When does the Mid-Autumn Festival start? When did the Chinese start celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival? Li Chen must have said, at least after the Tang Dynasty. The Chinese celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, the earliest can probably be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, and then flourished early in the Song Dynasty, and later in the Ming Dynasty. This is an inference that Li Chen was in the Tang Dynasty.

At least in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was not a big festival, not even a holiday. It proves that the Mid-Autumn Festival was not a great festival in the Tang Dynasty.

You say that on such a day, there will be ****? Of course, there will be. Although there is no holiday in this Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also a tour of the Moon Palace anyway, setting a new date for "Neon Clothes and Feather Song", of course, it should be commemorated. So there is ****.

'Do you know the story of Chang'e's flight to the moon? On the evening of August, Li Chen chattered at Xiaohong, "I don't know, it's okay, I'll tell you." ’

The story of Chang'e running to the moon, was there any in the Tang Dynasty? Li Chen didn't know, anyway, he told a few children, and he listened to it with relish, and now he told Xiaohong again, Xiaohong didn't say that she had heard it, so let's treat it as nothing.

In fact, there is a record, "Zhou Yi" has long recorded, "Xi Chang'e took the medicine of the queen mother's immortality in the west, and then ran to the moon for the moon essence".

And in "Huainanzi", it is said that the moon is really a toad, which was changed by Hou Yi's wife Chang'e, and there is a laurel tree in the moon. Han, Liu Xiang also mentioned in the "Five Classics of General Meaning" that there is a jade rabbit in the moon. Chang'e, toad, laurel tree, and jade rabbit have become cultural symbols representing the moon and important symbols of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

I don't know if there is Chang'e running to the moon, but Wu Gang and Jade Rabbit pound medicine, this Li Chen knows that there is a gain. Li Chen has heard a lot of barnyard official history, and Li Chen knows that Tang Xuanzong got the story of visiting the Moon Palace on August 15.

Legend has it that Emperor Tang Ming was cast by the Taoist, entered the Moon Palace on the 15th day of August, and first saw the gatehouse, and the plaque reads the Mansion of Guanghan and Qingxu, which is the reason why the moon is also called the Guanghan Palace.

He also saw Wu Gang, who kept cutting Gui, and got a white rabbit under the laurel tree, and finally saw the fairies dancing to the accompaniment of beautiful music to welcome him. As a result, he created "The Song of Ni Clothes and Feathers".

'What's wrong with you?' You're weird today. Li Chen talked for a long time, but he didn't react when he saw Xiaohong, so he asked strangely.

'Yes?' Is it weird? Xiaohong touched her cheek, "No, I'm fine." Seeing Li Chenhu's suspicious gaze, Xiaohong diverted the topic, "What is this?" It tastes good. ’

This is called a moon cake, and you see this round one, it doesn't look like the moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. Li Chen picked up a piece of moon cake and gestured to Xiaohong. In fact, Li Chen wanted to say that he had introduced it just now, but you were absent-minded and didn't listen.

'Pretty delicious', Xiaohong took a bite, and when she ate it was delicious, she took another big bite, 'Well, it's crispy and sweet, not bad.' ''Eat more if you like.'' Li Chen said diligently, "Actually, I also prepared some Hu cakes, you can taste them, they are not as delicious as you." ’

Li Chen took a bite of the Hu cake prepared by Xiaohong, which was an ordinary Hu cake, which was much worse than the modern moon cake he prepared.

'Do you have any tips on this?' Xiaohong asked while eating, if it was someone else, she wouldn't ask, after all, this is a unique secret, who will tell you.

The secret is oil, because there is oil to be crispy, and there is oil to have such a level. Li Chen explained, "Knead the lard into the flour." The Tang people still use less oil, and stir-fry will have to go to the Song Dynasty, so food with oil has always been Li Chen's exclusive secret recipe.

'Hehe, do you know where the mooncakes come from? Xiao Hong smiled and threw out a question, he knew that Li Chen liked to hear these stories the most. However, her words surprised Li Chen, did the custom of eating moon cakes exist in the Tang Dynasty?

Everyone knows the origin of moon cakes. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang raised an army against the Yuan, in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Mongols, on the grounds of customs, widely sent moon cakes, and placed a "kill Tartar" note in the cake, thus establishing the Mid-Autumn Festival and the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Why did the Tang Dynasty have this custom?

But if you think about it carefully, it is not impossible that this custom could not have been created by Zhu Yuanzhang, it should have existed before, but it was not as important as in modern times. Otherwise, the Mongols are not stupid, they have a custom out of nothing, and there will always be dogs who tell them that they didn't have this habit before.

There are two legends, the first legend is this, it is said that during the reign of Gaozu, the general Li Jing conquered the Xiongnu and won the victory, and returned triumphantly on August 15. At that time, some Turpan people who were doing business offered cakes to His Majesty to wish him success. Emperor Gao took the round cake, pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a smile and said, "You should invite the toad to the Hu cake." "After saying that, I gave the cakes to the ministers to taste together, and since then it has become popular to eat moon cakes."

After listening to this story, Li Chen smiled, who made it up. There are many flaws, first of all, Li Jing is Turkic, not Xiongnu. Okay, you mean the same thing. Then, when Li Jing broke the Huns, he was already Zhenguan, not Tang Gaozu. It's okay, Li Yuan wasn't dead at that time, he came out to make a bright appearance, and someone offered him a cake, which makes sense.

