Festival customs of Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Worship Festival. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time. 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.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and Chinese areas around the world. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20th, 2006, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council, China listed it as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Chinese name

Mid-Autumn Festival

Foreign name

Mid-Autumn Festival

Another name

Mid-Autumn Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Night and Reunion Festival

Festival time

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

Festival type

One of the four traditional festivals in China.

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The Origin and Local Characteristics of Mid-Autumn Festival Folk Culture

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Brief introduction to the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival. Do you know the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival?

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Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of worshipping the moon. At the autumnal equinox, it is an ancient "Mid-Autumn Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the traditional "Mid-Autumn Festival". In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies become the objects of ancestor worship. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of offering sacrifices to the moon. Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God". According to research, "Mid-Autumn Festival" was originally set on the day of autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, because the days of August in the summer calendar are different every year, there may not be a full moon. Later, the Mid-Autumn Festival moved from the autumnal equinox to the 15th day of August in the summer calendar. The Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon and enjoying it since ancient times, and it has been passed down to this day for a long time. [ 1][2][3][4][5][6][7]