Lu You (Southern Song Dynasty)
I used to hide on the roof and swim at midnight.
Let the moon cross the rainbow, Pian Yu is everywhere.
Smoke boats sound, water and wind blow the fishing line, and if you want to lean on it, you may lose peace.
This year's trip to Qingcheng Mountain, 36 peaks and white clouds fell, making my bones cold.
The sky is like glass, covered with a wet sea of silver.
In the meantime, the vegetation is glorious.
Heng E smiled at me and stroked the Jade Rabbit. Don't complain about the white hair in the world, and the laurel tree in the autumn wind wants no branches.
August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In China's lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "moonlight". On this night, people look up at the bright moon like jade in the sky and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown. In ancient China, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The moon at night is to worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. Put a big incense table, with offerings such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. Watermelon must be cut into lotus shapes. Under the moon, put the moon statue in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family takes turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cuts the reunion moon cakes. The person who cuts the moon cakes has calculated in advance how many people in the whole family, how many people in the family and how many people in other places should be counted together. They can't cut more or less, they have to be the same size. According to legend, the ugly women in ancient Qi had no salt. When she was young, she was very devout to Yue Bai. When she grew up, she entered the palace with superior moral character, but she was not loved. Seeing the moon on August 15th, the son of heaven saw her in the moonlight and thought she was beautiful and outstanding. Later, he made her queen, and Yue Bai came from the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the middle of the moon, Chang 'e is famous for its beauty, so Yue Bai, a young girl, wants to be "like Chang 'e and have a bright moon".
In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Northern Song Dynasty. On the evening of August 15, people in the whole city, rich and poor, old and young, put on adult clothes and burned incense to express their wishes to Yue Bai and pray for the blessing of the moon god. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people gave mooncakes to each other, which meant reunion. There are activities in some places, such as dancing grass dragons and building pagodas. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival has become more popular. Many places have formed special customs such as burning incense, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting tower lanterns, putting sky lanterns, walking on the moon and dancing dragons.
Nowadays, the custom of playing under the moon is far less popular than in the old days. However, feasting and enjoying the moon are still very popular. People drink alcohol in the middle of the moon to celebrate a better life, or wish their distant relatives health and happiness and spend a good time with their families.
There are many customs and forms of Mid-Autumn Festival, but all of them are entrusted with people's infinite love for life and yearning for a better life. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has entrusted people with sincere homesickness. Wanderers in the distance, no matter how far they get together, will return to their hometown on the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon night. Reunion, harmony and a long history of China traditional culture have long been rooted in the blood of every Chinese descendant.
Mid-Autumn Festival wouldn't be such a special day if it weren't for the thousand-year memory and lingering home in my heart. This year's Mid-Autumn Festival coincides with the National Day holiday. The merger of the two festivals makes people far away from home no longer have to worry, and the road home can be more leisurely. The family sat around the square table, sipping tea and enjoying the moon. Under the bright starry sky, deep feelings will quietly flow away with the clear moonlight ... what kind of sweetness can be better than reunion?
Home is the origin of life and the destination of emotion. The attachment and care for the family has also achieved the strong cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation. "National Day" and "Mid-Autumn Festival" meet, and this year's full moon night naturally contains special significance. Reunion and harmony, harmony and glory-the declaration condensed in the historical pulse of China is a prayer for peace all over the world under the same sky.
Remember the 60 fireworks and pigeons flying with wings on National Day night? On the same full moon night, let these little creatures, who symbolize harmony, send our sincere prayers to every inch of the land where the moonlight shines: I wish the people's "small" families peace and well-being, and wish the "big" families of the motherland prosperity and strength ... Every Mid-Autumn night, the bright moon hangs high and Yin Hui is scattered all over the ground. Scholars in the history have left countless poems and songs praising the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the sea of ancient poems in Wang Yang, we pick a few poems and feel the unique charm of Mid-Autumn Festival. "Even the sea level spring tide, the bright moon * * * tide at sea. With the waves thousands of miles away, where there is no bright moon by the river? "A Moonlit Night on the Spring River written by Zhang, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, is a classic. The poet integrated the beautiful, profound and touching feelings and philosophical thinking about life in Moonlight by the River into the poetic mood without trace. But its language is fresh and lively, its syllables are smooth and smooth, its feelings are strong and touching, its scenery is swaying, its theme is very philosophical and its artistic conception is perfect. Su Dongpo, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote a famous sentence about the Mid-Autumn Festival, in which "people have joys and sorrows, and the moon is full of rain and shine, and it is difficult to be complete in ancient times." "I hope that people will live for a long time and have a good scenery for thousands of miles." It has been handed down from generation to generation. Su Dongpo wrote this word after drinking all night on Mid-Autumn Festival night in Xining, Song Shenzong. In a romantic way, the author shows the wonders of the Mid-Autumn Moon Palace by imagining problems, and uses natural phenomena to relieve his grief and hate, pinning his good wishes on life, which has become the most artistic and widely circulated poem in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the writings of ancient poets, the moon has always been a symbol of brightness, purity and beauty. But facing the bright moon, the feelings expressed will vary from person to person, from place to place and from time to time. A long time ago, when Dayu was hunting in the mountains, he met Chang 'e under a laurel tree, and they got married through the laurel tree.
In the era of Emperor Yao, there were ten suns in the sky, which scorched crops and plants and killed people. At the same time, demons and ghosts such as anger, tooth digging, nine babies, strong winds, lookouts, snake repair, etc. have also begun to harm the people. So Emperor Yao ordered Da Yi to bite his teeth to death in the wilderness of China, kill Nine Babies in the fierce water, defeat the strong wind in the clear autumn, shoot off the redundant sun in the sky, kill snakes in Dongting and catch seals in mulberry trees. All the people rejoiced and supported Yao as the son of heaven.
Later, Dayi got the elixir from the Queen Mother of the West and gave it to Chang 'e for safekeeping. When Feng Meng heard about it, he stole it. Stealing it didn't hurt Chang 'e, but in desperation, Chang 'e swallowed the elixir and flew to the sky. Because she couldn't bear to leave the village, Chang 'e stayed in the Moon Palace. Lonely in the Guanghan Palace, he urged WU GANG to cut down the osmanthus tree and let Yutu pound medicine, hoping to make it a soaring medicine, so that he could return to the world as soon as possible and reunite with Dayu.
When my aunt heard that E had gone to the moon, she was in great pain. Mother Moon was moved by their sincerity, so she allowed Chang 'e to meet her aunt under the laurel tree at the lower bound of the full moon every year. It is said that many villagers have heard of Da Yi and Chang 'e whispering under the laurel tree.