Is there a custom of eating zongzi in Mid-Autumn Festival?

There is no custom of eating zongzi in Mid-Autumn Festival, but there is a custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating Yue Bai, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to this day and last forever. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness.

The customs of Dragon Boat Festival are rich and colorful, mainly including dragon boat race, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbs, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, flying kites, tying colorful silk threads and wearing sachets.

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The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of worshipping the moon. In the "autumnal equinox" season of the 24 solar terms, it is an ancient "Mid-Autumn Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Mid-Autumn Festival". In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies become the objects of ancestor worship.

The Mid-Autumn Festival celebration originated from ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of sacrificing to the moon. Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God". According to textual research, the original Mid-Autumn Festival was set at the "Autumn Equinox" in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar.

However, due to historical development, the lunar calendar (summer calendar) was later used, so the Festival of Sacrificing the Moon was transferred from the twenty-four solar terms "Autumn Equinox" in the elephant calendar to the fifteenth day of August in the summer calendar (summer calendar). Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins.