This is a festival that people have always described as the most human touch and the most poetic and picturesque.

It is said that every time we celebrate the festival, we think twice.

This yearning for the Mid Autumn Festival will certainly be more profound, especially for a bright moon.

The reason for the Mid Autumn Festival is the Mid Autumn Festival in the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar.

On this day, the moon in the sky is exceptionally bright, especially large and special, so this day is also regarded as a great day to match marriage.

Speaking of the source of the Mid Autumn Festival, there are many different legends and myths in the bookshops.

Among them are Chang moth running to the moon, Zhu Yuanzhang moon cake uprising, and Tang Minghuang traveling to the Moon Palace.

The most familiar thing is Chang'e running to the moon. Chang E has stolen the immortal elixir of husband Hou Yi. There are also many versions of the story running to the Moon Palace.

In the earlier record, Chang E steals the elixir and becomes a toad, called the moon essence.

After the moon, Chang'e's Moon Palace is actually a lonely place, except for a cinnamon tree and a rabbit.

But there is another saying that there is also a man named Wu Gang in the palace.

Tang Minghuang travels in the Moon Palace, saying that Tang Minghuang, the precious son of heaven, is very obsessed with Chang'e.

One day he went to the Moon Palace and saw a jade rabbit and a group of fairies who could sing and dance in the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang successfully overthrew the Mongols and established the Ming Dynasty. In folk legends, they rely on moon cakes as a means of communication.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the lead to take the meaning and put the note in the stuffing of every moon cake, calling for the people to revolt in accordance with the times.

One of the origins of the Mid Autumn Festival is that the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar is a time when rice is ripe.

Mid Autumn Festival may be the custom of autumn newspaper.

During the Mid Autumn Festival, there are also moon cakes and lanterns for festival.

Of course, the worship of Chang'e in heaven is also called her "moon mother".

The old man said that a child should not point to the moon with his fingers, or he will be cut off.

To this day, the original intention of the Mid Autumn Festival has not been known by many people. For the new generation, the most memorable Mid Autumn Festival is moon cakes and lanterns.

Of course, a full moon is a great day for people to reunite.

The legend of Mid Autumn Festival

According to legend, in ancient times, ten suns appeared in the sky. The earth was smoked and the sea dried up. People could not live any longer.

This incident stirred up a hero named Hou Yi. He boarded the peak of Kunlun, the magic of hiking, opened the bow of the gods, and at one fell fell nine extra SUNS to save the people in the water and fire.

Soon, Hou Yi married a beautiful wife called Chang'e.

One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountains to visit her friends and asked for a chance. He met the queen mother who had passed by, and then asked the queen mother to get a package of undead medicine. It was persuaded that the medicine could instantly ascend into heaven, but Hou Yi could not bear to leave his wife.

Unexpectedly, it was seen by Peng Meng, a guest of Hou Yi, that after Hou Yi had gone out, he would force chang e to give up the undead medicine. Chang e knew that he was not an opponent of Peng Meng. When he was in a critical moment, he decided to take the undead medicine and swallow it.

Chang'e swallowed the medicine, and the body flew away from the ground and flew to the sky. Because chang e worried about her husband, he flew to the nearest moon on the earth and became a fairy.

When Hou Yi came back, the maids cried.

When she felt sad, she looked up at the night sky to call her wife's name. At this time, she was surprised to find that the moon was very round and bright, and there was a rocking figure like Chang'e.

Hou Yi was busy with life, putting on the fragrant incense, putting Chang'e's favorite honey and fresh fruit, and offering a long sacrifice to Chang'e in the Moon Palace.

When the people heard that the Chang'e flew to the moon and became immortal, they placed incense sticks on the moon and prayed for good luck and peace to the good nine.

Since then, the custom of the Mid Autumn Festival has spread among the people.