英文中秋节小知识

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Zhongqiu Festival, or in Chinese, Zhongqiujie (traditional Chinese: 中秋节), is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people and Vietnamese people (even though they celebrate it differently), dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. It was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally "Mid-Autumn Festival") in the Zhou Dynasty. In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival.The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around late September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumn and spring Equinoxes(二分点) of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties.The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Chinese New Year and Winter Solstice(冬至), and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomelos together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as: * Eating mooncakes outside under the moon * Putting pomelo rinds on one's head * Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns * Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang'e (simplified Chinese: 嫦娥; traditional Chinese: 嫦娥) * Planting Mid-Autumn trees * Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members * Fire Dragon DancesShops selling mooncakes before the festival often display pictures of Chang'e floating to the moon.

Mid-Autumn Legend-the moon fairylady Many years ago, there was a king in China. He was a brave man who did lots of belifits to the people. He admired a beautiful girl and made her stay in the palace so that he could see her whenever he wanted. But, the girl did not like the frightful figure of the king. She seldomly spoke a word in the palace. Each time the king went to her place, he used to show her some treasures and brought some gifts to the girl in order to make her smile and speak. On every full moon, the girl would burned incenses and wax candles to worship the moon. People believed that there was a god lived in the moon that made the moon shine. Girls who wanted to be a beauty and have a handsome husband should worship the moon. One day, the full moon of the eighth month, the king brought three herbs pills to show her. "This is from the priest of the palace. If I eat them up, I can live forever." He exclaimed. This was the first time the girl stuffs he brought. He continued,"If you and I both take one, we will both live forever. No one can take you away from me!" Because the king afraid of the pills would have side effects. He forced the girl to take the pill first. If nothing wrong with her after taking the pill, he would take it immediately. However, the girl recognized that if she took all three of them, the king would left her eventually. Therefore, the first time, she spoke to the king,"Let me have a look of the pills first. Otherwise, I will not try at all." The king surprisingly the girl talked to him. So, he handed the pills to the girl. She did not say anything but eat all of them. The king was extremely angry. He wanted to kill her. At this moment, the girl started to fly. She could fly because of the intake of the pills. The king could not catch her, but watched her flew toward the moon and disappeared. After that, people believed that there was a beautiful girl stay in the moon with a little old man and a bunny. The old man was believed to be the god inside the moon and the bunny was his pet. Day after day, Chinese believed that there were people lived in the moon. Their movement made the dark spot when we looked up to the moon. People used to worship the girl to glorify her chastity. So, on every full moon of the mid-Autumn became a festival in order to memorize her. Moon in Chinese Celestial Cosmology The choice of the festival's theme -- celebrating the glories and mysteries of the moon -- was a natural. Along with the sun, the moon has long been an object of human curiosity and worship. "It is probable that sun and moon were early held to be deities and that they were the first visible objects of worship," according to the book "Sketches of the History of Man." To the most ancient ancestors of the Chinese, the sun and the moon were considered the "chief objects of veneration," according to records dating to the Han dynasty emperor Wu Di (157-87 B.C.). In ancient Asian mythology, there is a strong relationship between the moon and water. The moon is said to regulate reservoirs and supplies of water. There is a suggestion that the moon produces fertility and freshness in the soil. The moon's role in bountiful harvests is widely recognized during autumns around the world. In Chinese celestial cosmology, the moon represents the female principle, or yin. During ancient autumn Moon Festivals, women took center stage because the moon is considered feminine. Only women took part in Moon Festival rituals on the night of the full moon. Altars would be set up in households, and when the full moon appeared, women would make offerings of incense, candles, fruit, flowers, and mooncakes. The enduring legend of the Moon Goddess, Chang O (Chang-E in other transliterations), reflects the feminine principle of yin, as opposed to the masculine principle of yang, which is symbolized by the sun.

To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace. The festival is celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest. To the Chinese, a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion.Many traditional and meaningful celebrations are held in most households in China, and China's neighboring countries. The main traditions and celebrations include eating mooncakes, having dinner with family, gazing at and worshipping the moon, and lighting lanterns.

