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Why do you eat moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival? How about getting engaged the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?

Why do you eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient ritual, and then it represents a symbol of reunion.

Moon cakes, also called moon dumplings, harvest cakes, palace cakes and reunion cakes, are offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival.

Moon cakes were originally used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion.

Mooncakes symbolize a happy reunion. People regard them as holiday food, use them to worship the moon and give them to relatives and friends.

Today, eating moon cakes has become an essential custom of Mid-Autumn Festival in northern and southern China. People eat moon cakes on this day to show their reunion. How about getting engaged the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?

Lunar calendar: August 2020 14.

Gregorian calendar: Wednesday, September 30th, 2020, Libra.

Today's almanac is appropriate.

Marriage, architecture and travel, groundbreaking words, litigation, ground breaking and drilling.

In addition to burial, it also entered the house to offer sacrifices, pray for blessings and seek heirs.

Resolving the lawsuit of settling livestock on the vertical pillar of immigrants gathering wealth

Open the market and build a house.

Today's old almanac is taboo.

Planting, digging ditches, discharging water, seeking medical treatment, and building dikes for meridians.

Because that is the suitable content of today's lunar calendar, and the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 is suitable for engagement!

Mid-Autumn Festival in Malaysia

Eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon and carrying lanterns are the Mid-Autumn Festival customs handed down from generation to generation by Chinese in Malaysia.

With the approach of Mid-Autumn Festival, time-honored merchants from all over Malaysia have launched various kinds of moon cakes. There are mooncake counters in major shopping malls in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, and mooncake advertisements in newspapers and TV stations are overwhelming, creating a festive atmosphere to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At present, Chinese communities in some places in Kuala Lumpur are holding lantern parades to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to dragon and lion dances, floats carrying Chang 'e and the Seven Fairies wandered the streets, during which artists and young people dressed in bright colors sang and danced.