The word Mid-Autumn Festival first appeared in Zhou Li, which originated from the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors. "Book of Rites" records: "The son of heaven is in the hot sun in spring and the autumn moon sets. The DPRK, the evening of the moon. " The Mid-Autumn Festival has had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times, which has been passed down to this day and lasted forever.
The Mid-Autumn Festival takes the full moon as a symbol of people's reunion, hoping for a bumper harvest and happiness. The ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion, so August 15 was also called "Reunion Festival".
In Buddhist scriptures, "full moon" is often used as a metaphor for the perfection of merit, and there is also a metaphor of "Buddha's face is like a full moon". It is compassion to see the Buddha's heart at the full moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day of family reunion and an opportunity for the whole family to do good.
"There are thousands of good things. If you don't stop, don't kill." If you want to be happy and complete, you must open up the cultivation of inner good thoughts and reduce evil thoughts, evil deeds and bad words. We cherish our own lives and the lives of our animal friends. Choosing vegetarian food is unbearable for animal friends, and it is also a blessing for themselves and their families.
From the health point of view, we should also be vegetarian, moisten dryness and tonify spleen. Mid-Autumn Festival is the dividing point of climate change in a year. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather turned cold obviously, the temperature difference between morning and evening was large, and the metabolism of the human body gradually slowed down, making it easy to catch a cold and cough. People are in harmony with heaven and earth, and health care focuses on latent yang and nourishing yin. All emotions, exercise, eating and dressing related to rising yang and dispersing yang should be restrained.
"All beings have Buddha nature", and August 15th is a traditional festival in China. On such an extraordinary day, please be a vegetarian, recite scriptures, hold spells, worship Buddha, and come back to pray for Buddha's blessing, so that all beings are complete and animal friends are round and round.
Mid-Autumn Festival vegetarian, vegetarian moon cakes are recommended. Vegetarian moon cakes are required to be made in a vegetarian environment. The whole moon cake does not contain any animal oil or meat. If the cake stuffing is fried, you must use vegetable oil, which is natural and healthy.
Buddhist believers should choose vegetarian moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, which is not only natural and healthy, but also has the significance of spreading Buddhism. You can also practice blessing, pray for Buddha's grace and quilt, endless happiness and full moon reunion.