1, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival: the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and other traditional festivals, is also the slow development of the formation of the ancient emperors had the spring festival of the sun, the fall festival of the moon ritual system, as early as in the book of the "Zhou Rites", there has been the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" recorded. Later, the aristocrats and scholars also followed suit, in the mid-autumn festival, the sky is bright and round a round of white moon, ornamental worship, to send feelings, this custom has been passed on to the people, forming a traditional activity.

2, the Mid-Autumn Festival customs: the Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes is a necessary custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival across China;? Moon festival comes from the moon festival, serious rituals into a light-hearted entertainment; Mid-Autumn Festival night lights burning candles with rope tied to bamboo poles, hanging high on the eaves or terrace, or small lamps built into a character or various shapes, hanging in the house high, commonly known as the "tree in the Mid-Autumn Festival," or "vertical in the Mid-Autumn Festival".

3, Mid-Autumn Festival story: Legend has it that the moon in front of the Guanghan Palace of the laurel tree grows luxuriantly, there are more than 500 feet high, there is a person often cut it down, but every time you cut down, after being cut down and immediately close the place. For thousands of years, it was cut down and closed up in this way, and this laurel tree could never be cut down.

It is said that the man who cut down the tree was named Wu Gang, a native of Xihe in the Han Dynasty, who had followed the immortals to the heavenly realm, but he made a mistake, and the immortals relegated him to the Moon Palace, where he was punished by doing such futile and hard work day in and day out. Li Bai's poem, "I want to carve the laurel in the moon, and hold it as a salary for the cold".

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Mid-Autumn Festival Poems p>Introduction of famous poems for Mid-Autumn Festival:

"Chang'e"

Dynasty: Tang Dynasty Author: Li Shangyin?

The candle shadow of the mica screen is deep, the long river is gradually falling and the dawn star is sinking.

Chang'e should regret stealing the elixir, and the blue sea and the blue sky are night and day.

Translation: The shadow of the candle is y reflected on the mica screen, the Milky Way is gradually sinking, and the morning stars are gradually disappearing. Chang'e regretted her loneliness, regretted stealing the elixir. Facing the blue sea and blue sky, she misses the earth day and night.?

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