What festival is the moonlit tide depicting?

Watch the tide on a moonlit night and depict the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Song Li (active in 1 190- 1264) watches the tide on a moonlit night. This is the tide-watching situation in Lin 'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) in the Southern Song Dynasty. Under the high moon, the waves rolled straight; In the attic of the gorgeous platform by the river, you can vaguely see someone shuttling and pointing. There are no congested traffic and noisy crowds in the whole picture. Instead, distant mountains, rivers, sails, moonlight, silver waves, a peaceful and quiet scene.

Song Li, who works in the Southern Song Dynasty Painting Academy, pays more attention to painting flowers and birds, pavilions and rural life. In this "Moon Watching the Tide", Song Li described exquisite pavilions and sparkling Jiang Tao with extremely delicate emotions and brushstrokes, and also wrote a poem by Su Shi, "Shut the door and turn off the key, and leave the tide in the middle of the moon", which is a masterpiece with exquisite scenes.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. The enduring 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 synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins. 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. At first, the festival of "Sacrificing the Moon" was held on the "Autumn Equinox" of the twenty-four solar terms in the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was moved to August 15th in the summer calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Influenced by China culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. On May 20th, 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday.