big match marriage a good day.
Speaking of Mid-Autumn Festival source People have been circulating a number of different legends and fairy tales. Among them Mother Goose, Chu Yuan-chang moon cake uprising, moon and other stories of the Tang emperor tour.
The most familiar of course, Moon, Chang'e stole her husband Hou Yi's alive panacea, flew to the moon there are several versions of the story. In earlier records, the Chang'e eating a Xianyao into a toad, was crying on fine.
Ben months later, the Chang'e moon live in is a lonely place, in addition to a laurel and a rabbit, it nothing else. But there is another saying is that in the Moon Palace where there is a person named Wu Gang.
Yu Tang emperor palace, the emperor of the Tang emperor as saying that your very right Chang'e obsession. One day he was on the moon, in the palace saw a rabbit and a group of singing and dancing of the fairies.
The emperor to overthrow the Mongols, the successful establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in the folk legend is depends on moon cake as a communications tool. The emperor to take the lead for justice, the note stuffed inside each moon cake stuffing, calling everyone on time uprising.
The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, one theory is: August 15 lunar day happens to be the moment of rice mature, individual all thanks to the land God. Mid-Autumn Festival is probably the Autumn of the relic.
In the autumn, in addition to worship, there is the moon cake and festive lanterns. Worship, of course, in heaven Chang, but also called her Bright Moon. Old people said, a child can not hand pointed the moon, or else will be cut off ear
Today, the original intent of Mid-Autumn Festival has also been not many people know, for the new generation who will most remember is the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cake and lanterns. Of course, the full moon in the sky of the festival is that people are a big reunion a good day.
The Legend of Mid-Autumn Festival
According to legend, in ancient time, the sky appeared in 10 the sun baked the earth smoke, water depletion, the people can not watch live regeneration. This incident alerted of a hero named Hou Yi, who boarded the Kunlun Peak, hiking god, God opened bow, breath down the nine extra sun, veering from it in the rescue people. Soon, Hou Yi married a beautiful wife, called Chang.
One day, Hou Yi to the Kunlun Mountains and friends seeking the correct path, the Queen Mother after this chance encounter, they would seek a package the elixir of life Queen Mother is said that the drug dose can be immediately ascend to heaven immortality, however, Hou Yi could not bear dropped his wife, had to Chang will be the elixir of life to the collection.
Unexpectedly, the matter was of Menke Peng Meng Hou Yi to see, such as Peng Meng Chang Hou Yi to go out after coercion to produce the elixir of life, Peng Meng, Chang know that not rivals, when the critical decisive, remove a swallowed the elixir of life. Chang'e swallowed the medicine, the body immediately left the ground and flew to the sky, as Chang worried about her husband, then flowing down to the moon from the earth into the nearest cents.
Hou Yi returned, the maid had cried all. After the hysteria of differences and look to the night sky calling the name of his beloved wife, when she was surprised to find that special circle the moon this evening, in particular bringing a bright, but there is shaking figure resembles Chang. Houyi Mangming were put on the incense table, put Chang's favorite honey eating fresh fruit, Yao Ji Chang-ri in the Moon Palace. The people who had heard about the immortality of the Shaw Moon interest abroad, are now put on the incense table in the next month, to pray for good luck Ping Chang 9. Since then, Mid-Autumn Festival thanks to the custom of the people on the spread.
