Why do Chaoshan people fold flower baskets in Mid-Autumn Festival, Yue Bai?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Reunion Festival" and "August Festival". According to "Guoyu Zhou Yu Lun", three generations in China have the custom of "autumn dusk and evening moon". Yue Bai at night. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. "Zhou Li" contains: "In midsummer, I beat the ground to preach" elegance "to welcome the summer heat; On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, the cold remains the same. " The Book of Rites also said: "The son of heaven is in spring, and the sun and moon are in autumn. The Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the evening is in the evening. " According to custom, the evening moon is usually held on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which emperors of all dynasties followed. In Jin Dynasty, there was a Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon, but it didn't become a habit. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Ouyang Zhan said in "Preface to Chang 'an Moon Poetry": "August is in autumn, the season begins in Meng, and the fifteenth day is in the night and the middle of the month. The avenue of the season is cold and hot, and the number of months is round. " "Ming Taizu Miscellaneous Notes" Dai: "On the evening of August 15th, I was able to invite Tang Taizu to visit the Moon Palace and leave, and Ye told him to wear fur. When he arrived at the Moon Palace, it was too cold to support, so Ye gave him two pills of Dan medicine to support him. " It was not until the Song Dynasty that August 15 was officially designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Tokyo Dream Record" said: "Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, shops will sell new wine, and your home will be decorated with terraces. People will compete for restaurants to play with the moon, listen to music thousands of miles away and sit and play until dawn." Moon cakes are listed as holiday delicacies, and Su Dongpo famously said, "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, crisp and stuffed". Mid-Autumn Festival activities in the Southern Song Dynasty are even more colorful: people enjoy the moon or walk along the lake and sea. Above Su Causeway, it is no different from stepping on songs together during the day. And cast 10,000 "Little Red" (small sheepskin lamps) on the river, as beautiful as stars. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many places have also begun to worship the moon god, put sky lanterns, set up Mid-Autumn trees, light lighthouses and other customs.

Why do you want Mother Yue Bai for Mid-Autumn Festival? The legend goes like this:

In ancient times, there were ten suns in the sky, so hot that people died, forests burned, rivers dried up, and human life was miserable. After the worship of Emperor Yao, the Jade Emperor sent the great god Hou Yi down to earth to deal with this matter. The ten suns are all sons of the Emperor of Heaven. Originally, they were ordered to have a sun every day, but they did not give in to each other and rose together at dawn every day. After Hou Yi came to earth, he asked them to abide by the rules of heaven, and only one sun appeared in a day. However, they didn't pay attention to Hou Yi and didn't listen at all. Hou Yi couldn't help it any longer. He drew his bow and arrow, swishing and swishing, shooting down nine suns at once. The rest of the sun turned pale with fear and hurried west. When the Emperor of Heaven learned that his nine sons had been shot, he flew into a rage and ordered the Houyi couple not to return to heaven. Chang 'e's eyebrows bristled with anger, blaming her husband for being so reckless, offending the Emperor of Heaven and causing her great trouble. Later, she stole the elixir and wanted to go to heaven; However, after the gods in the sky found out that Chang 'e had betrayed her husband and stole the elixir, they accused her and despised her. Therefore, Chang 'e dared not go to heaven and went to the Cold Moon Palace instead. The Emperor of Heaven never gave up, so he turned her into a rabbit and made her work for the immortals every month. People worship the Moon Mother because they miss Hou Yi's efforts to eradicate great harm for the people.