Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals with a long history, also known as Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It is also regarded as the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year and Chinese people are pay more attention to this festival.
Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival
A tradition that has gone back 3,000 years to the Zhou Dynasty (1045 – 221 BC), the Mid-Autumn Festival is sometimes called the Mooncake Festival. It became popular after the Song Dynasty. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a popular folk festival, and officially set August 15 as the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become one of the main festivals of Chinese people and the significance of the festival is getting more and more important.
Significance
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival symbolizing reunion. The festival originated during the autumn harvest season in ancient China, when people celebrated the harvest and emphasized the importance of family reunion. On this day, no matter where you are, people will try to go home to reunite with their families, enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes together. The moon cake, a typical food of this festival, is round in shape, symbolizing reunion and wholeness. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is not only a festival to celebrate harvest, but also a time to emphasize family reunion and emotional exchange.
Foods
The holiday always falls on a full moon and people often celebrate the festival by spending time with family, eating some delicious food and moon watching.
In the south of China, people usually eats moon cakes, pomelos, water chestnut, fried river snail and other foods, while the north likes to eat moon cakes, apples, pomegranates, osmanthus wine, and so on. In addition, some places in the south will make sweet melons and other special food to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Although all of Chinese are celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, but in different places the people will eat different moon cakes.
Compared with the southern moon cake, the northern moon cake crust is thicker, and the inner filling is hard, generally walnut kernel, melon kernel, rock sugar, osmanthus and so on, the taste is mainly sweet, the most representative is the five kernel moon cake, the north to eat moon cake has a "bite, two bites swallow" habit, but also reflects the northern people's bold and generous.
Southern mooncakes are divided into Cantonese-style, Chaozhou-style, Suzhou-style, Yunnan style mooncakes, contemporary innovative styles snow skin mooncake is mostly crisp and soft, filled with jujube paste, nuts, bean paste, salty and sweet taste, delicate and soft taste, when eating, Southerners prefer to use tableware to cut and full of ritual.
Such as North classic Five Kernel Mooncake, South classic Egg Yolk Lotus Seed Paste Mooncake, Yunnan Ham Mooncake, Contemporary Styles Snow Skin Mooncake.
Activities
As a traditional Chinese festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is getting more and more attention. In addition to drinking tea, enjoying the moon and tasting moon cakes, there is also a very interesting custom in most regions, which is to light lanterns. However, with the continuous emergence of new light sources, the development level of lamps continues to improve. And more and more people will take part in the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern fair. Also on offer are Chinese handicraft demonstrations, lantern riddles, as well as music and dance shows that are both traditional and innovative.
Last year, Zhuhai, Guangdong, on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone held a large-scale garden activity in Tianmu River Rowing Park. Tens of thousands of visitors from Guangdong, Macao and other places enjoyed food, riverside concerts, water dance light shows and drone shows. The scene of the event was crowded, and applause echoed in the Tianmu River. Let's enjoy it!
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