Mid-Autumn Festival information content
Information about the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival brings family reunion, eating mooncakes and admiring the moon, which has been a custom in China for thousands of years. The ancient emperors also celebrated the festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, which happened to be in the middle of autumn, hence the name "Mid-Autumn Festival". Usually during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is relatively round, which symbolizes reunion, so it is also called the "Reunion Festival". There are many customary activities related to the Mid-Autumn Festival to pray for reunion and good luck. The record of the "Reunion Festival" was first seen in the Ming Dynasty. Let's talk about several ways to bring good luck to the Mid-Autumn Festival and related precautions. Let's learn together.
1. Worship the moon and pray for blessings
In terms of Feng Shui, you can worship the moon and pray for blessings during the Mid-Autumn Festival. The same is true on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. On the Christmas Day of the Moon God, due to the divine light, the moon is particularly bright and round every Mid-Autumn Festival night. Therefore, if everyone can sincerely worship the Moon God, they can sense the spirit, have all their wishes come true, and achieve good luck. The specific method is as follows: After the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, when the whole family eats moon cakes and enjoys the full moon together, you can prepare three kinds of fruits, pastries, paper money to worship God, a clean bowl, burn incense and paper money to worship the Moon God, and say: God of Moonlight, this is your Christmas, believer so-and-so worships the God of Moonlight sincerely, please be merciful and bless my fortune, and make all my wishes come true!
2. Don’t admire the moon alone
Raise a glass to the bright moon and make three people in the shadow. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, some people will enjoy the moon alone for various reasons. I would like to remind you to try not to go to less crowded places to enjoy the moon, or go to rivers or seaside to enjoy the moon.
3. It is easy to get pregnant when you touch the scenery
The moon is a symbol of tranquility and sadness. It is recommended that friends who have recently broken up or recently divorced or who have a tendency to depression should try their best to admire the moon as little as possible to avoid emotional injury.
IV. Increase popularity
Friends who usually have a small family can invite more friends or family members to sit at home during the festival, and move around to gain more popularity, which is beneficial to the family. of good luck.
5. Add nobility
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, you can place potted green plants at home to add aura to the home, and secondly to enhance the aura of the home in Feng Shui. , the house we live in also needs to add some things occasionally, so that it will look noble.
6. Stay away from bad magnets
Friends who are usually busy at work can regularly clean out some unused, nostalgic, sad and medical records during the festival, so that they can be kept away in Feng Shui. Bad magnetic field.
7. Promote marriage
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, this day is also regarded as a good day to promote marriage. If single people worship the moon on this day, they will have greater success. The opportunity to find a good match allows lovers to finally get married. So on this day, you can prepare flowers and fruits to worship the old man in the moon, and recite in your mouth: Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I pray that the old man under the moon can match someone with someone, so that someone can get married early, and all your wishes will come true!
Put another red line on the case. Recite your name silently, express your wish, and pray to Yue Lao to protect you so that you can find your ideal partner. Please describe the conditions of the desired partner, and pray to Yue Lao to give you a red thread for marriage. Wear the red thread on the case with you and put it in your purse, or Place under pillow.
8. Full of energy
The moonlight of the Mid-Autumn Festival is very bright and soft, making the house full of warmth. It is recommended that you also place a lamp or light a butter lamp or lamp in the financial position of your home. Candles, turned on at night to illuminate wealth, can make the aura of the home more energetic and personal fortune smoother.
9. Make your own good wishes
When the moon is full, you can also face the moon and make any good wishes of your own, and Yue Lao will help you fulfill your wishes!
10. Promote harmony among relatives, friends, and loved ones
For Mid-Autumn Festival reunion, be sure to have a reunion dinner together! Therefore, during the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, people who live in two places and whose family members are not harmonious may wish to take advantage of the Mid-Autumn Festival to have a reunion dinner to add good luck to themselves and bring together relatives, friends, and loved ones. harmony between.
Eleven. The Kongming lanterns are released during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The Kongming lanterns are also known as prayer lanterns and sky lanterns among the people. According to legend, when Zhuge Kongming was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, he had no choice but to send troops out of the city to ask for help. Kong Ming accurately calculated the direction of the wind, made a floating paper lantern, and attached a message for help. However, he was actually in danger, so later generations called this kind of lantern Kongming Lantern. At the same time, the shape of the Kongming Lantern is like the hat worn by Zhuge Liang, so it has the reputation of "prayer lantern" and "safety lantern". And in the Mid-Autumn Festival, a festival of wonderful reunions, flying sky lanterns can also bring good luck to yourself.
Kongming lanterns are mostly used to pray for blessings. Men, women, old and young write their wishes with their own hands and pray for happiness every year. In modern times, everyone is reminded to pay attention to environmental safety when flying Kongming lanterns.
Legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival
One of the legends of the Mid-Autumn Festival - Chang'e flying to the moon
According to legend, in ancient times, ten suns appeared in the sky at the same time, which caused the crops to wither and the people to live in dire straits. A hero named Hou Yi had infinite strength. He sympathized with the suffering people. He climbed to the top of the Kunlun Mountains, used his supernatural power, drew his magical bow, and shot down more than nine suns in one go. He also strictly ordered the last sun to rise and set on time to serve the people. benefit.
Hou Yi was respected and loved by the people. Hou Yi married a beautiful and kind-hearted wife named Chang'e. In addition to spreading his skills and hunting, Hou Yi stayed with his wife all day long. People envied this loving couple with talent and beauty.
Many people with lofty ideals came here to learn from Tou Shi, and Peng Meng with evil intentions also got in.
One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek enlightenment. He happened to meet the Queen Mother who was passing by, and asked the Queen Mother for a package of elixir. It is said that if you take this medicine, you can immediately ascend to heaven and become an immortal. However, Hou Yi was reluctant to leave his wife, so he had to temporarily give the elixir to Chang'e for collection. Chang'e hid the medicine in the treasure box on the dressing table. Unexpectedly, the villain Peng Meng saw it. He wanted to steal the elixir and become an immortal himself.
Three days later, Hou Yi led his disciples to go hunting. Peng Meng, who had evil intentions, pretended to be sick and stayed. Soon after Hou Yi led everyone away, Peng Meng broke into the backyard of the inner house with a sword and forced Chang'e to hand over the elixir. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng. In the critical moment, she made a prompt decision, turned around, opened the treasure box, took out the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. Chang'e swallowed the medicine, and her body immediately floated off the ground, rushed out of the window, and flew to the sky. Because Chang'e cared about her husband, she flew to the moon closest to the world and became an immortal.
In the evening, Hou Yi returned home, and the maids cried about what happened during the day. Hou Yi was frightened and angry, so he drew his sword to kill the villain, but Peng Meng had already escaped. Hou Yi was so angry that he beat his chest and was heartbroken. He looked up at the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife. At this time, he was surprised to find that the moon today was particularly special. It is bright and bright, and there is a shaking figure that looks like Chang'e. He chased the moon desperately, but he chased three steps, the moon took three steps back, he took three steps back, and the moon took three steps forward. No matter what, he couldn't catch up.
Hou Yi had no choice but to miss his wife, so he had to send people to Chang'e's favorite back garden, set up an incense table, put her favorite sweetmeats and fresh fruits, and offer sacrifices to him in the moon palace. of Chang'e. After the common people heard the news that Chang'e flew to the moon and became an immortal, they set up incense tables under the moon and prayed to the kind-hearted Chang'e for good luck and peace.
Since then, the custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival has spread among the people.
Mid-Autumn Legend 2 - Wu Gang won the laurel crown
There is another legend about the Mid-Autumn Festival: It is said that the laurel tree in front of the Guanghan Palace on the moon grows luxuriantly and is more than 500 feet tall. There is a man below who is always cutting it down, but every time he cuts it down, the cut place immediately closes up again. For thousands of years, this osmanthus tree has been cut down as it goes. This osmanthus tree can never be cut down. It is said that the man who cut down the tree was named Wu Gang, who was from Xihe in the Han Dynasty. He once followed the immortals to practice Taoism and reached heaven. However, he made a mistake, and the immortals demoted him to the Moon Palace, where he did such futile and hard work every day as punishment. . There is a record in Li Bai's poem "If you want to cut the laurel in the moon, you will hold on to the salary of those who are cold".
The third legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival - Zhu Yuanzhang and the Mooncake Uprising
It is said that eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, the vast number of people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the Yuan Dynasty's ruling class, and they revolted against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang united various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising. However, the officers and soldiers of the court conducted a very strict search, making it very difficult to convey the news. Military counselor Liu Bowen came up with a plan and ordered his subordinates to hide the note with "uprising on August 15th" in the cakes, and then sent people to deliver it to the insurrectionary armies in various places, informing them to respond to the uprising on the night of August 15th. . On the day of the uprising, all rebel armies responded together, and the insurrectionary army was like a spark igniting a prairie fire.
Soon, Xu Da captured Yuan Dadu and the uprising was successful. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he quickly passed down an oral order to let all the soldiers and the people have fun during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, and to reward the officials with the "mooncakes" that were used to secretly convey the message when the army was launched as seasonal cakes. Since then, the production of "mooncakes" has become more and more sophisticated, with more varieties, and the large ones are as big as discs, which have become a good gift. From then on, the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people. ;