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Overseas version of Wanghai Tower: Mid Autumn Moon Concentric Circle

Zheng Na
04:36, September 21, 2018 | Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
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The moon shines on the sea, and the horizon is at this time.

On September 24, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, we will welcome the annual Mid Autumn Festival. The roller of time turns the cold and hot spring into the gear of the Mid Autumn Festival.

The Mid Autumn Festival is a natural pattern and cycle. Where did the Mid Autumn Festival originate? There are many explanations. One is that the ancient ancestors felt a mysterious power when they saw the full moon, the rising moon and the falling moon. They were in awe and worshipped it. The worship began at the autumnal equinox, when the sun almost directly hit the side of the moon facing the earth, and the moon looked big and round. But soon, people found that August 15 was the full moon, and it was in the middle of the middle of the "three autumns", which was very consistent with the agricultural society's understanding of "spring planting, summer growing, autumn harvest, and winter Tibet". Therefore, "heaven", "earth", "time", and "people" formed a convergence at this node. The simple view of nature of "harmony between man and nature" has inspired people to focus on the special phenomenon of the full moon of the Mid Autumn Festival and form a festival related to harvest and perfection.

The Mid Autumn Festival is secular taste and elegance. How to spend the Mid Autumn Festival? From ancient society to modern life, the Chinese people have "paid attention" to the worship, appreciation, and play of the moon. The people of Zhou Dynasty sacrificed jade and silk to the moon, and the people of Qin and Han Dynasty "sacrificed sheep" to the moon. In the Song Dynasty, the Mid Autumn Festival became a folk festival. The day off became more secular. The moon cake, which was originally used as a sacrifice for the moon, is now a delicacy of "small cakes like chewing the moon, with crispy and delicious food". During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid Autumn Festival became a folk festival and an important time node in people's life. People, depending on the times, regions and nationalities, provided bunny masters, played lanterns, piled pagodas, danced dragons and watched the Qiantang tide, forming their own unique Mid Autumn customs. These customs, carrying the life code from the depths of history, guard the long and lasting festival.

The Mid Autumn Festival is the peak of poetry and romance. Where is the beauty of Mid Autumn Festival? In the aesthetic world of the Chinese people, the bright moon, especially the Mid Autumn Festival moon, is an endless stream of poems, songs, and ideas. Whether it is a childlike innocence that "when you are young, you don't know the moon, and you call it a white jade plate", or the heroism that "when will the moon be bright, ask the sky for wine"; It is the yearning of "the dew is white tonight, and the moon is the bright hometown", or the broad-minded of "the green mountains are together with the clouds and rain, and the bright moon has never been two villages"; It is the loneliness of "people look at the moon tonight, and I don't know who is missing in autumn", or the optimism of "I hope people will live a long time and share the beauty of the moon"; Whether it is the angry sword drawn out of the scabbard that "the chopping goes to the swaying osmanthus, the humanity is true, and the light is more", or the warm blooded responsibility of "the lonely Chang'e spreads her sleeves, thousands of miles in the sky and dances for the loyal soul", the Mid Autumn Festival leaves too much consolation and emotion, too much reverie and imagination, too much nourishment and infiltration for the Chinese people, which seeps into everyone's blood and precipitates into the Chinese temperament and character.

The Mid Autumn Festival is a national collective emotion and cultural identity. What is Mid Autumn Festival? Since ancient times, people have endowed the Mid Autumn Festival with rich emotional connotations. The full moon on the Mid Autumn Festival is the reunion of the family, the reunion of husband and wife, the reunion of relatives and friends, and the harmony of the family. In today's mobile era, homesickness is so strong that many migrant workers working in cities, young people in small towns rooted in big cities, frequent business people, and young students with overseas experience have to face the life situation of being far away from home, busy with work, and under great pressure. The Mid Autumn Festival is like a group of emotional source codes, which can repair people's inner defects, and let the body and mind, At least one was able to go home. The full moon on the Mid Autumn Festival is also the reunion of the country, social harmony, national unity and national unity. Today, China has entered a new era with greater stage, more opportunities and better conditions, calling on more Chinese people to help the development of the motherland and share the Chinese dream. For the Chinese people distributed in different corners of the world, the Mid Autumn Festival is like a strong thread, which links the common national feelings and forms a cultural bond that resonates with the same frequency, so that development and win-win can be achieved.

The Mid Autumn Festival is a common divisor and concentric circle for mutual learning among civilizations. What can the Mid Autumn Festival bring to the world? Although the Mid Autumn Festival is a Chinese festival, it contains the idea of the unity of heaven and man, the tradition of respecting heaven and earth, the feelings of family and country dependence, and the pursuit of happy life, all of which point to the eternal aspirations of mankind, such as peace, perfection, and beauty. In this sense, the Mid Autumn Festival belongs to both China and the world. "The moon is the brightest night of the year, when people from thousands of miles can enjoy it." The moon is for everyone. The moonlight is the most beautiful to enjoy together. In the era of globalization, in the process of promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, the Mid Autumn Moon is not used for "self pity" or "self admiration". Instead, it is used to draw a larger concentric circle, to enrich human civilization, provide spiritual support and spiritual comfort for human beings, and create a better future.

(The author is a commentator of this newspaper)

(Editor in charge: Yue Hongbin, Huang Ceyu)

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