Folklore experts have studied that the Song Dynasty had the highest happiness index, and after traveling to the Great Song Dynasty, they found that this was indeed the case. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the common people of the Great Song Dynasty like to celebrate festivals and like to express their happiness heartily on special days, and the high-level of the Great Song Dynasty conformed to the people's will and set up many festivals to give happiness and happiness a complete release. Therefore, there are more than 70 festivals in the Song Dynasty, but it is a pity that such a fine tradition has not been passed down to the modern society, otherwise, every three or five days will be on vacation, and one-fifth of the time in a year will be on vacation, which is a great benefit for office workers from 9 to 5. And in addition to the well-known Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and other festivals that have been handed down through the ages, there are also a variety of festivals such as the Tiansheng Festival and the Tianqing Festival that we are not familiar with.

No, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here. In the agricultural era, spring festivals and autumn moon worship were the preserve of emperors, but now they are no longer in the past. In the Great Song Dynasty, the ritual of worshiping the moon and worshiping the moon has been transmitted to the people, and it is a legal festival stipulated by the royal family. Spring and autumn fruits, fruitful, everywhere is filled with a jubilant harvest scene, with those full and sweet melons and fruits, to thank the moon god who blesses the common people, the wind and rain are smooth, it can really be said that everyone is looking forward to it, the whole country carnival.

This is indeed a Mid-Autumn Festival night with clear weather and a full moon like a mirror. A round was large and round, and the bright yellow moon hung high above the inky blue sky. Everyone in the gang is happy to admire the moon and admire the moon, the gang leader took the lead in using a silver knife to divide the big and round moon cakes with everyone, after saying a joyful toast, everyone rushed to start eating moon cakes, pushing the cup and drinking the fragrant Wu Gang wine, after laughing, everyone saw that the time was not early, then they gave their hands to say goodbye, scattered around, washed up a little, and went back to the house to rest.

I couldn't sleep on the couch, so I flipped through a few ancient books at random and read them at night. It turns out that this Mid-Autumn Festival has a lot of origins, and the festival period of the emperor's sacrifice month is the fifteenth day of August of the lunar calendar, which coincides with the half of the three autumns, so it is called the "Mid-Autumn Festival". Because this festival is in autumn and August, it is also called "Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August Meeting" and "Mid-Autumn Festival". There are beliefs and related customs and activities to pray for reunion, also known as "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day". The Mid-Autumn Festival is carried out around the "moon", so it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival", "Moon Night", "Chasing the Moon Festival", "Playing with the Moon Festival", "Moon Worship Festival"; in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Duanzheng Month", the original Mid-Autumn Festival has so many names worth playing, but the same is that the prevalence of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Mid-Autumn Festival has a far-reaching impact, and the Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing is still a custom still retained by modern Chinese thousands of years later. Every full moon night, after a full meal, the family or sit in the courtyard, or gather on the balcony, to sit together to watch the scene of the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon slowly rising, it is a very happy and comfortable, and it is a distant and unattainable thing for us.

But looking at the Song Dynasty notebook novel "Drunkard Talks" is recorded as follows, "Mid-Autumn Festival, the meeting of the Beijing master to appreciate the moon is different from other counties, and the children of the people in the city are not rich or poor, but can travel to the twelfth or thirteenth, all in adult clothes, climbing the building or burning incense in the atrium to worship the moon, each has its own period." That is, the people of the Great Song Dynasty not only admired the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also worshiped the moon. The so-called moon worship is to burn incense in the courtyard to worship the moon god and say one's wish for a year in order to be blessed. At that time, the men of the Great Song Dynasty generally begged for "early steps to the Toad Palace and climbed the fairy laurel", while the women of the Great Song Dynasty worshiped the moon mainly hoping that they would "look like Chang'e and face like the bright moon". For this custom, some people wrote a poem, "When people don't go to the department early, just for Chang'e to love the youth." ”

And a few other books also describe the grand occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Tokyo Menghualu" records - "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, your family decorates the pavilion, and the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon, and the silk fence is boiling. Residents near the inner courtyard, hearing the sound of the sheng pole in the middle of the night, as if outside the clouds. Children in Luli frolic all night. The night market is Khotan, as for the know. ”

