Why do we want to enjoy the moon on the Mid -Autumn Festival night

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For example, Zhang Ruoxu sighed in "Spring River Flower Moon Night", "Life is endless, and Jiangyue looks similar." It is also about Qu Yuan's question in "Ask": "The night light is He virtue, but the death is to be born?"

The moon is full of shade. And its yin and clear circles are cyclical. "Repeated week, reappeared from losses", and then "similar year", "the moon is similar".

So why did the ancients choose the Mid -Autumn Festival on the Mid -Autumn Festival?

▲ Southern Song Ma Yuan's "Moon Moon" Tianjin Museum Collection

It is generally believed that the customs of the Mid -Autumn Festival in my country originated from the worship of heaven, and evolved from the customs of "autumn evening sacrifice" in ancient times.

In the "Book of Rites" in the Warring States Period, it was mentioned: "Tianzichun Asahi, autumn and evening moon.

The "Chao" and "Xi" here are verbs, both of which mean sacrifice. That is, Zhou Tianzi sacrifice the day on the day of the spring equinox, and the moon sacrifice the moon on the autumn equinox.

▲ The word "month" in Oracle, Jinwen, Xiaoyan, Lishu, and Kaishu

Spring equinox and autumnal equinox, day and night equality. The ancients believed that the sacrifice to the sun and the moon at this time was particularly meaningful. So on the early morning day of the spring equinox, worshiped the moon on the night of the autumn equinox. The custom of the Mid -Autumn Festival comes from this.

In addition to the root of "Autumn Festival Festival Moon", it is indeed a season when the moon is more beautiful and more suitable for watching before and after the Mid -Autumn Festival.

▲ Ming Zhang Road (Biography) "Picking the Laughing Moon" Flier Art Museum Collection

The Mid -Autumn Festival is approaching the autumn equinox. In the season-

Every year in the autumnal equinox, warm and humid air retreats, and dry and cold air comes. The arrival of autumn wind reduces the water vapor content of air. Therefore, the clouds in the sky decreased, showing a clear feeling.

In this season, the waters are missing, and the moon in the night sky will naturally look particularly clear.

In astronomical--

In the autumnal equinox, the sun is directly shot in the equator, the day and night are divided, and the day and night are equal. Although the Mid -Autumn Festival may not be on the day of the autumn equinox, it was not a few days before and after.

At this time, the moon was running over the Earth equator, closest to the earth, in the direction of the east, it just accepted the direct radiation of the sun in the direction of the west.

The moon receives more sunlight, and then reflects more sunlight, so it is brighter.

In addition, according to the traditional Chinese aesthetics, the moon around the Mid -Autumn Festival is the most "positive" of the year -the moon rises from the east, and the west is hanging in the west.

Therefore, the Mid -Autumn Festival was called "Duan Zhengyue" by the ancients.

The Mid -Autumn Festival was officially set as a festival in the Song Dynasty. However, there was a saying of Mid -Autumn Festival at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty- "Tang Shu · Taizong Ji" recorded: "August 15th Mid -Autumn Festival", but the Mid -Autumn Festival was not a legal festival at that time.

After the Mid -Autumn Festival was established as a legal festival in the Song Dynasty, Mid -Autumn Festival as a "festival" festive atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic.

The Mid -Autumn Festival Night of the Song Dynasty can be said to be a carnival night. The night market was open overnight, and tourists were endless. "Tokyo Menghua Record" records the grand occasion of the Mid -Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty:

"Before the Mid -Autumn Festival, all the shops sold new wines, Guijia decorations, Terrace, people competed to occupy the restaurant to play, Sheng Ge heard thousands of miles away, and sat down to Xiao."

▲ Southern Song Ma Lin's "Tower Night Moon Map" Shanghai Museum Collection

After the Song Dynasty, the Mid -Autumn Festival was gradually given the meaning of "two -month people".

Various celebration activities of the people are rich and lively, with regional characteristics. Moon watching is no longer the only highlight of the Mid -Autumn Festival.

▲ Yuan Na Na "Xiangyue Chaoyin Map" Liaoning Provincial Museum Collection

There are incense cases, worship the moon gods, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, appreciating osmanthus, drinking cinnamon wine ... there are customs in some areas in the south. In Xiamen, there is also a "Mid -Autumn Festival Cake" game in the Mid -Autumn Festival.

▲ Mid -Autumn Festival Burning Tower in Chaoshan pray for blessings

In some areas of Jinzhong, Mid -Autumn Festival should eat "Moon Ming Food". A "folk moon god" was even born in Beijing: Grandpa.

Wearing a big red robe, it seemed like a mighty general. The mounts under the mounts were tigers, lions, elephants, or unicorn and other Swiss beasts, which were very festive.

▲ Riding Tiger Rabbit

From worship to the moon to enjoying the moon, from the worship of Tianxiang to the symbol of reunion, the passage of time, the customs change ...

In the middle of the middle of the autumn, the golden light was swinging in the night in the night. The feeling of "the world at this time" in the ancient poems has been consistent.

▲ "Songyue Map" Song Anonymous Taipei Palace Museum Collection

Tonight, everyone will look at people and wish you a happy month.

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