The Tang Dynasty poet Li Pu described it this way in "Mid-Autumn Festival":

When the treasure mirror rises in the sky, the fairy in the clouds is silent.

The equinox is full of rounds, and the clouds are bright for a long time.

The cunning rabbit fell from the string, and the toad Hugh was born in front of him.

The Lingcha intends to join hands with each other, and wait for the galaxy to be completely cleared.

Indeed, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the important festivals in the 5,000-year history of the Chinese nation. In ancient times, it was called the "Moon Worship Festival", which symbolized the reunion of the family and represented the moment of family reunion.

This Mid-Autumn Festival falls on a Saturday.

According to local custom, in the past, a week before the Mid-Autumn Festival, all the residents and residents of the town would go to one of the few places where mooncakes were made to "make mooncakes".

In fact, according to the actual situation of each family, prepare 10-20 catties of noodles in advance, take them to the small workshop for making and processing moon cakes, and process the noodles into moon cakes by paying a part of the processing fee.

But locally, this event is one of the annual "events".

After all, the number of small workshops is limited, so many times there is a long queue for "moon cakes". Every year, when "making mooncakes", adults have to line up until eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening, or even one or two o'clock in the morning. The children are as excited as the Chinese New Year, and they are looking forward to their parents being able to "beat" the mooncakes as soon as possible and enjoy the food that can only be eaten once a year.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, neighbors, relatives and friends will send their own "beaten" mooncakes to each other to try and communicate their feelings by the way. The number of mooncakes is also particular, most of the time it is 7 or 9.

I once asked my mother why these two numbers were used, and my mother's explanation was that the tradition of the older generation was to "give odd rather than even", that is, three, five, seven, nine...... One, three or five is a bit less, eleven and thirteen is a bit more, so everyone invariably sets the number at seven or nine. In addition, "seven" and "rise" are homonyms, and "nine" and "long" are homonyms.

Moreover, such a statement will also be extended to Chinese wine culture. The pronunciation of "wine" is also the same as "long", meaning a long time, in Mongolian, Tujia, Dong and other ethnic minorities, there are some sayings of "singing non-stop, wine non-stop", so many regional customs are very taboo to say "no wine", this is obviously "slapping the master in the face" of the statement, the master must be furious when he hears it: "It's not been a long time? Who and who haven't been for a long time? What nonsense? Our wine is not lacking again! It will be a long time!"

You must know that everyone wants to last a long time, the country hopes for long-term stability, the society hopes for a long time, politicians want to be protracted, businessmen want to be happy for a long time, lovers want to be long-lasting, and the elderly want to be old for a long time......

Therefore, it is very taboo to say the word "no wine" on any occasion in the mainland wine culture!

Friends who are new to the workplace should remember to remember!

On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the event begins among the neighbors. At that time, the neighborhood was very harmonious, so most of the neighbors would push the door straight into the house.

"Lao Zhang, why don't you get some mooncakes from our family to try at home!"

"Yo! Xiao Li is here, come in and sit down! By the way, try my mooncakes!"

"Lao Zhang, my family is a five-kernel mooncake, I think this is also quite interesting, what is the filling of your mooncake?"

"Brother Xiao Li, my mooncakes are honey!"

Xiao Li also tasted a small piece, and nodded and praised as he chewed: "Well-your mooncakes are also very delicious and delicious!"

"That's a good feeling, let your sister-in-law bring you some in a while. Go home and let your daughter-in-law and children taste it. Taking advantage of the situation, Lao Zhang yelled at his daughter-in-law: "Wife, bring some of our mooncakes to Xiao Lizi and let him taste them too!"

"Okay!" Sister-in-law Zhang glanced at the number of mooncakes Xiao Li brought without a trace, and muttered in her heart: "Well, 7!"

Xiao Zhang was not polite, and said with a smile: "Thank you, sister-in-law!"

So, Sister-in-law Zhang loaded 7 of her own mooncakes for Xiao Li, and brought them again when Xiao Li left......

It has to be said that at that time, although the living conditions were limited, the degree of harmony between the neighbors was much better than that of today's metropolises made of reinforced concrete and concrete!

However, this year's Mid-Autumn Festival is fundamentally different from the past for me.

There are no "moon cakes" at home, no mother and sister by their side, and no Mid-Autumn Festival dinner for the whole family, only my father and I ......

On this morning, my father was not at home, and Lei Zi, Madman, and Jia Wei all got together at my house, and they still maintained the tradition of meeting on weekends, but they were no longer in the park.

At this time, Aunt Yang, the next-door neighbor, sent us a few months of cakes and said, "Dunzi, my mother didn't come back for the holiday this year, Aunt Yang will bring you some moon cakes to try!"

"Thank you, Aunt Yang!" I happily accepted the mooncakes brought by Aunt Yang, because my mother was not at home this year, so there were no mooncakes at all!

As soon as Aunt Yang left, Lei Zi said, "I want to eat moon cakes!"

"Of course!" I happily put the mooncakes in the middle of the table, in fact, everyone just can't eat them usually, there is no oil and water in the stomach, in the final analysis, it is still a problem of gluttony, so the four of them ate a total of one.

At this time, my father came home, saw the mooncake on the table, obviously knew something, glared at me without a trace, and then picked up the mooncake without saying a word and gnawed it.

His look suddenly made me suddenly realize, and reminded me that a few years ago, our family's "moon cakes" had to be hidden and never eaten by outsiders.

A Mid-Autumn Festival, my mother gave my uncle's daughter, my cousin Xiuhong took out a few months of cakes to eat, and was scolded by my father for several days, this incident happened to be all heard by Sister Xiuhong, and I remembered it in my heart, and went back to tell my aunt that my aunt sent Sister Xiuhong to my father to get ten moon cakes overnight, which calmed my father's anger against my mother!

This time, my father's eyes made me understand that after my brothers were gone, I would definitely suffer another spiritual devastation!

What to do?

I feel a little panicked, how can I explain it to avoid this "flying disaster"?

As soon as I gritted my teeth and stomped my feet, I could only tell the truth!

So, when my father went to the courtyard, I rushed out of the door and whispered to him: "Leizi wants to eat moon cakes, so we share one to eat together." ”

My father didn't say anything and glared at me again.

Well, I really couldn't understand my father's intention to stare at me again and again, so I had to go into the house with my head down, looking preoccupied.

To be continued......

Wishing all friends,

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival,

National Day is auspicious.

Good luck

Year after year!