What is the most appropriate food to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What is the meaning of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the second largest traditional festival in my country. What is the most appropriate food to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival? What is the meaning of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival? Are there any other customs for the Mid-Autumn Festival? The eighth month of the lunar calendar is also called "Mid-Autumn", and every autumn rain brings a chill. Shuimoxiansheng.com will accompany you through every day of the eighth lunar month of 2019.What is the most appropriate food to eat during the Mid-Autumn Festival?The most appropriate food for Mid-Autumn Festival is probably mooncakes. Mooncakes symbolize reunion, and their tradition should have started in the Ming Dynasty. If we look at the information about mooncakes and Mid-Autumn Festival customs in the Ming Dynasty, we should be able to see the historical trajectory of how mooncakes symbolize reunion: after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family sits together to share mooncakes and moon fruits (offerings to the moon). Because mooncakes are round and are shared by the whole family, they gradually came to represent family reunion.What is the meaning of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival?Mooncakes symbolize reunion. The Mid-Autumn Festival is not just about eating mooncakes, but about the reunion they represent. When people taste mooncakes, they often think of the sweet reunion in life . Therefore, we say that eating mooncakes is meant to pursue a happy reunion. Those who are not reunited hope for reunion. Originally, a family is reunited and prays to never be separated. Therefore, people who work away from home bring mooncakes home to express their friendship. When the elders at home share the mooncakes after the moon worship, they also have to save some for their children who live away from home for them to eat when they come back. Even if there is no possibility for them to come back to eat, they have to save some, otherwise, there will be no reunion.When is Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019?Lunar calendar: August 15, 2019Gregorian calendar: Friday, September 13, 2019, Virgo 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Nacai, marry, recruit a son-in-law, build a house, pray for blessings, open the market, accept wealth, offer sacrifices, pray for an heir, release, bury, take up a post, plant crops, accept livestock, fast and offer sacrifices, go to school, tailor clothes, pray for wealth, wear a hairpin [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Moving, moving into a new house, installing incense, litigation, raising beams, erecting pillars, installing beds, building, breaking ground, traveling, going out to seek medical advice The arrival of 2019 proves that your fortune has changed. Calculate your fortune in advance, correct your mistakes if any, and encourage yourself if there are none, so that the new year will be smooth and safe. If you want to know more detailed fortunes for 2019, please click on the [ Premium Calculation ] below. I wish you peace and happiness in the new year! |
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