嫦娥奔月 相传，远古时候有一年，天上出现了十个太阳，直烤得大地冒烟，海水枯干，老百姓眼看无法再生活下去。 这件事惊动了一个名叫后羿的英雄，他登上昆仑山顶，运足神力，拉开神弓，一气射下九个多余的太阳。 后羿立下盖世神功，受到百姓的尊敬和爱戴，不少志士慕名前来投师学艺。奸诈刁钻、心术不正的蓬蒙也混了进来。 不久，后羿娶了个美丽善良的妻子，名叫嫦娥。后羿除传艺狩猎外，终日和妻子在一起，人们都羡慕这对郎才女貌的恩爱夫妻。 一天，后羿到昆仑山访友求道，巧遇由此经过的王母娘娘，便向王母求得一包不死药。据说，服下此药，能即刻升天成仙。 然而，后羿舍不得撇下妻子，只好暂时把不死药交给嫦娥珍藏。嫦娥将药藏进梳妆台的百宝匣里，不料被蓬蒙看到了。 三天后，后羿率众徒外出狩猎，心怀鬼胎的蓬蒙假装生病，留了下来。 待后羿率众人走后不久，蓬蒙手持宝剑闯入内宅后院，威逼嫦娥交出不死药。 嫦娥知道自己不是蓬蒙的对手，危急之时她当机立断，转身打开百宝匣，拿出不死药一口吞了下去。 嫦娥吞下药，身子立时飘离地面、冲出窗口，向天上飞去。由于嫦娥牵挂着丈夫，便飞落到离人间最近的月亮上成了仙。 傍晚，后羿回到家，侍女们哭诉了白天发生的事。后羿既惊又怒，抽剑去杀恶徒，蓬蒙早逃走了。气得后羿捶胸顿足哇哇大叫。悲痛欲绝的后羿，仰望着夜空呼唤爱妻的名字。这时他惊奇地发现，今天的月亮格外皎洁明亮，而且有个晃动的身影酷似嫦娥。 后羿急忙派人到嫦娥喜爱的后花园里，摆上香案，放上她平时最爱吃的蜜食鲜果，遥祭在月宫里眷恋着自己的嫦娥。 百姓们闻知嫦娥奔月成仙的消息后，纷纷在月下摆设香案，向善良的嫦娥祈求吉祥平安。从此，中秋节拜月的风俗在民间传开了。 嫦娥奔月的故事以鲜明的态度和绚丽的色彩歌颂、赞美了嫦娥，与古文献有关嫦娥的记载相比较，可见人们对嫦娥奔月的故事做了很多加工，修饰，使嫦娥的形象与月同美，使之符合人们对美的追求。 与现代流传甚广的“嫦娥奔月”相左，《全上古文》辑《灵宪》则记载了“嫦娥化蟾”的故事：“嫦娥，羿妻也，窃王母不死药服之，奔月。将往，枚占于有黄。有黄占之：曰：‘吉，翩翩归妹，独将西行，逢天晦芒，毋惊毋恐，后且大昌。’李商隐曾有诗感叹嫦娥：“嫦娥应悔偷灵药，碧海青天夜夜心。”

在中秋节,也称为中秋,仲秋节,或中文, Zhongqiujie (繁体中文:中秋节),是一种流行的丰年祭,由中国人民和越南人民庆祝(尽管他们有不同的庆祝),追溯到3.000年的月球,在中国的商朝崇拜.它最初称为中秋杰(字面"中秋节")在周朝.在马来西亚,新加坡,菲律宾,有时也被称为灯节,或月饼节. 在中秋节,是举行的第8个月15天的农历,这大约是9月底或10月初一般在公历.这是一个日期,平行于秋季和春季秋分(二分点的太阳历,当月亮是在理应)最充分和圆的.在这个节日的传统食品是月饼,其中有许多不同的品种. 在中秋节是少数几个最重要的农历节日之一,另外三个是农历新年和冬至(冬至),并在若干国家法定假日.农民庆祝在这个日子在夏季收获季节结束.传统上在这一天,中国的家人和朋友将聚集在一起欣赏明亮的中秋月饼,吃月饼和文旦在一起.陪同如庆祝,还有其他文化或区域海关:       *吃月饼外月下      *把一个人的头部蜜柚外皮      *携带明亮的灯笼,灯光塔灯,天灯浮      *燃烧的香敬畏神,包括嫦娥(简体中文:嫦娥,传统中文:嫦娥)       *种植中秋树      *收集蒲公英叶子和家庭成员之间的分配他们均匀      *舞火龙商店出售月饼节之前往往显示嫦娥图片浮动月球.