The biggest problem is that the time is not right, Li Jing took advantage of the heavy snow to break the Turks, the time has already passed August 15, how can the time not be right, who made up such a brainless story.

Another story that Xiaohong said is that at the end of the day, the rebel army rose and fell, and the largest one was the Wagang army. Because of the lack of food, moon cakes were invented to solve the problem of food shortage.

This is even funnier, don't mooncakes be made with grain? There is food for making moon cakes, but there will be a shortage of food... Really, who made up the story, as a professional speaker, Li Chen disliked this peer for being really disrespectful, and the legend was full of flaws, and some people believed it.

'Kouheng, just by looking at you, I know that you dislike this story and won't tell you anymore. Li Chen looked critical, with the expression of that fool making up such a bad story, how could Xiaohong not understand, and ignored Li Chen as soon as he turned his face.

'What other activities are there during the Mid-Autumn Festival, I haven't had any Mid-Autumn Festival before.' It's hard to come out on a date, of course Li Chen doesn't want to save such a yellow, so he hurriedly changed the topic, for this, he has a little experience, and it is better to know what to say, "Those poor children have never had the Mid-Autumn Festival before, if you don't know, we have no one to ask." ’

But is it the Mid-Autumn Festival, what is there to ask. Speaking of those children, Xiaohong will immediately care, "Mid-Autumn Festival is nothing more than worshipping the moon." ’

'How to worship?' ''Just prepare some fruit, put it in the direction of the rising moon, and pray sincerely.'' ', that's it, it's so boring..., Li Chen sighed, "Isn't there a little fun to do?" I always worship, I only worshipped the Weaver Girl on Qixi Festival, and now I want to worship again, how boring.

'Funny words.... Xiaohong thought for a moment, "Yes, let's go and touch the melon." ''Touching melons?'' 'She knows when she touches the fish, what does it mean to touch the melon?'

After Xiaohong's explanation, Li Chen understood that the main thing was to take advantage of the moonlight to go out for a walk, and wherever he went. If you are hungry or thirsty, you can touch a melon or a wild fruit to eat. It can only be said that the ancients were relatively simple, at this time, even if you touch the field, no one will beat you. However, the person who touches the melon will also touch a thirst quenching, and it will not be like the later generations, and he will drive a truck to steal it.

This reminded Li Chen that there seems to be a proverb in later generations, steal green onions, marry well; Stealing vegetables and marrying a good son-in-law.

Folklore says that the later you sleep on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the longer you live. A young girl who goes to bed late that night will make her mother live longer. Then unmarried girls still have the custom of stealing vegetables on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. As long as she steals vegetables from someone else's garden, it means that she will meet a wishful husband.

Whenever this happens, the farmers turn a blind eye to the movement of their vegetable gardens, and at the same time, they don't steal too much vegetables, which is what they mean. As time passed, this tradition gradually disappeared, and there were still people stealing vegetables, but no one was happy. It's just that on the Happy Farm, everyone steals and steals, and some people will be stolen to the point of anger.

'Poof, you said Silla, there is a three-day holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Speaking of interesting activities, he said that there was a holiday, Li Chen regretted the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the imperial court did not have a holiday, Xiaohong told him that Silla had a holiday. In Silla, the Mid-Autumn Festival is an official holiday, and it is celebrated with a three-day holiday.

Li Chen didn't have a good impression of Silla, or that stick country, and when he heard that Xiaohong knew something about Silla, he urged her to say more.

'Do you like Sillaa?' Xiaohong looked at Li Chen's gaze a little strangely, "No, I just want to hear some overseas news." Li Chen was a little weak-hearted and said something about overseas news. Does Quan Datang know that there are many overseas rumors? He once boasted, and then bragged in front of Xiaohong, not saying anything about the first five hundred years, and the next five hundred years.

He knows about tens of thousands of miles overseas in Datang, and shows off a lot of overseas things to Xiaohong. Then he now has to listen to Xiaohong, quite a Tang neighbor, and the matter of Silla is simply a slap in the face.

'Silla, I don't know much. I only heard that the merchants of Silla were very strong in shipping, and the coastal shipping of the Tang Dynasty was almost entirely occupied by the Silla people. ’

'Are the Silla people so powerful?' Li Chen couldn't believe that a big country, with the longest coastline in the world, and all the coastal shipping was occupied by the Silla people, 'Why?' Regarding Li Chen's question, Xiaohong could only say that she didn't know.

Li Chen was full of doubts, but he quickly put it aside, he couldn't control this kind of thing for the time being, don't think about the kind of thing that he can't do anything about, and teased Xiaohong for a while, Li Chen happily ended today's date.

'Master. As soon as Li Chen came home, Wei Xuan came over, "Why, you haven't slept so late?" Wei Xuan's expression was serious, "The master may be unhappy, but the servant still has to tell the master." Seeing that his expression was serious, Li Chen was also stern, originally he wanted to ask Wei Xuan to talk about it tomorrow, but it seemed that it was not appropriate.

But what's wrong with Chen? Please advise Duke Wei', Li Chenyi said in a well-dressed manner, "You know, although you have always regarded yourself as a servant, a certain family has never thought of it like this. If there is any fault of a certain family, please Wei Gong will not hesitate to correct it. ’