Mid Autumn Festival Folk Custom

The fifteen of August is China's traditional Mid Autumn Festival. All activities revolve around the theme of the moon.

Eat moon cakes, worship the moon, for the rabbit and so on.

The moon was widely admired in the Han Dynasty.

The ancient emperors sacrificed themselves to the sun and sacrificed the moon.

Beijing's moon altar is a building for offering sacrifices to the moon.

The Mid Autumn Festival is the most comfortable season in a year.

Moon cakes are the symbol food of Mid Autumn Festival.

Moon cakes also symbolize family reunion.

This symbol has already begun in Ming Dynasty.

The Mid Autumn Festival is also popular in Mongolia, Hui, Zhuang, Yi, DPRK, Dong and other more than 20 minorities.

Mid Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals of Spring Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid Autumn Festival in China.

The search for the traditional festival culture has certain enlightenment significance to inheriting the fine traditions of Chinese culture, building a harmonious society, and even creating a healthy holiday market atmosphere.

Mid Autumn Festival became a "big festival" in Ming and Qing Dynasties

In the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, just in the middle of autumn, it was called Mid Autumn Festival.

It is night, and the moon is round and bright.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Gao Shi Xie Shang and Yuan Hong, who belonged to Nanjing's Yuzhu (today's quarry), read poems on the river on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival.

In the Song Dynasty, fifteen of August was officially designated as the Mid Autumn Festival.

Ming and Qing Dynasties fell to the Republic of China, and the mid autumn festival became a grand festival.

After liberation, people still enjoy the Mid Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes and eat reunion dinner.

The Mid Autumn Festival is also popular in Mongolia, Hui, Zhuang, Buyi, DPRK, Manchu, Bai, Dong, Tujia, Hani, Li, Lahu, Naxi, Daur, Qiang, Sibo, Ewenki, Yugu, Beijing, Oroqen and Hezhe.

The cultural code of food

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Mid Autumn Festival food first moon cake, its origin is various.

In the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhang Shicheng, the anti yuan uprising leader of Taizhou, Jiangsu (or Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang's counselor), used the message of the Mid Autumn Festival people to give each other a round cake. In the cake, they took the notes of "fifteen nights killing the tartar" in August. They saw the notes in the cake, and passed the ten, ten pass.

In a long period of history, even at the end of the last century, many moon cakes had a small piece of paper on it!

Unfortunately, in recent years, moon cakes are no longer seen in small pieces of paper.

Another saying is that in the early years of Ming Hongwu, general Xu Da took over the Yuan Dynasty most of the Beijing, where the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty had been entrenched. The news was sent to Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang, who was playing chess, was delighted with the mid autumn Festival.

Since then, moon cakes have become a "statutory" food for the Mid Autumn Festival.

During the Republic of China, the moon cake market in Nanjing produced three points for the Cantonese (Su) style, the su (Bang) style and the local (Gang). The Cantonese style stuffing consisted mainly of ham, jujube mud and coconut meat, and the manufacturers headed by Guan Sheng Yuan, followed by Sanxia and Kangyuan.

They used huge advertising campaigns as a means to publish huge advertisements in newspapers, neon lights in windows.

The famous Su Bang manufacturers have small Suzhou, Taiping Village and rice fragrant village. They have quite a Shanghai style in advertising production, and love to make gimmicks. The quality of Suzhou style moon cakes is not inferior to that of Guang Gang, and the price is cheaper than that. Therefore, after the festival, inventory is better than the gang.

The customers of the gang are dignitaries and business giants; the customers of Su Gang are mostly well-off families, while the general public is happy to help them. Although its stuffing is only five kinds of meat, such as meat, meat, salt and salt, two of the more than 100 local snacks shops in the city are also old fashioned. They neither set up windows nor advertise, but they all win customers by quality, honesty and low price.

There is also a unique "Jinling cake" in the moon cakes, which is stacked in different sizes and sizes. The top is decorated with a peach, which is like a pagoda and sold in a complete set.

When Mr. Sun Zhongshan was a temporary president, Zhongmao food store, located in Zhonghua Gate, offered him a cake, and Mr. Zhongshan fell in love with it.

There is also a wonderful flower in the mooncakes.

Legend has it that emperor Qian Long has been in Jiangnan, Liuhe, Kuah temple.

During the Mid Autumn Festival, the abbot monk Lai Yue pupil carefully prepared the ancestral moon cake.

The dragon's face of Emperor Qianlong was very pleased, and it was named "Lai Yue moon cake" for its merits.

In 1984, "Lai Yue moon cake" was awarded the second moon cake evaluation system of Jiangsu supply and marketing cooperative system and exported to Hong Kong and Macao.

The Mid Autumn Festival coincides with the harvest of fruits and fruits. As the festival's offerings to the moon god, there are many cultural symbols: the watermelon symbolizes reunion, the pomegranates symbolize the children and grandchildren, the persimmon symbolizes the auspices, the dates symbolize the early generation, and the chestnut symbolizes the early generation of the sons and daughters, and so on.

But there are cultural taboos, such as "sweet pear is not for the month", because "pear" homophonic "leave", implying disaster, contrary to the meaning of mid autumn reunion.

The climax of the Mid Autumn Festival is the fifteen night of August. The whole family drinks and retreats with meals. This is called "the full moon".

If relatives do not return, a cup of chopsticks will be placed on the table to symbolize family reunion.

In the dishes, the "osmanthus duck" in August is absolutely necessary, followed by roast chicken and chestnut, taro or old chestnut braised pork.

The Qing Dynasty Pan Yuding, "Jinling year old Ji" records: "Mid Autumn Festival to display the fruit, such as the lotus root chestnut persimmon, like a pagoda shaped, add paper bucket, known as" Dou Xiang. "

People worship the moon devoutly, burn the sacred paper, and finally remove the moon cakes, fruits and other offerings. The whole family likes to eat.

"Old Nanjing" also has a "weird" custom: when we worship the moon and admire the moon, in case of "Tian dog swallow moon" - eclipse, then every family knocks Gong, basin and blare firecrackers, which is called "dog driving".

Nanjing folk also have a custom rule: "women do not worship kitchen, men do not worship the moon".

Legend of the moon god