Which country successfully applied for World Heritage in Mid-Autumn Festival?

China successfully applied for Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. It has a deep spread and influence in China and should belong to the category of humanities. In May 2006, the State Council listed it as a national intangible cultural heritage. In 20 19, the Mid-Autumn Festival declared by China was included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival in China. Since ancient times, there have been folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and last forever. At first, the festival of "Sacrificing the Moon" was held on the "Autumn Equinox" of the twenty-four solar terms in the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was transferred to the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Traditional activities

Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China, which is actually the worship of the "Moon God" by the ancients. In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The evening moon is the God of Yue Bai. Since ancient times, in some places in Guangdong, people have the custom of worshipping the moon god (mother moon and moonlight) on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival.

In Yue Bai, a big incense table was set up, and the sacrifices included moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes. Under the moon, put the "Luna God" tablet in the direction of the moon, and the red candle burns high. The whole family took turns in Yue Bai to pray. Sacrificing the moon to admire the memory of the moon expresses people's good wishes. As one of the important ceremonies of Mid-Autumn Festival, the sacrifice of the moon has been going on since ancient times.