The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival customs: Yue Bai, offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, guessing, watching the tide, lighting lanterns, playing with lanterns, drinking osmanthus wine, burning towers and enjoying osmanthus. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, it is popular in many ethnic groups and countries in China's Chinese character cultural circle.

Yue Bai is a very old custom in China, which actually originated from the worship of "Moon God" by ancient people in some places in China. Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of worshipping the moon. As one of the important ceremonies of Mid-Autumn Festival, it has continued from ancient times to the present, and gradually evolved into a folk activity to appreciate and praise the moon.

Offering sacrifices to the moon is an activity of offering sacrifices to the "Moon God" in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient "Moon Festival". The worship of the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which stems from the worship of astronomical phenomena, praying for help to realize one's wishes, so worship. As one of the important ceremonies of Mid-Autumn Festival, offering sacrifices to the moon has continued from ancient times to the present, and gradually evolved into a folk activity of appreciating and praising the moon. At the same time, it has become the main form of modern people's longing for reunion and their desire for a better life. Traditional cultural festival.

Appreciating the moon is an important custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. It also refers to watching the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. According to the existing written records, the folk Mid-Autumn Festival began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang Dynasty. Many poets have poems about the moon in their famous works, and the court and folk activities to enjoy the moon in the Song and Ming Dynasties were even larger. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is usually round.