"Menglianglu" also described-"This night the moonlight is brighter than usual, and it is also called the moon and night." At this time, the golden wind is cool, the jade dew is cool, the osmanthus fragrance is floating, the silver toad is full of light, the prince and grandson, the rich family's giant room, all climb the dangerous building, play the moon in Linxuan, or open the Guangxi, the tortoise feast is listed, the piano is sonorous, drink wine and sing, and the joy of the night. As for the home of the shop, it also climbs the small platform to arrange family banquets and reunite children to reward the festival. Although the poor people in the alleys undressed the city wine, they reluctantly welcomed the joy and refused to waste it. This night day street sells and buys, until the five drums, play the moon tourists, swaying in the city, until the end of the know. ”

Even the great lyricist Su Dongpo is not exempt from vulgarity, he wrote in the preface of the opening chapter of "When is the Bright Moon in the Water Tune Song Header" - "Bingchen Mid-Autumn Festival, drinking Dadan, drunk, making this article and conceiving a child", it is really happy to return, and the poetry is great.

It seems that the Mid-Autumn Festival in this Great Song Dynasty is much more lively and cheerful than the modern society, it is really a national carnival, all night long, until dawn and rest. The common people of the Great Song Dynasty will not turn off the lights and fall asleep because it is late, it is really a carnival all night. It's no wonder that I just faintly heard the sound of laughter and firecrackers outside, which is really infinitely desirable and wants to see it.

It's a pity that the Black Dragon Gang has strict rules and is unconventional, unlike it, after everyone gathers together, they rested early, so they had to read it on this night, I continued to see it with great interest, it turned out that these Great Song Dynasty people were particularly romantic during the Mid-Autumn Festival, not only drinking wine and eating moon cakes to admire the moon, but also putting water lanterns to welcome the birthday of the tide god is also one of the customs. The book "Old Things of Wulin" written by Zhou Mi in the Song Dynasty said, "On this night, hundreds of thousands of small water lanterns in 'a little red' sheepskin are put on the water, floating all over the water, rotten like stars, and there are enough spectators." Or it is said that this is what the god of the river likes, and it is not in vain to look at the beauty. "And this custom is not only found along the river and coastal areas, but also in inland areas, which is really infinitely desirable.

In fact, the Song Dynasty people celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, for most people, moon cakes are not like modern society in general, is an indispensable necessity, many people in the Song Dynasty will not deliberately prepare moon cakes as a meal for the night, because the production of moon cakes, the process is not simple, in the modern society should eat a few more pieces of moon cakes before coming over, if you are lucky enough to go back, you must eat all kinds of moon cakes. I couldn't help but think to myself. Compared with moon cakes, drinking alcohol is more common. Most of the villages, towns, and neighborhoods have liquor stores, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when new liquor is on the market. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the rich drank wine and sang, and the poor also bought clothes and wine, "reluctantly welcoming the joy and refusing to waste it". Although it is not necessary to eat moon cakes, but for ordinary people, it is also a good choice to drink some "playing moon soup", which is a kind of characteristic soup porridge, the taste is excellent, but it is a pity that you can only understand that you can not speak, and all kinds of seasonal fruits are also essential.

In Tokyo, the capital of the bustling Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival is even more unique, making people yearn for it even more. "Tokyo Menghualu" vividly describes: "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the noble family decorates the pavilion, and the people compete to occupy the restaurant to play the moon." The bright moon has just climbed up the treetops, the streets and alleys of the capital are lively, every household is full of lights, the dignitaries and nobles gather on the Fan Tower that is far away from the palace, the wine that has just opened the altar wafts with the intoxicating mellow fragrance in the wind, looking up at the moon, and the poetry is rippling. The moonlight like water shines on the seven corners and eight alleys, seventy-two alleys, and rows of buildings in Tokyo City, and after worshipping the moon, the housewives solemnly cut the moon cakes with silver knives, which is really priceless. And there is also a large-scale gorgeous evening performance as the finale, which is described in "Xuanhe Painting": "On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, women hold each other and sing, and they are in the shadow of the moon." "Melt moonlight, sparkling Jinming poolside, a group of dressed bright eyes and bright teeth, thousands of charming court women in the rising moon for the song, long sleeves good dance, enthusiastic and unrestrained, stepping on the ground for the festival, singing and dancing, wonderful, like a dream. The ordinary people of the Great Song Dynasty are crowded to watch "Walking Song", not to mention the melodious and beautiful court music, what a beautiful scene it should be, I look at it, my heart is surging, I want to hurry up and take a plane to the capital to have a look, suddenly remember that this is not a modern society, not to mention the plane, not even a car, only in the imagination of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the capital, by the way, I am looking forward to when, can I have the opportunity to go to the bustling capital for a visit?

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