What festival is 8 15?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China, and falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional festivals in China, which was as famous as the Spring Festival.

Influenced by China culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20th, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating Yue Bai, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to this day and last forever. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

The historical origin of Mid-Autumn Festival;

As early as the Zhou ceremony, the word Mid-Autumn Festival appeared. The Book of Rites says that the son of heaven is in spring, the sun is in autumn and the moon is in autumn. The autumn evening in the Spring and Autumn Period, which means Yue Bai, began with emperors and spread among the people. Autumn is the harvest season, and autumn means that crops are ripe. Mid-Autumn Festival in August, all kinds of crops and fruits are ripe. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their inner joy, farmers regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival and autumn. August of the lunar calendar is the middle month of autumn, and the fifteenth is the middle of this month. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from this. In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival became popular and became a fixed traditional festival.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, August 15 was fixed as the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was in line with the emergence of seasonal food. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the activities of enjoying the moon were still popular and have been passed down to this day.