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A Brief introduction of the
Mid-Autumn
Festival
论文作者: 谭素君
学 号:
2
指导教师: 刘显容
学科专业: 英语专业(师范方向)
班
级: 2012级六班
摘
要
中秋节是农历八月十五日,是我国仅次于春节的第二大传统节
日。也称仲秋节、团圆节和八
月节等,是我国汉族和大部分少数民族
的传统节日,也流行于朝鲜、日本和越南等邻国。根据我国古代历
法,
一年有四季,每季三个月,分别被称为孟月、仲月、季月三部分,因
此秋季的第二月叫仲秋
,又因农历八月十五在八月中旬,故称中秋。
随着社会的不断发展,古人赋予月亮许多传说,从吴刚伐
桂到嫦
娥奔月,丰富的想象力为月宫世界描绘了一幅幅斑驳陆离的胜景。自
汉至唐,骚人墨客纷
纷吟咏月亮及月中之事,八月十五月圆时成为抒
发感情的极佳时刻。中秋之夜,明月当空,清辉洒满大地
,人们把月
圆当作团圆的象征,把八月十五作为亲人团聚的日子,因此,中秋节
又被称为“团圆
节”。
关键词:中秋起源、民间风俗、民间传说
Abstract
The Mid-Autumn Festival is in the
lunar August 15th. It is the
second major
traditional festivals in China after the Spring
Festival. It is
also called Zhongqiu
Festival,
Reunion Festival and Festival of
August.
And the Mid-Autumn Festival is not
only the traditional festival of
Chinese Han
ethnic and most of the minorities but also popular
in Korea,
Japan and Vietnam and other
neighboring countries. According to ancient
Chinese calendar, there are four seasons in a
year; each season has three
months which are
Meng, Zhong and Ji .So the second month in fall is
called the
Mid-Autumn fall.
With the development of society, the moon has
many stories, from
Wu Gang to chang’e,
imagination painted pieces of variegated world
scenery for moon .Since the Han Dynasty,
writers and poets
praised the
moon and
months, which was a very good moment to express
the feelings
of the full moon in August. At
the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the
moon
was in the sky and shone the earth. People
regarded the moon as a
symbol of reunion, to
regard August 15
th
as a day of family’s
reunion.
Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is
also called “The Festival of
Reunion”.
Key Words:
The origin of Mid-Autumn
Festival, folk-custom,
folklore
1 The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
1.1 Originated from the ancient worship of the
month
As with other traditional festivals,
the Mid-Autumn festival has a
long
history. The emperors of ancient had the etiquette
of worshiping the
sun in Spring and worshiping
the moon in Autumn. In ancient books,
1
Later aristocrats and there was the record of “the
Mid-Autumn”○
scholars also follow up. All of
them worshiped the moon in the
Mid-Autumn
festival.
This custom spread to folk and
formed a traditional
activity.
Until
the Tang Dynasty, the festival custom of moon got
more
attention of people.
The Mid-
Autumn Festival became a fixed
festival
.
And they had recorded the festival in book
“August 15th
2
This festival was prevalent
in the Song Mid-Autumn Festival”○
Dynasty. To
the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was famous as New
Year's
Day, as one of China's major festivals.
1.2 The relationship with the imperial
examination
In the feudal society of China,
there was a very important exam to
select
talent.
And once in three years the Autumn
Wei match arranged to
be held in August.
People called the champions laurel of mid-autumn.
Every mid-autumn festival, they must celebrate
the important thing. Later
it had become a
important custom. So the Mid-Autumn Festival has
become one of the most important festivals in
China.
2 The folk-custom of Mid-Autumn
Festival
2.1 The moon in the Mid-Autumn
Festival
In China, worshiping moon is a very
old custom. It is also the origin
of the festival. The place of worshiping
called Ri Tan, Di Tan, Yue Tan,
Tian Tan,
which were located in the four directions of east
south north
and west.
Beijing Yuetan
is the place of Ming and Qing emperors
worshiping in the festival. Book of Rites on
the record as “yuzuki of
3
that is to
worship goddess of the moon. Autumn
Twilight”○
In the Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn
Festival moon's much more
vigorous, as far as
Tokyo Meng hua lu reads: “In the autumn of your
4
home decorations Taixie, civil war
accounted for restaurants Wan Yue”○
During the
day, the capital of all shops, restaurants must be
re-decoration,
ceremonial arch tie silk
wounded, the sale of fresh fruit and refined good
food, night markets crowded, the people who
boarded the tower over a
number of well-off
people in their own tower Pavilion on the moon,
and
put food or arrange a private banquet,
family reunion child, a common
view of the
moon Xu Tan.
