057 The Mid-Autumn Festival in Ancient Times...

What Xiaocui said was indeed what she said in her heart, she promised Ouyang Xinyu to help her because she was afraid that if she ran away, she would be blamed by the lord and the lady, and lose her life. Please remember the URL of this site: . Later, she found that this girl named Ouyang Xinyu was very kind, so she decided to really want to help her.

Calm down and think about it, what Xiaocui said also makes sense. Since the lord and the lady agreed to let them go to the temple fair together, they will definitely have the opportunity to go out in the future. On this big night, although there is a moon hanging in the sky, it is indeed dangerous for two girls to go to the edge of the cliff on the mountain on such a night. It's not that Xiao Cui doesn't want to help Ouyang Xinyu, but now is not the time to help her, they need to wait for a better time.

"So, what you promised to help me with is yes?" began to hear Xiaocui say that she was afraid that she would lose her life because she helped her, she was a little angry, thinking that Xiaocui's girl didn't talk much, maybe she didn't want to help her at all, she was just using her. Later, when I heard Xiao Cui say this, the anger in my heart suddenly disappeared.

"Yes, miss. But Xiaocui asked Miss to focus on the overall situation, otherwise Xiaocui would have died before she could help Miss. ”

"Xiaocui, you remember that you promised me that you must do it, and you must not regret it!"

"Of course, how could Xiao Cui lie to Miss? However, Miss you have to listen to Xiaocui for now, after all, this is in our ancient times and not in your modern times, and there are many rules here that you don't know. ”

"I see, can't I listen to you for anything in the future?"

"Miss Xinyu, you must believe in Xiaocui, Xiaocui will not harm you. We need opportunities, we need more, bigger opportunities, you know? ”

"Xiaocui, I'm sorry, you're so good to me, I still doubt you."

"Miss, your suspicions are normal, if this incident happened to Xiao Cui instead, it might be even worse. So, you don't blame yourself anymore. ”

"Xiaocui, aren't you angry with me?" Ouyang Xinyu thought that she suspected that Xiao Cui's question just now would make Xiao Cui feel unhappy, so she was very worried just now. She stole a glance at Xiao Cui and asked her in a whisper.

"No, how could Xiao Cui be angry with Miss? If it were Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui would think like Miss, why should Xiao Cui be angry with Miss? ”

"Xiaocui, you are so good, I will never doubt you again in the future!"

"Miss, then hurry up and change your clothes, let's go to the temple fair in the evening! Perhaps, you can meet a personable, tall and handsome boy! In order to liven up the atmosphere, Xiaocui began to tease Ouyang Xinyu again.

"If you really meet such a son, Xiaocui, don't rob me!" Ouyang Xinyu's mood suddenly changed for the better, and she even joked with Xiao Cui.

"Where do I dare to rob Miss of your sweetheart, if the lord and Mrs. know, they won't kill me alive!"

Once a person's mood becomes relaxed, the time will suddenly feel faster. Soon it was time for dinner again, and Mrs. Shangguan told Xiaocui that she didn't have to accompany the young lady back to the room after dinner. Take a break in the precincts and head straight to the fair.

For a long time, the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival had the custom of worshiping the moon, admiring the moon, and watching the lanterns. After the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the relationship between the times, the practical utilitarian factors in social life were prominent, the secular taste in the festivals of the year was strong, the lyrical and mythical literati tradition centered on "moon appreciation" weakened, and the utilitarian worship, prayer and secular emotions and wishes constituted the main form of the Mid-Autumn Festival customs of ordinary people. Therefore, the "folk moon worship" has become a month for people who yearn for reunion, happiness and happiness.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very ancient custom in our country. According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, the ancient emperors had the custom of sacrificing the day of the spring equinox, the summer solstice, the autumn equinox, and the winter solstice. The places of worship are called the Temple of the Sun, the Temple of Earth, the Temple of the Moon, and the Temple of Heaven. It is located in four directions: southeast, northwest and northwest. The Temple of the Moon in Beijing is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors worshipped the moon. "The Book of Rites" contains: "The Son of Heaven is the sun in spring, and the moon is in autumn." The morning of the sun, the evening of the setting moon. "The night of the setting moon here refers to the night sacrifice to the moon. This custom was not only practiced by the court and the upper nobility, but also gradually affected the people with the development of society.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sky is as clear as water, and the moon is as bright as a mirror, which can be described as the beautiful scenery of a good day, but people are not satisfied with this, so there is a custom of lighting lamps to help the moonlight. In the Huguang area, there is a custom of stacking towers with tiles to light lamps on the towers. In the Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making lightboats. In modern times, the custom of lighting lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival is more prevalent. Today's Zhou Yunjin and He Xiangfei said in the article "Leisure Trying to Talk about the Seasons": Guangdong Zhang Lantern is the most prosperous, and each family uses bamboo to tie lanterns ten days before the festival. Fruits, birds, beasts, fish and insects and the words "Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival" are painted in various colors.

