"Asking the Moon with Wine - My Late Friend Jia Chun Makes You Ask"

Tang Dynasty: Li Bai

There is a moon in the blue sky, how many times will it come, and I am stopping my cup to ask about it. The moon is not accessible to the people who climb to it, but the moon walks with the people.

Bright as a flying mirror in front of the Danque, green smoke out of the clear light hair. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good look at it, but I'm sure I'll be able to get a good look at it," he said.

The white rabbit pounded medicine in autumn and spring, and Chang'e was alone with her neighbors. The moon was once the light of the ancients, but the moon was once the light of the ancients.

The people of the past and the present are like running water, **** look at the bright moon are like this. I wish the moonlight would shine in the golden bottles when we are singing songs and drinking wine.

Translation: When did the moon rise in the blue sky? I now stop my glass of wine to ask. One can never climb after the bright moon, but the moon walks close to one. The bright moon is bright, like a mirror flying up into the sky, reflecting the palace. The clouds that cover the moon are dissipating, and the moonlight is spilling out its cold light.

People know that the moon rises from the sea at night, but do they know that it disappears from the clouds in the morning? In the moon, the white rabbit is pounding pills in the fall and spring, and Chang'e lives alone in the moon palace and has no one to accompany her.

The people now can't see the ancient moon, but the present moon used to shine on the ancients. Ancient people and present people like running water are just passing by in a hurry,**** with the moon seen all the time. I only hope that the moonlight will shine in the golden cup for a long time when I play songs to the wine cup.

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Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival

On the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are more sayings. The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first used in the "Zhou Li", "Li Ji - Moon Order", "the month of mid-autumn to raise the aging, the line of surimi porridge diet." One said that it originated from the ancient emperor's sacrificial activities. The Book of Rites recorded: "the son of heaven spring morning sun, autumn, the moon", the moon is the moon sacrifice, indicating that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to sacrifice the moon, worship the moon.

Later, noble officials and scholars also followed suit, and gradually spread to the people. Second, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the season of harvest. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is: "the crops are ripe in the fall". In August, mid-autumn, crops and all kinds of fruits are ripening one after another, farmers in order to celebrate the harvest, to express the joy, the "mid-autumn" day as a holiday.

"Mid-Autumn" is the meaning of the middle of the fall, the lunar calendar, August is the middle of the month of autumn, the 15th is the middle of the month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be the ancients, "Autumn News" inherited the custom.

There are also historians who point out that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty army on the 15th day of the 8th month of the 13th year of the Daiye era, the Tang Dynasty army, Pei Silence, with the idea of the full moon, successfully invented the mooncake, and widely distributed to the army as a military pay, to successfully solve the problem of the army food due to the absorption of the large number of anti-Suizhou volunteers and the derivation of the problem.

The custom of enjoying the moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival was initially started by the ancient court literati and then spread to the people. In the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival is quite popular to enjoy the moon and play with the moon,? Many poets' famous poems contain verses about the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival began to become a regular festival.

The Tang Book - Taizong records that there is "August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival". Legend has it that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Xuanzong dreamed of visiting the Moon Palace and was given the Nishang Yuyi song, and only then did the custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival begin to flourish among the people.

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