Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all Chinese members

[ahojunk]

I just found out that today is mid-Autumn.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all Chinese members.

 

[AndrewJin]

@ahojunk Thanks mod.....

Happy Mid-Autumn Day from Railbaby

 

[jkroo]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, guys.

It's an important traditional festival for us. Wish all can gather together with families and be safty.

 

[Dungeness]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to All PDF Members!

 

[ahojunk]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to All PDF Members!

@Dungeness

What have these got to do with the Mid-Autumn Festival?

 

[Dungeness]

@Dungeness

What have these got to do with the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Both happen today, and it is not coincident. There is no better news for someone frequents defense forum than the appearance of highly anticipated catapult take-off J-15B (nickname Mid-Autumn) equipped with 14-T thrust brand new WS-10B engine.

 

[Götterdämmerung]

Happy Mid-Autumn

 

[yusheng]

 

[The Sandman]

Happy Mid-Autumn would love to know more about this festival.

 

[ahojunk]

Keep in mind the following is a legend.

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Mid-autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival and mooncakes

The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, usually in mid or late September according to Gregorian calendar. It is a traditonal Chinese festival during which the most popular food is moon cakes.

The festival has a long history. In ancient China, emperors followed the rite of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and to the moon in autumn. Historical books of the Zhou Dynasty had had the word "Mid-Autumn". Later aristocrats and literary figures helped expand the ceremony to common people. They enjoyed the full, bright moon on that day, worshipped it and expressed their thoughts and feelings under it. By the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Mid-Autumn Festival had been fixed, which became even grander in the Song Dynasty(960-1279). In the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, it grew to be a major festival of China.

Folklore about the origin of the festival go like this: In remote antiquity, there were ten suns rising in the sky, which scorched all crops and drove people into dire poverty. A hero named Hou Yi was much worried about this, he ascended to the top of the Kunlun Mountain and, directing his superhuman strength to full extent, drew his extraordinary bow and shot down the nine superfluous suns one after another. He also ordered the last sun to rise and set according to time. For this reason, he was respected and loved by the people and lots of people of ideals and integrity came to him to learn martial arts from him. A person named Peng Meng lurked in them.

Hou Yi had a beautiful and kindhearted wife named Chang E. One day on his way to the Kunlun Mountain to call on friends, he ran upon the Empress of Heaven Wangmu who was passing by. Empress Wangmu presented to him a parcel of elixir, by taking which, it was said, one would ascend immediately to heaven and become a celestial being. Hou Yi, however, hated to part with his wife. So he gave the elixir to Chang E to treasure for the time being. Chang E hid the parcel in a treasure box at her dressing table when, unexpectedly, it was seen by Peng Meng.

One day when Hou Yi led his disciples to go hunting, Peng Meng, sword in hand, rushed into the inner chamber and forced Chang E to hand over the elixir. Aware that she was unable to defeat Peng Meng, Chang E made a prompt decision at that critical moment. She turned round to open her treasure box, took up the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. As soon as she swallowed the elixir her body floated off the ground, dashed out of the window and flew towards heaven. Peng Meng escaped.

When Hou Yi returned home at dark, he knew from the maidservants what had happened. Overcome with grief, Hou Yi looked up into the night sky and called out the name of his beloved wife when, to his surprise, he found that the moon was especially clear and bight and on it there was a swaying shadow that was exactly like his wife. He tried his best to chase after the moon. But as he ran, the moon retreated; as he withdrew, the moon came back. He could not get to the moon at all.

Thinking of his wife day and night, Hou Yi then had an incense table arranged in the back garden that Chang E loved. Putting on the table sweetmeats and fresh fruits Chang E enjoyed most, Hou Yi held at a distance a memorial ceremony for Chang E who was sentimentally attached to him in the palace of the moon.

When people heard of the story that Chang E had turned into a celestial being, they arranged the incense table in the moonlight one after another and prayed kindhearted Chang E for good fortune and peace. From then on the custom of worshiping the moon spread among the people.

