Lile and Music Shandong ｜ Linyi: [The Wind of the Water] -The non -legacy of the Mid -Autumn Festival

August 15th Mid -Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in China. Mid -Autumn Festival is also known as Zhongqiu and Reunion Festival. The Mid -Autumn Festival is legitimate, and the sun is directly on the side of the earth. The autumn is high and refreshing. According to historical records, the term "Mid -Autumn Festival" first appeared in the book "Zhou Li". It was not until the beginning of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid -Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. There are also myths and legends about "Month", linking Chang'e to the moon with the Mid -Autumn Festival, adding a layer of humanized romantic colors to the Mid -Autumn Festival. "Tang Shu · Tai Zong Ji" records "August 15th Mid -Autumn Festival". The popularity of the Mid -Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty. Until modern times, the Mid -Autumn Festival has become the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. Since 2008, the Mid -Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday.

Traditions

Moon appreciation

The Mid -Autumn Festival is also called the reunion festival, which means that the family and the young are reunited together, and the fifteenth moon is full. The family was sitting in the yard, eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon, and enjoying affection.

"August in August, the Mid -Autumn Festival moon cake is sweet and sweet." Eating moon cakes in the Mid -Autumn Festival, like dumplings and dumplings in the Dragon Boat Festival, are the traditional customs of my country's folk. Moon cakes have a long history in our country. According to legend, one year of Mid -Autumn Festival, Tang Xuanzong and Yang Guifei enjoyed the moon to eat cakes. Tang Xuanzong suspected that the "cake" was not nice. Yang Guifei looked up and saw the bright moon, and raised the "moon cake". Since then, the name of "moon cake" has gradually spread in the people.

Moon cake

The custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid -Autumn Festival has a long history. In the past, most of the meringue moon cakes were eaten. The fillings containing were five kernels, rock sugar, bean paste, jujube mud, etc. This moon cake crispy, crispy, layer of crisp, oil but not greasy, sweet and salty. There are also Cantonese -style moon cakes. In addition to the above, the filling also has various fruit fillings. This moon cake is thin, soft, sweet, and full of filling, but it is slightly greasy for the north.

In rural areas, quite a few farmers like self -made moon cakes, which are beautiful and affordable. It is called "Zhuanghu moon cake". Use fine white noodles and noodles, rub it into the fried peanut noodles, and then mix a small amount of rock sugar to make moon cakes and put them in a pan and bake them. This moon cake is crispy and sweet, with a strong hometown flavor.

Wearing a yellow horse gown

Lintong people pass the Mid -Autumn Festival, and there is a custom, that is, wearing a "yellow horse gown" before the five -year -old child before the Mid -Autumn Festival. It is said that children who pass through the "yellow horse gown" can support them. A few days before and after the autumn equinox each year, the women in the family would pull a yellow cloth, cut it, and sewn the gown according to the size of the child's head. Some of them will also use light blue cloth strips. After the gown is ready, dip the ink with a pen, draw a bowl of the size of the size of the mouth in the front chest and back position, and then write "Jiaotian Amnesty" in the front circle. "A few words. However, with the development of the times, few people did it again, and this custom gradually disappeared.

——In "Lintong Memory"

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