What is Mid-Autumn Festival?

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as July 30th, July14th, Ancestors' Day, Arahara Festival and Local Officials' Day, is a major traditional festival in China.

Zhongyuan Festival is a Taoist name, commonly known as July 30, July 14, auspicious month, stone drum and fasting, and Buddhism calls it Yulanben Festival. "July 30th" was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival" and originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices.

This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.