What festival is August 29th, 2023?

August 29th, 2023 is the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also the summer solar term, the fourteenth solar term among the twenty-four solar terms, and the second solar term in autumn. Being in summer means that the hot weather is coming to an end, the direct point of the sun continues to move southward, the solar radiation weakens, the subtropical high begins to withdraw southward, and the climate in the northern region gradually cools. After the summer, the weather is characterized by hot in the daytime, cool in the morning and evening, large temperature difference between day and night, and gradually decreasing precipitation and humidity.

In this solar term, people usually have some specific customs and activities. For example, before and after the summer and solar terms, many areas in our country will have the custom of setting off river lanterns to educate ghosts in the water and illuminate their way to new life. In addition, during the summer, folk activities such as ancestor worship and paper burning will be held to pray for ancestors to bless future generations. In some areas, eating ducks at this time means cooling down and making the dead relatives live better in the underworld.

Characteristics of Mid-Autumn Festival

1, ancestor worship: Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival for folk ancestor worship. People remember their ancestors through ancestor worship activities and express their respect and nostalgia for their ancestors. There are ways to worship ancestors, such as sweeping graves, paying homage and burning incense.

2. Mourning: Mid-Autumn Festival is a day to mourn the dead. People express their grief and nostalgia for their deceased relatives through poems, songs and stories. Su Shi's Ten Years of Life and Death in Jiang's Twenty Dreams of the First Month is a masterpiece of mourning poems.

3. Taoist belief: The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to Taoism's ternary theory, that is, heaven officials bless the Yuan Dynasty, local officials forgive sins in the Yuan Dynasty, and water officials slow down in the Yuan Dynasty. Taoism believes that July 15 is the birthday of local officials, so it is designated as the Mid-Autumn Festival.