When did the Mid-Autumn Festival originate?

Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. It should be said that it is the second largest folk festival after the Spring Festival in China. The core element of Mid-Autumn Festival is Yue Bai custom, which evolved from the ancient belief in the moon god. The wind of Yue Bai has been circulating for thousands of years. It is actually the "Moon Worship Festival" of the Chinese nation. This festival preserves the ancient philosophical thoughts of ancestors about harmony between heaven and earth, and contains the endless belief of Chinese descendants in moon worship. There are some sayings in Zhou Li, such as "Give good clothes in the Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Welcome the cold in the Mid-Autumn Night", but the Mid-Autumn Festival at that time was only a month's time and had no holiday significance. Mid-Autumn Festival became a festival after Tang and Song Dynasties. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, the golden toad and the rabbit, WU GANG, the origin of moon cakes, the uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and other beautiful legends are all inextricably linked with the Mid-Autumn Festival. These beautiful legends and stories further enrich the cultural connotation of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Family reunion is the core meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival custom. Due to family life, China people have strong family ethics and attach importance to kinship and consanguinity, thus forming a folk psychology of harmonious reunion earlier. The reunion of family members has become a major event in family life, and folk festivals provide people with opportunities to get together regularly. In traditional festivals, people's requirements for reunion are met to varying degrees, such as the "Year of the Group" on New Year's Eve and the gathering of drinks on the Double Ninth Festival.

Sacrifice the moon to Yue Bai to celebrate the harvest. The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Tang and Song Dynasties is a universal social entertainment festival. The main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are enjoying and playing with the moon. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the nature of festivals changed, and people also enjoyed the moon, but it seemed that they paid more attention to the sacred significance of the moon god and the ethical and economic relations between people in the real society. Mid-Autumn Festival is the harvest season. People use the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival to celebrate the harvest.

Share and feed "reunion cake". Making food moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival is called "reunion cake" among the people. Mid-Autumn Festival is the harvest season. In order to strengthen the ties between family members and social members and give gifts to each other, moon cakes become tokens of mutual exchange and auspicious symbols.