The lunar calendar of Mid-Autumn Festival in the Year of the Tiger in 2022 should be avoided. What is the significance of eating moon cakes?

Mid-Autumn Festival in the Year of the Tiger in 2022 should be avoided.

Gregorian calendar: Virgo (Gregorian calendar) September 2022 10 Saturday

Lunar calendar: August 2022 15 (lunar calendar)

Suitable for the old yellow calendar

Get married, get engaged, start business, decorate, move in, pick up a car, start signing a contract, start moving in, sign a wedding, deliver a house, get a license, move to get money, start marriage, open a market, bring livestock into the house, move a grave, collect debts and see a doctor.

Taboo of the old yellow calendar

Go to work, get a haircut, do business, go to the ground, travel on business, trade, get a bed, bury your ears, buy a car, go to school, study and repair your house, go out and move your bed, cut your nails, see a doctor, build a wall, fish, hunt, bury your ears, invest in shipbuilding and eat moon cakes.

Eating moon cakes is a sign of reunion. Moon cakes, also known as Hu cakes, Palace cakes, Moon dumplings, Harvest cakes, Reunion cakes, etc. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon. On August 15, the moon is full, and the Mid-Autumn moon cakes are fragrant and sweet. This famous proverb tells the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually, moon cakes became a necessary gift for the festival.