People in different places follow various customs, but all show their love and longing for a better life. Today people will enjoy the full moon and eat moon cakes on that day.

The moon looks extremely round, big and bright on the 15th day of each lunar month. People selected the August 15 to celebrate because it is a season when crops and fruits are all ripe and weather pleasant. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, all family members or friends meet outside, putting food on tables and looking up at the sky while talking about life. How splendid a moment it is!

 

[AndrewJin]

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http://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival-poems.htm

There are tons of traditional poems related to Mid-autumn Festival....festival, homesickness, moons.....

The following two are perhaps the most famous, both require recitation during compulsory education.
The first one is familiar to any Chinese kid in mainland China, HK, Macao and Taiwan before 5 year old....
It's normally the first Chinese poem taught by their parents....


http://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival-poems.htm


1 静夜思

The second one is the most beautiful one, written by Song Dynasty poet Su Shi (He built Su Causeway over the West Lake in Hangzhou).
It's a classical 水调歌头(shuidiao getou) style of poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuidiao_Getou

I guess it's kind of long (though not really long compared other poems on Chinese textbooks in middle school), the poem is taught during middle school. But most Chinese students start to know this poem since very young age....And the pop music based on this poem makes it very popular in Chinese-speaking regions around the world.

2 水调歌头

Now a beautiful song is based on this poem.....
（Lyrics is 100% poem lines from the start to the end.....)

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[AViet]

When I was in Korea, people normally take 01 week leave for this festival. Train and bus were overcrowded since people went back to their home in the countryside for family union. The festival is celebrated much like New Year festival in Chinese societies and Vietnam. I think Korean people consider this festival more important than Lunar New Year holidays.

In North Vietnam, traditionally it was the festival for children only. Most adults did not care about it, except that they had to buy gifts and toys for their children. Living quarter administrative unit used to be responsible to organize the festival.

But now, influenced by others, we increasingly see it as a festival for all people. Companies also buy moon cakes and gifts for their staff.

 

[AndrewJin]

When I was in Korea, people normally take 01 week leave for this festival. Train and bus were overcrowded since people went back to their home in the countryside for family union. The festival is celebrated much like New Year festival in Chinese societies and Vietnam. I think Korean people consider this festival more important than Lunar New Year holidays.

In North Vietnam, traditionally it was the festival for children only. Most adults did not care about it, except that they had to buy gifts and toys for their children. Living quarter administrative unit used to be responsible to organize the festival.

But now, influenced by others, we increasingly see it as a festival for all people. Companies also buy moon cakes and gifts for their staff.

Yes, it's another time for family members to get together....
Expressways in Wuhan have been congested since today morning.....
In ancient time, people especially those officers (poets themselves) serving hundreds of miles away from home (mostly forbidden to serve their own hometown), could not go home on this day....So they wrote poems, and mid-festival-related poems are mostly about home sickness.....

The theme song of this year's festival gala

OMG....
Li Zongwei in Malaysia just greeted Lin Dan via CCTV....
He said,
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all Chinese around the world....
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to Lin Dan

@powastick @Nan Yang @CAPRICORN-88

 

[AndrewJin]

CCTV4 Festival Gala live (will start from 8pm Beijing time)
This year's gala will be held in Xi'an @Chinese Bamboo

Chinese singings from around the world will perform during the 2-hour gala (8-10pm Beijing time) with 27 songs, dance or operas.

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[SBUS-CXK]

When I was in Korea, people normally take 01 week leave for this festival. Train and bus were overcrowded since people went back to their home in the countryside for family union. The festival is celebrated much like New Year festival in Chinese societies and Vietnam. I think Korean people consider this festival more important than Lunar New Year holidays.

In North Vietnam, traditionally it was the festival for children only. Most adults did not care about it, except that they had to buy gifts and toys for their children. Living quarter administrative unit used to be responsible to organize the festival.

But now, influenced by others, we increasingly see it as a festival for all people. Companies also buy moon cakes and gifts for their staff.

I am gratified that you do not have think the Mid-Autumn Festival is a SK invention.


Joke, joke.