Do people in the Tang Dynasty have a Mid-Autumn Festival holiday?

1, yes. 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. At first, the festival of "Sacrificing the Moon" was held on the "autumnal equinox" of the 24 solar terms in the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was moved to August 15 in the summer calendar (lunar calendar). In some places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is set on August 16 in the summer calendar. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the court stipulated that the Mid-Autumn Festival would have a three-day holiday, so people in the Tang Dynasty would also have a holiday. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival took a day off. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, most traditional festivals including Mid-Autumn Festival were cancelled. Until modern times, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008.