The poems recited during the Mid-Autumn Festival are as follows:
1. The bright moon hangs in the autumn sky, moistened by the dew. ——Meng Haoran's "Autumn Night and Under the Moon".
2. Where the blue smoke shines, the golden mirror flies over the blue sea. ——Chao Buzhi's "Dongxian Song·Sizhou Mid-Autumn Festival".
3. The dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in the countryside. ——Du Fu's "Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night".
4. The frost in the field shines, the osmanthus in the river is wet, and the curling stones reflect each other. ——Shi Dazu's "Qitianle·Mid-Autumn Festival Stay at Zhendingyi".
5. This life and this night will not last long. Where can I see the bright moon next year? ——Su Shi's "Mid-Autumn Moon"
Knowledge expansion:
1. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival
The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in my country. It is also the second largest traditional festival in my country after the Spring Festival. August 15th is right in the middle of autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The ancient Chinese calendar called August, which is in the middle of autumn, "Zhongqiu", so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Zhongqiu Festival".
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is bright and clear. The ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion. Therefore, August 15th is also called the "Reunion Festival". Throughout the ages, people have often used the terms "full moon" and "waning moon" to describe "joys and sorrows", and wanderers living in foreign lands use the moon to express their deep feelings.
Li Bai, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote "Looking up at the bright moon, looking down at my hometown", Du Fu's "The dew is white tonight, the moon is bright in my hometown", and Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty wrote "The spring breeze is green again on the south bank of the river, when will the bright moon shine?" Poems such as "I will return the favor" are all eternal masterpieces.
2. Mid-Autumn Festival customs
Sacrificing the moon and admiring the moon is an important custom of the festival. Ancient emperors had a social system of worshiping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn, and people also had the custom of worshiping the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, appreciating the moon became more important than worshiping the moon, and serious sacrifices turned into relaxed entertainment.
The custom of appreciating the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival peaked in the Tang Dynasty. Many poets included poems praising the moon in their famous works. In the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the activities of worshiping and appreciating the moon among the court and the people became more extensive. ?
There are many historic sites such as "Moon Worship Altar", "Moon Worship Pavilion" and "Moon Watching Tower" remaining in various parts of our country. The "Altar of the Moon" in Beijing was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty for the royal family to worship the moon.
Whenever the moon rises during the Mid-Autumn Festival, a table is set up in the open air, and moon cakes, pomegranates, dates and other fruits are offered on the table. After worshiping the moon, the whole family sits around the table and talks while eating.* **Appreciate the bright moon. Nowadays, the activities of worshiping and worshiping the moon have been replaced by large-scale and colorful mass moon-viewing recreational activities.
Eating moon cakes is another custom of the festival. Moon cakes symbolize reunion. The production of mooncakes has become more and more sophisticated since the Tang Dynasty.
Su Dongpo wrote in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispness and sweetness in the middle." Yang Guangfu of the Qing Dynasty wrote: "Moon cakes are full of peach meat fillings, and ice cream is sweet with cane sugar frosting." It seems that the mooncakes at that time are quite similar to those now.