Why do you like August?

Ancient people in China liked to observe the moon, and the traditional lunar calendar (a combination of yin and yang) took the moon's cycle into account, which was related to the great cause of agriculture. Therefore, the ancients thought that the key issue of holding Yue Bai ceremonies regularly and arranging the time used the thought of Yin-Yang and Five Elements in China's cultural outline.

"Historical Records" says that the moon is the yin of heaven and earth, and the golden god is also there. The ancients believed that the moon was the essence of the lunar calendar and the five elements belonged to gold. In autumn, the five elements also belong to gold. Therefore, the simple and practical ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon in autumn, which is not a festival, is the earliest origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The real Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang and Song Dynasties, when China had a strong civilization. It is leisure, rich and cultured, and it is urgent to enrich its spiritual life. As a result, the Mid-Autumn Festival with great potential was excavated. The nobles in the palace dominated the entertainment programs of eating, drinking and having fun, and the literati wrote poems about the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival soon became popular all over China, and its momentum was almost equal to that of the Spring Festival.