2.2 Eating moon cakes
China's urban and rural masses, the festival
has a custom of eating
moon cakes, “moon
cakes” the word first appeared in the Dream beams
5
in the Southern Song .During that time,
it was only the of Wu zimu○
cake pie food.
Later, people gradually to the full moon and the
taste of the
Mid-Autumn moon cakes together,
being a symbol of family reunion.
Moon cakes
was originally produced in the family, The Yuan
Mei of
Qing Dynasty in Sui Garden Fresh single
had recorded a moon cake
6
. In modern
times, there were specialized workshops making
approach○
moon cakes, the production became
more sophisticating, the moon is also
printed
with a variety of exquisite patterns. The moon
cake were
round ,so it means reunion and it
symbolizes miss home, miss their loved
ones.
2.3 Playing with lanterns
In The Mid-
Autumn Festival, there are many games. The first
is
playing lanterns. Playing lanterns is
mainly carried out in the family,
children.
There was a record “a little red light in the
river drift” activity in
7
Various kinds of Wulin old thing in the early
Northern Song Dynasty○
lights: Sesame lamp,
eggshell lamp, lamp shell particles, straw
lamps,
Shavings lamp,
chaff lamp,
melon seed hull fish lamp and birds tree lights,
amazing.
3 Folklore in the Mid-Autumn
Festival
3.1 Chang'e flight to the moon
According to legend, in ancient times a year,
ten suns appeared in
the sky. There was a
hero named Hou Yi shot down nine stretch an
excess of sun. He married a beautiful and
kind-hearted wife named
Chang-e. They were
respected by people. One day, Hou Yi got a drug
from the Queen Mother. It is said that the
drug dose can immediately go
to heaven
immortal.
Three days later, Hou Yi went out
hunting, Peng Meng wanted to
steal the drug.
Chang-e knew that they are not rivals, when she
was
critical of the decisive turn open the
treasure box, took out elixir
swallowed.
Chang-e swallowed drugs, the body immediately
floated off
the ground, out of the window,
flew to the sky. As Chang-e worried about
her
husband, then fly to the moon from the earth into
the nearest cent.
In the Evening, Hou Yi
returned home, he was scared and angry, but
Peng Meng escaped early. He looked up at the
night sky, calling his
beloved wife's name.
Then he was surprised to find that today's moon is
particularly bright and clear and there is a
shaking of the figure resembles
the
Chang-e.
People soon heard about the news
of Chang-e, they pray for
good luck peace.
Since then, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival
worship
in private spread.
3.2 Wu
Gang cut the laurel
It is said that on the
moon there was a laurel which was more than
500 feet high. There was a person always in
cutting it, but he never cut it
down. For
thousands of years, Wu Gang never stop in cut the
tree, the
laurel tree can not be cut down
forever.
It is said that the man named Wu
Gang, was living near the Han
River. He followed the religious immortal,
flight to heaven. But he made
a mistake, an
immortal banished him to the palace. He did this
work
proved futile grind day after day as a
punishment. Li Bai had a poem
8
wrote “to
chop a GUI months, who had paid for the cold”○
3.3 Zhu Yuanzhang and moon cakes uprising
Eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival began
in the Yuan
dynasty. At that time, the
majority of the people were unbearable with the
ruling class and the brutality of the Yuan
dynasty rule. Zhu Yuanzhang
joint the
uprising to resist the government. But the
government officers
searched very tight, The
army were very difficult to send the message.
His consigliore Liu Bowen devised a plan,
hiding a note writes “August
fifteen night
uprising” inside the pancake, and then sent to the
rebel army,
to inform them on the evening of
August 15th uprising. At the day of the
uprising , all the army got together.
Soon, Xu Da captured Yuan Dadu, the uprising
succeeded. The news
came, Zhu Yuanzhang was
very happy and hurriedly pass down the oral
instructions that in the coming Mid-Autumn
Festival, all the soldiers
could have fun with
the citizens. And he ordered to regard the “moon
cakes” as the seasonal pastries to reward
courtiers. Since then, the “moon
cakes” were
made more and more sophisticated, and the Mid-
Autumn
moon cakes in folk custom spread.
References
1. Zhou Li, The
Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Gong Dan
2. Tang
Books
3. Book of Rites, the Western Han
Dynasty, Da De& Dai Sheng
4. Tokyo Dream
Hua Lu, the Song Dynasty, Meng &Yuanlao
5.
Dream Liang Lu, the Southern Song Dynasty ,Wu
Zimu
6. Sui Yuan Food List, the Qing Dynasty
, Huang Yuan Mei
7. Wu Lin Old Story
8.
To Cui Si Hu Wen Kun Season, the Tang Dynasty,
Li Bai
9. Teikyo Features Slightly
,
the
Ming Dynasty, Liu Dong&Yu Yizheng.
10. The
Mid-Autumn Festival, 2010, Huang Tao
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