#autumn moon festival

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

AW SHIT WHYS IT SO EARLY THIS YEAR

Time to eat my body weight in mooncakes i guess!!!!

[milkbabbit]

last year's autumn moon illustration for a brighter note

中秋快乐 zhōng qiū kuài lè 🥮🌕🐇

and happy chuseok and tsukimi too~

[heavenboy09]

Today marks the 1st day of the Mid Autumn 🎑 🍂 Moon 🌙 Festival. This is a day of celebration and legends of old that started in Asia. In China 🇨🇳 a Legend speaks about a Beautiful and Enchanting woman known as Chang'e,  The Moon 🌙 ✨ Goddess.

In Chinese mythology, she is a subject of several legends in China. Referring her as a Beautiful woman who became a Immortal Goddess and wanted to be with her one true love, Houyi The Archer. But for some reason fate kept them separated apart and so with 2 elixirs that would make them Immortal Forever.

Chang'e drank hers but Houyi did not consume his straight away. But let Chang'e keep it with her, as he did not want to gain immortality without his beloved wife. 

However, while Houyi went out hunting, his apprentice Fengmeng broke into his house and tried to force Chang'e to give the Elixir to him. She took them instead of giving them to Fengmeng.

Then, Chang'e flew upward past the Heavens, choosing the Moon 🌙 as a residence, as she loved her husband and hoped to live nearby him.

Houyi discovered what had transpired and felt guilty, so he displayed the fruits and cakes that Chang'e had enjoyed 🥮 , and killed himself.

Such a sad story but the Tale of this has inspired many throughout Centuries to Worship the Moon Goddess 🌙 🙏 ✨ on this day to be thankful and honor her Story with her beloved and hoping she will be reunited once again for all eternity.

Happy Mid Autumn Moon 🥮 Festival  to all of Asia 🌏 and wherever you are to celebrate it.

[cabbi3]

random Clannibal in red

[dailyfalsesymmetry]

day 29

中秋節快樂！！🥮🥮🥮 happy moon festival to all who celebrate!! (it's me i celebrate

(also *insert moon big joke here* there i did it lay off my holiday in the notes

[eled0ra]

Happy moon festival 🌝

[altalerose]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Eat lots of mooncake!

[localsya]

photo study 🥮

Bit late but happy mid autumn festival to everyone who celebrates!

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

moon bridge in fuzhou, fujian province by nuna656691

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

modern flavours mostly snowskin lava mooncakes with different custard

[thelcsdaily]

Mooncake Festival - September 29, 2003

Traditionally consumed during the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, mooncakes are a type of Chinese pastry item. While moonwatching is allegedly related to the event and mooncakes are considered a delicacy, the festival is mostly about the harvest. While commemorating the holiday, mooncakes are shared among friends or at family get-togethers. As one of the four most significant Chinese festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival is well-known.

I get way too much happiness from good food. - Elizabeth Oliver

[milkbabbit]

happy mid autumn moon fest

i wish i could feel more joyful about it this year

[pineapplebread]

Mid autumn nights 中秋快乐

[tendaysofrain]

“How Often Does Such a Bright Moon Come Around?” (水調歌頭 · 明月幾時有) Translation

(Another year, another Mid-Autumn Festival, another poem translation. This particular poem is very famous because of the first and last lines, which are frequently referenced in popular culture. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)

How often does such a bright moon come around?

By Su Shi (Song dynasty, 1076 AD)

Mid-Autumn of the year Bingchen (2), drank all night in celebration, became heavily inebriated.  Composed this poem to commemorate this occasion, and in dedication to Ziyou (3). (4)

How often does such a bright moon come around?  With wine in hand, I ask the heavens.

Wondering what year it is for this day in heaven (5), in the palace high above.

Wishing to ascend on the wind, yet I cannot stand the chilly air around those lofty towers of jade.

Dancing and amused at my own crisp shadow, the frigid heavens surely cannot compare to the mortal realm below.

Rounding the vermilion building, hanging low near the intricate windows, the moon casts light over the sleepless (6).

The moon should not feel bitter jealousy, so why is it only full on parting?

Humans feel grief and joy, partings and reunions, just as the moon waxes and wanes.

For both of these heartening things (7) to happen together is very rare indeed.

May we be blessed with longevity, so that even when thousands of li (8) apart, we can still gaze upon this wonderful moon together.

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Notes:

This poem is in the Ci/词 format, and follows the rhyme scheme (Cipai/词牌) called Shuidiaogetou/水調歌頭/水调歌头.

Bingchen/丙辰 is a year in the Chinese Sexagenary Cycle, which is known in Chinese as Tiangandizhi/天干地支 ("Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches") or simply Ganzhi/干支 ("Stems and Branches"), and is used to record time. This system has been in use since at least the Shang dynasty around 3000 years ago (oracle bone artifact bearing inscriptions of ganzhi has been found at Yinxu/殷墟, the archaeological site of the ancient capital of Shang dynasty; however, during Shang dynasty the Ganzhi system was used to track days and not years, unlike how it has been used in later times). Because there are 60 years in one cycle, it is possible to trace back to specific years. In this case, Bingchen would be exactly 1076 AD.

Ziyou/子由 is the courtesy name of Su Shi's brother, Su Zhe/蘇轍.

This section is a short introduction to the poem, which begins after this section.

This may be a reference to the concept that "a day in heaven is a year on earth" ("天上一天，地上一年"; famously included in Journey to the West), which in turn is a reference to the ecliptic plane (called Huangdao/黄道 in Chinese), since for an observer on Earth, the Sun appears to move in an elliptical path throughout the year. This means that it takes a year (i.e. "a year on earth") for the Sun to "complete" one round in this elliptical path (i.e. "a day in heaven").

Here, "the sleepless" is a reference to the poet himself.

"Both of these heartening things" refers to reunion with family and/or friend, and the occurence of a full moon.

Li/里 is a traditional unit of distance. During Su Shi's time (Northern Song dynasty, 960 AD - 1279 AD), 1 Li ≈ 576 meters = 0.576 km or 0.36 miles (Note: link leads to pdf).

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Original Text (Traditional Chinese):

《 水調歌頭 (1) · 明月幾時有 》

[宋] 蘇軾

丙辰中秋，歡飲達旦，大醉，作此篇，兼懷子由。

明月幾時有？把酒問青天。不知天上宮闕，今夕是何年。 我欲乘風歸去，惟恐瓊樓玉宇，高處不勝寒。起舞弄清影，何似在人間。

轉朱閣，低綺戶，照無眠。不應有恨，何事長向別時圓？ 人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺，此事古難全。但願人長久，千里共嬋娟。

[stellateart]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 🥮🐇✨

[animepopheart]

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