The ancient poems about appreciating the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival are as follows:

1. Li Bai's "Quiet Night Thoughts": There is bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon, lower your head to think about your hometown.

2. Zhang Huangyan's "Zhongqiu Mid-Autumn Festival": The autumn scenery is long, and the orchid, osmanthus and osmanthus are fragrant. The moon is bright and round, people are thousands of miles away, the wind is strong and the sail is light and the swallows are traveling together.

3. Du Fu's "Remembering My Brother on a Moonlit Night": The dew is white tonight, and the moon is bright in my hometown.

4. "Moonlight Night" by Liu Fangping: The moonlight is deeper than half of the house, and the Beidou is tilted to the south.

5. Bai Juyi's "Looking at the Moon in the Pavilion on the Night of August 15th": Yesterday the wind blew and no one could see it, but tonight the light is as clear as in previous years.

6. Su Shi's "Shui Tiao Ge Tou": When will the bright moon come? Ask the blue sky for wine. I don’t know what year it is today in the palace in the sky... People have joys and sorrows, separations and reunions, and the moon waxes and wanes. This matter is difficult to complete in ancient times. I hope that people will live long and travel thousands of miles to meet Chanjuan.

7. Yang Shen's "Mid-Autumn Festival": The crickets on the four walls chant white dew balls, who cheers for the clear night in the West Garden. Thousands of houses are closed behind the Mid-Autumn Moon, and only the sad people are watching alone.

8. Cheng Yanxiong's "Mid-Autumn Moon": The Queen Mother's makeup has not been put away, and she is leaning on the railing in the crystal building. Don't take advantage of the clear light when playing music and singing, and stay in a fishing boat with the stream weng.

9. Sikong Tu "Mid-Autumn Festival": Outside the autumn scenery, everything feels leisurely. If there is no moon this night, the year will be in vain.

10. "Looking at the Moon on the Fifteenth Night" by Wang Jian: Crows roost in the white trees in the courtyard, and the cold dew wets the sweet-scented osmanthus silently. Tonight, when the moon is bright and everyone looks around, I don’t know who is missing my autumn thoughts.

Related theories about the formation and evolution of the moon

1. Capture theory: This theory believes that the moon was originally just an asteroid in the solar system. Because it moved near the earth, it was attracted by the earth’s gravity. Captured and turned into a satellite of the earth. However, this theory is no longer widely accepted because the compositions of the Moon and Earth are too different to explain how the Moon formed.

2. Split theory: This theory holds that the moon was once part of the earth. It is believed that the earth rotated too fast and threw part of the material out to form the moon. But this theory cannot explain the differences in the composition of the moon and the earth, nor the moon's position in the solar system.