Myth Of Mid Autumn Festival

We regard the Mid Autumn Festival as a reunion festival.

Moon cakes were already in the Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty was already luxurious. The records of Hangzhou Prefecture in the Wanli period in the Ming Dynasty were recorded. By the Tang Dynasty, the habit of watching the moon was very popular.

Enjoying the moon is different from offering sacrifices to the moon. Enjoying the moon is appreciation. Moon The moon in the sky is pretty good. Let's take a look. Bai Juyi has a poem: the crescent color in 35 nights, the one thousand years old thinking. 35 refers to fifteen, fifteen, the night of the moon is very new, after seeing this moon, I thought of thousands of miles away family and friends. This is what is very popular at that time. Su Dongpo also has a word called "water melody singing head": people have joys and sorrows, the moon is full of ups and downs. This is hard to find. Therefore, Mid Autumn Festival is often the time to miss family members. It looks like a beautiful moon in the sky. It's not that the moon is beautiful or not, but that it's a friend or family member.

So as time passes, people regard the Mid Autumn Festival as a reunion Festival, some places even call it a reunion festival.

Another famous legend in the Tang Dynasty was Tang Minghuang's visit to the Moon Palace. In the Mid Autumn Festival, Tang Ming emperor saw that the scenery in Changan was so good that he suddenly thought of going to play in the palace. At that time, there was a wizard who took Tang Minghuang to a circle in the Moon Palace. Tang Minghuang saw the maiden dancing and singing, and recorded the music. This is, of course, just a myth.

In the Song Dynasty, the Mid Autumn Festival was already very active. Wu Zimu's Meng Liang Lu records how Ling'an passed the Mid Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty: Wang sun Tzi, the rich family room, not to climb the dangerous building, to play the moon on the side of the Xuan, or to go to the pavilion of the wide Pavilion. As for the family, a small platform is also arranged for family banquet, and the children will be paid for the festival. Although the poor streets of the poor people, Jie Yi City wine, reluctantly welcome, do not want to idle away the night. That is to say, in the Southern Song Dynasty, Ling'an is also today's Hangzhou. The rich people are drinking and watching the moon during the Mid Autumn Festival. The poor also want to celebrate the festival. That day, the day street business is up to five drums. Tian Jie is today's Zhongshan South Road, the Southern Song Yu Street. By the time of the Ming Dynasty, the Mid Autumn Festival was transferred to West Lake. Then Su Causeway It's already very busy.

Myths and legends add imagination to the moon.

Mid Autumn Festival is actually a movement rule of the moon. Soon the moon was full and the moon was short. Why is the moon round and lacking? Today we all know the secret. But if it is only the movement of the planets, it is inanimate, without emotion, and without stories. Once they become myths and legends, they become flesh and blood.

Our ancestors exchange their emotions mainly by telling stories. There are stories about places where there are people, and there are many stories about the moon.

What is the earliest moon myths and legends? We are all familiar with it. Chang'e In the story of the moon, Chang'e rushes to the moon and connects with Yi. Chang'e's husband is Hou Yi, a hero. In ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky. Hou Yi took the bow and arrow to shoot the sun, and shot down nine suns, leaving one, so the days on earth were better. Hou Yi is a hero, but there is also a drawback - his relationship with his wife is not very good, because he is busy all day outside, and the sun is left out in addition to shooting the sun and shooting some wild animals that harm the common people. Chang'e was unhappy in heart. She knew that Hou Yi had something very good in her hand, called the undead medicine, which was given by the queen mother of the West. Chang e steals the undead medicine while Hou Yi is not at home. As a result, she becomes lighter and lighter and floats into the moon. Chang'e regretted in the moon, because she was alone in the moon, and there was a rabbit that she brought with herself. So there is a rabbit inside the moon.

This myth first appeared in the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, there was a book called Huainan Zi, which recorded the story in ten or twenty words. This story has been discussed many times since its birth. Some people say that Chang E is very great. Some people say that Chang'e is really wrong. So far, we can still discuss whether Chang'e should go to the moon.

In short, with this legend, there is much room for imagination in the moon. There was nothing in the moon, and now it is wrong. We see that there is a Chang'e and a rabbit in the moon. Then we imagine that the world will be enriched.