● As the saying goes, "Mid-autumn moon is over half, and a week is afraid of Wednesday." It means that as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the day of "year-end accounting" is coming, so we should hurry up and finish what we should do this year.
● "Dim Sum, Dim Sum" is just a point, not seeking luxury, but focusing on family. The luxurious packaging of moon cakes does not conform to the original intention of "dim sum".
● The Mid-Autumn Festival is a witness to the psychological course of the Chinese nation's longing for unity and unity, and it is the spiritual power and intellectual resource of the Chinese nation's identity, communication, cohesion and development.
Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival that combines human emotions with natural phenomena most closely, and it is also one of the traditional festivals with the richest display of national culture. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of the moon in ancient times, but it was not on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, but on the autumnal equinox. Sacrificing the moon at the vernal equinox is the patent of the emperor's ruler, and celebrating the harvest in August and a half is a happy move for ordinary people. The two complement each other and grow in love over time. Every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the round moon evokes the poet's reverie, and the working people's appreciation of the moon is immersed in the joy of harvest, thus enriching the celebration content. In the Tang Dynasty, the upsurge of enjoying and playing with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed, and it was influenced by literati to the people. In the Song Dynasty, the worship and appreciation of the moon were unified, forming a folk festival with the content of ancestor worship and reunion at the full moon on August 15, which was officially named Mid-Autumn Festival, but there are still some folk names such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival and Daughter's Day. The formation of Mid-Autumn Festival is a great creation of ancient people. After thousands of years of cultural accumulation, the folk customs of this festival are constantly enriched, and it has become a "reunion festival" integrating Yue Bai, enjoying the moon, celebrating the harvest, making great achievements in imperial examinations, praying for marriage and childbearing, close social contacts and family reunion. It occupies an extremely important position in the time life of China people, and it is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. Before the arrival of the first National Cultural Heritage Day this year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day and Double Ninth Festival, was listed as a protected project in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list published by the State Council, which was welcomed by people of all ethnic groups in China.
The first feature of Mid-Autumn Festival is its strong folk custom. Festivals are people's emotional sustenance, and the main folk customs (such as eating moon cakes) are not afraid of repetition, heartfelt and open behaviors. The moon cake is shaped like a full moon, which combines many pastry making methods of Han, Uygur, Tibetan, Manchu and Mongolian. The ancient cake-making industry respected Xuan Di as the god of cake-making, which is a portrayal of this integration process. The anthropomorphic rabbit clay figurines placed in Beijing during the Ming and Qing Dynasties are not only gods for worship, but also children's dolls with strong timeliness, which embodies the relaxed and happy atmosphere of celebrating the harvest. Yi dance's "A Leaping Moon" and Mongolian song "Aobaohui" are typical songs and dances with carnival and men's and women's parties. This year, the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival held in Longtan Park in Beijing and the temple fair held in Guwanping County of Fengtai both reflected the festival connotation of the Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the harvest.
The second feature of Mid-Autumn Festival is romantic and lyrical. People in China regard the moon as a mythical world, with men (WU GANG), women (Chang 'e), plants (osmanthus trees), animals (jade rabbits), palaces (Guanghan Palace) and stories. The moon is a fairyland and a blue mirror related to everyone's happiness. The moon is a friend of human beings and can communicate with people's hearts. "I drank a pot of wine from the flowers alone." No one accompanied me until I raised my cup, and I asked the bright moon to bring me my shadow and let the three of us "(Li Bai's Drinking with the Moon Alone). "The moon is now full at sea, and the horizon at this time is * * *" (Zhang Jiuling's "Looking at the moon and thinking of a distant place"). "I hope that people will live for a long time, and thousands of miles are beautiful" (Su Dongpo, "When is the bright moon?" The humanized description of the moon reflects how imaginative and romantic the people of China are.
The third feature of Mid-Autumn Festival is a sense of urgency. As the saying goes, "Mid-autumn moon is over half, and the week is afraid of Wednesday." It means that as soon as the Mid-Autumn Festival is over, the day of "year-end accounting" is coming, so we should hurry up and finish what we should do this year. In ancient Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival was still a day to settle accounts, which was a sign of a time period, also known as "solar terms", and the debts should be settled at that time. This Mid-Autumn Festival, a diabolo competition will be held in Xuanwu District of Beijing. Diabolo is the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects. Beijing Diabolo has one wheel and two wheels. The second round of photos, shaking up, has the meaning of "time flies, the sun and the moon fly like a shuttle", encouraging people to cherish the good times.
The fourth feature of Mid-Autumn Festival is the warm feeling of bones and meat. Spend a full moon night, when flesh and blood are reunited. Reunion and reunion are the core meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival custom. Due to family life, China people have strong family ethics, attach importance to family ties and blood ties, and form a folk psychology of peace, harmony and harmonious reunion. National unity, national unity and family reunion have become major events that reflect happiness in people's lives, and the existence of the Mid-Autumn Festival provides a good opportunity for people to get together regularly. Festivals are an accelerant to strengthen national cohesion, and people recognize and practice folk customs, which is a great and mysterious force. Moon cake is a snack. As a social gift, they are intended to convey feelings, and "gratitude must be rewarded". "Dim sum, dim sum" is just a point, not seeking luxury, but focusing on family ties. The luxurious packaging of moon cakes does not conform to the original intention of "dim sum". If the packaging is too luxurious and difficult to degrade, it will cause difficulties in handling, which violates the principle of "not afraid of repetition" in folk customs and is not conducive to the protection of holiday folk events.