The Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: Life Essays - Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Phoenix City is as bright as a rainbow: Life Essays - Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival The Renchen Mid-Autumn Festival finally arrives on Sunday. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for appreciating and worshiping the moon, and is most suitable to be held at night...

The Phoenix City is full of energy: Life Essays - Celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Renchen Mid-Autumn Festival finally arrived on Sunday. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for appreciating and worshiping the moon. It is best to celebrate at night. Every year, my family will set up an incense burner on the table when the moon rises on the 15th night of the eighth lunar month, place moon cakes, taro, grapefruit and other fruits, burn incense and worship the moon. If there are no other important things, the children will celebrate the festival at home and reunite the moon and the moon. My family’s custom of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival remains unchanged, as it is in Vietnam and the United States. However, it is more lively in Vietnam because neighbors celebrate together, Chinese and Vietnamese people enjoy the moon together, and the joyful scene of children playing with lanterns in the streets is filled with joyful laughter. The Vietnamese government has designated the Mid-Autumn Festival as Vietnamese Children’s Day, which is very meaningful! In the United States, it is much simpler. Where there is a Chinatown, there is still some atmosphere. Without it, it is like "a deaf man breaking a bamboo - not hearing anything during the holidays." I live in the west district of Phoenix City. On this Mid-Autumn Festival night, the moonlight was bright and the neighborhood was quiet. Only the family in the back was swimming and having fun. There was noise. My husband, wife and daughter worshiped and admired the moon in the backyard as usual. Guofeng and his wife also came back to celebrate the reunion. The eldest son did not return from a trip to the city, but the younger son chose to spend the holiday in a warm world of two. In addition to celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival at home, I also participate in some gatherings of overseas Chinese community groups. The earliest was the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala of the Kaiping Association four weeks ago, the most recent was the banquet of the Senior Citizens Association two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the celebration of the Vietnamese community on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival banquet held by the Phoenix Chinese Senior Citizens Association was only two days away from the Mid-Autumn Festival. It was organized very successfully. My husband and I had already registered to participate. There were a large number of senior friends attending, and the venue was packed. Leaders from the Overseas Chinese Association also came to host it, which made it seem grand. Celebration programs were unveiled one after another, with the Cantonese singing group taking the lead and launching a chorus with loud and clear voices; musicians continued to perform Cantonese music, and members sang Cantonese opera to satisfy the public's preferences and receive applause. The Mandarin group also had a strong lineup and performed well, with each tune soaring and resounding throughout the venue; followed the model's fashion pose performance, lightly moving lotus steps, dancing to the song, graceful and graceful, turning behind her, like an eighteenth-year-old girl, without any signs of aging! The party meals were also rich, with mooncakes and cakes given away, and fresh milk and fruits shared. Everyone was satisfied and happy. As for the celebration of the Vietnamese community on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Eastern District is held at the New World Supermarket Plaza in Mesa City, and the Western District is held at the Tathagata Zen Temple in Galendai City. There are singing and dancing programs to entertain guests, many educational games to induce children, and gifts of lanterns and toys. There is no admission fee and free seating. It attracts many guests, old and young, to come and watch. There is no distinction between each other, and the environment of public enjoyment is fully developed. I chose to go to the New World in East District. My husband, my wife, and my family of four, Guo Xing and Guo Xin, made an appointment with my brother-in-law, Chen Caishun, and my husband, Wang Churong, and their families to taste Vietnamese food and enjoy the celebratory performances. The scene was very lively and crowded, and I met many Vietnamese friends, chatting and celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival together. It is a good sign that everyone attaches great importance to celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival. After all, it is a major festival for the Chinese and Vietnamese people. In the traditional lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival ranks second after the Spring Festival and should be celebrated enthusiastically. The only drawback is that some festival activities are too far away from the correct date, and they lack a deep impression on the next generation and are unclear. Looking at the celebration gatherings organized by various groups, I think New Oriental Art School is the best. It held the "Golden Autumn Chinese Dance Performance" at the Chandler Art Center on the afternoon of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It truly catered to the festival and deserves applause! The meaning of the Mid-Autumn Festival is to celebrate reunion, and worshiping the moon with mooncakes is the main ritual. The bright moon represents the completeness of the family, so it is also called the Reunion Festival. In ancient times, many poets and poets left their hometowns and often missed the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Over the thousands of years, they wrote countless beautiful poems that have been passed down to future generations. There are many legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is best to tell them as a family celebration so that children and grandchildren can have a special concept of the festival. In the Tang Dynasty, "Tang Minghuang visited the Moon Palace" was the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship. The earliest moon stories include "Chang'e flying to the moon", "Hou Yi shooting the moon", "Wu Gang conquering the Gui", "Jade Rabbit making medicine", etc. Although they are myths and legends, they show the special color of custom culture. The custom of mooncakes and jacquard lanterns for the Mid-Autumn Festival began when Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising overthrew the Yuan Dynasty. Mooncakes were distributed on the Mid-Autumn Festival, containing secret notes about the uprising. At night, every household lit lanterns in response and established the Ming Dynasty. We can also tell the knowledge about modern rockets' expedition to the moon to add new sentiments to the Mid-Autumn Festival. For example, in 1967, the American Sun God manned the moon landing, which shocked the world. At that time, Vietnam's Far East Daily published a limerick. Some readers used it as a new topic to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is also interesting: In ancient times, Chang'e landed on the moon, and now Apollo landed on the moon. If Chang'e really met, what would one say in one Chinese and one foreign language?