节日介绍：中秋节的由来

中秋佳节即将到来，关于中秋节的来历和习俗及中秋节的传说等你知道和了解多少呢？作文地带给您娓娓道来：

The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, usually in October in Gregorian calendar.

每年农历八月十五日，是传统的中秋佳节。这时是一年秋季的中期，所以被称为中秋。

The festival has a long history. In ancient China, emperors followed the rite o f offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and to the moon in autumn. Historical books of the Zhou Dynasty had had the word “Mid-Autumn”.

中秋节有悠久的历史，和其它传统节日一样，也是慢慢发展形成的，古代帝王有春天祭日，秋天祭月的礼制，早在《周礼》一书中，已有“中秋”一词的记载。

Later aristocrats and literary figures helped expand the ceremony to common people.  They enjoyed the full, bright moon on that day, worshiped it and expressed their thoughts and feelings under it.

后来贵族和文人学士也仿效起来，在中秋时节，对着天上又亮又圆一轮皓月，观赏祭拜，寄托情怀，这种习俗就这样传到民间，形成一个传统的活动。

By the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Mid-Autumn Festival had been fixed, which became even grander in the Song Dynasty (960-1279). In the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, it grew to be a major festival of China.

一直到了唐代，这种祭月的风俗更为人们重视，中秋节才成为固定的节日，《唐书•太宗记》记载有“八月十五中秋节”，这个节日盛行于宋朝，至明清时，已与元旦齐名，成为我国的主要节日之一。

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