Mid-Autumn Festival Manuscript Prints

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.

Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival, about in the Tang Dynasty. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in northern China in the Tang Dynasty. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Chang 'an area in Tang Dynasty. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of romance by combining fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang's felling of laurel, Jade Rabbit smashing medicine, Yang Guifei's changing into the moon god, and Tang's visiting the moon palace, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is coming, and every place has its own customs. However, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is nothing more than offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, watching lanterns and eating moon cakes.

In addition, there are folk, moonlight horses, male prostitutes, Mid-Autumn Festival banquets, dragon dances, burning pagoda lights, stealing vegetables and begging for lang, stealing melons and praying for children, making cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival, burning incense in the bright moon, begging for the moon, walking on the moon and taking the Three Bridges, and so on. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is handed down from generation to generation. In today's information age, we feel the diversity of Mid-Autumn Festival culture. We all have the responsibility to inherit and carry forward this excellent tradition, so that family ties will last forever and our lives will be more colorful!