How many days before Mid-Autumn Festival?

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022?

Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022: Saturday, September 2022 10 (the 15th day of the eighth lunar month)!

The origin of the festival:

The autumnal equinox is an ancient festival in Yue Bai, and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional autumnal equinox moon worship festival. According to textual research, the original Mid-Autumn Festival was set at the autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, due to the integration of calendars in historical development, the lunar calendar (summer calendar) was used, and then the "Moon Festival" was moved from the 24 solar terms "Autumn Equinox" to the summer calendar 15. It is a synthesis of seasonal customs of Mid-Autumn Festival, and most of its holiday customs have ancient origins.

How many days before Mid-Autumn Festival?

There are still 67 days to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival!

Mid-Autumn Festival custom:

Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival with a long history, and offering sacrifices to the moon is also a very old custom. According to historical records, as early as the Zhou Dynasty, ancient emperors had the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox, to the earth at the summer solstice, to the moon at the autumnal equinox, and to heaven at the winter solstice. The places where people worship are called Ritan, Ditan, Yuetan and Tiantan. Located in four directions of southeast and northwest. The Moon Altar in Beijing was the place of Emperor Yue Bai of Ming and Qing Dynasties. "Book of Rites" records: "The son of heaven welcomes the sun in spring and the moon sets in autumn. The day of the Asahi, the night of the moon. " Moonlit night here refers to the worship of the moon at night. This custom is not only pursued by the imperial court and the upper nobility, but also gradually affects the people with the development of society.

Mid-autumn festival tide watching custom:

The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Zhejiang, which is a major activity of the local Mid-Autumn Festival and attracts many tourists. The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which is described in detail in Mei Cheng's Seven Mao Fu in Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, Mid-Autumn tide watching became more popular. There are also records of watching the tide in Zhu Mingting-huan's "Making Up the Past of Wulin" and Wu Songzi-mu's "Liang Menglu".