What is Mid-Autumn Festival and what to do?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, commonly known as Ghost Festival and ancestor worship festival. On this day, there are mainly activities such as ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots. Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, that is, July 14, almost all families will hold activities such as ancestor worship and burning paper money, and people in some areas will hold them on July 15.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Orchid Festival, originated from ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. In ancient times, July was regarded as auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half were festivals to celebrate harvest and reward the earth. Traditionally, people need to worship their ancestors with new rice and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors.

July 30th is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and it is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors together with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival. 20 10 was listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list.