The Mid-Autumn Festival night light is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, and the tall tree is placed on the eaves or terrace, or the small lamp is built into a glyph or various shapes, and hung on the height of the house, commonly known as the 'tree Mid-Autumn Festival' or 'vertical Mid-Autumn Festival'. The lamp hung by the rich house can be several feet high, the family gathers under the lamp to drink and have fun, and the ordinary people erect a flag pole and two lanterns, and also enjoy themselves. The lights of the city are nothing less than the glass world. It seems that from ancient times to the present, the custom of lighting lanterns in the Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival.

After dinner, the two strings of red lanterns on both sides of the gate of Shangguan Mansion were lit, and Shangguan Mansion was immediately bathed in a festive festivities. In ancient times, in addition to worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, and watching lanterns, what other programs were there? It seems that there is a story about playing with the rabbit in "The Palace Maid's Talk".

At that time, it was the year when the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, the Empress Dowager Cixi escaped from Kyoto, and the way to escape coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival. The story says that after dinner, according to the custom of the palace, the queen will go to worship the 'Taiyin Jun'. This is probably along the northeast custom of 'men don't worship rabbits, women don't sacrifice stoves', and 'Taiyin Jun' is sacrificed by the housewives of each family.

In the southeast corner of the courtyard, set up an offering table, please come out of the god code (a piece of paper printed with a big rabbit pounding medicine in the moon palace), inserted in the incense altar. The incense altar is a square bucket, and the bucket in the north of Jin is not round, but square. On the street, I sometimes hear the people of northern Jin singing 'round but the moon is not square, but the square is not fighting, and the sweetness is not the gentleness of Sister Ga's. It can be seen that the buckets in northern Jin are all square. The bucket is filled with new sorghum, and the mouth of the bucket is pasted with yellow paper, and there are four plates of fruit and four plates of moon cakes on the table, and the moon cakes are stacked half a foot high.

In addition, there is a large wooden plate in the middle, and there are round moon cakes with a diameter of one foot long, which are specially made for rabbit sacrifices. There are also two sprigs of new edamame. Four bowls of clear tea are made by putting the tea leaves in a bowl and rinsing them with cold water. In this way, the queen will take the concubine, Gege and all of us to complete the ceremony, and the ceremony will be completed. We are all runaways, very superstitious, lest we have a little bad manners, offend the gods and ghosts, and bring disaster upon ourselves.

This story is about the rules of worshipping the moon rabbit in the court of the Qing Dynasty, although it was in the midst of the escape, the incense altar had to be replaced by the square bucket of the northern Jin Dynasty, but from a psychological point of view, because in the difficulty, it was more fearful and pious to the gods. Judging from this story, the Qing Dynasty court called the jade rabbit in the moon the Taiyin Jun.

However, the folk are different, and the people call it the Jade Rabbit Lord, although this title is not as solemn as the Taiyin Junyan sΓΉ, but it is more cordial. In the folk customs around Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifice to the rabbit is really not solemn enough and the game is more than enough, although it seems that there is little respect for the gods, but it reflects the alienation of the folk god-worshipping psychology. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival has been transformed from the ritual of sacrificing the moon into a folk festival, it has diluted the color of etiquette, and the nature of tourism has become more and more prominent, and the custom of playing with rabbits can be said to be a strong evidence of this phenomenon.