What is the difference and connection between Mid-Autumn Festival and Autumn Equinox?

The connection between Mid-Autumn Festival and Autumnal Equinox: Both are solar terms and autumn festivals.

The difference between Mid-Autumn Festival and Autumnal Equinox:

First, the nature is different.

1 Mid-Autumn Festival: a traditional folk festival in China.

2. Autumnal equinox: the sixteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms.

Second, the customs are different.

1, Mid-Autumn Festival custom: Since ancient times, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been circulating for a long time. Mid-Autumn Festival, the clouds are few and the moon is bright. In addition to a series of activities such as enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating moon cakes and praying for reunion, there are activities such as dancing grass dragons and building stupas in some places.

2. Autumnal equinox custom: Before the autumnal equinox, it was a traditional festival to worship the moon. Because the Chang 'e in the Moon Palace is a woman, there is a tradition that "men don't give the moon", which is the folk proverb that "men don't give Yue Bai". In Lingnan area, Xie's surname was once Cangcheng town in Kaiping, a city with four cities (Heshan as five cities), and there is a non-holiday custom of "eating autumn vegetables at the autumnal equinox".

Extended data:

According to the lunar calendar, "beginning of autumn" is the beginning of autumn and ends with "the first frost", and the "vernal equinox" is just half of the 90-day journey from beginning of autumn to the first frost. At the autumnal equinox, the Yangtze River basin and its vast northern area have entered autumn, and the daily average temperature has dropped below 22℃.

According to the China calendar, the eighth month of the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, which is the second month of autumn. It is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, and August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved into the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times.

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