Moon people reunion: Why do Mid -Autumn Festival reward the moon and eat moon cakes

Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin, September 10th (Reporter Zhou Runjian) It is another Mid -Autumn Festival. On this day, people enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes, talk about the earth, talk about the family, and enjoy the joy of God. Why do I have to enjoy the moon and moon cakes in the Mid -Autumn Festival? Listen to what the experts say.

In the view of Wang Laihua, a collector of mooncake molds and researcher at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, a full moon is full of the infinite expectations of Chinese people for a better life: the full moon is reunited. "The Mid -Autumn Festival Moon Pearl is round and round, full of roundness, which is very consistent with people's longing for happiness, reunion and beautiful." Wang Laihua said.

The customs of the Mid -Autumn Festival viewing the moon are derived from the ancient worship activities of ancient people in my country -autumn and twilight moon, that is, worship the moon god. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the Mid -Autumn Festival was popular. During the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, the Mid -Autumn Festival's customs were still in the Mid -Autumn Festival, and many places also formed fun customs such as the Mid -Autumn Festival, the sky lanterns, and the moon.

"To this day, the serious moon sacrifice has become a relaxed moon. The night of the Mid -Autumn Festival is clear like water, and the moon is like a mirror. People are in the courtyard and platform, while watching the moon and talking, they are also integrated." Wang Laihua Say.

Moon cakes are round like the moon, implying reunion and auspiciousness. Wang Laihua introduced that moon cakes, also known as baked cakes, palace cakes, small cakes, moon dumplings, reunion cakes, etc., are the offerings of the ancient Mid -Autumn Festival worship of the moon god. Mid -Autumn Festival moon cakes can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty, but the moon cakes were not called "moon cakes" at that time; the first record of the name of the "moon cake" was in the Song Dynasty, and the moon cakes were popular in the Mid -Autumn Festival. Su Dongpo has a poem: "The small cakes are chewing the moon, there are crispy and crickets"; in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mid -Autumn Festival ate moon cakes more popular. Since its development, eating moon cakes is already the custom of crossing the Mid -Autumn Festival from north and south of my country.

"The moon circular cakes are reunited, and the meaning of the reunion is already very good. However, the ancients were not satisfied with this, but they wanted to print the beautiful patterns on the moon cakes in order to integrate the auspicious meaning and folklore aesthetics. Among the more than 10,000 pieces of all kinds of moon cake molds, all the auspicious stories, characters, and plots related to the moon are "moved 'to the mold carving, such as the image of Moon Palace, Chang'e, Jade Rabbit, Gui Tree, Chrysanthemum and other images. There is a rich auspicious cultural connotation. "Wang Laihua said.

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