What does it mean to rain on Mid-Autumn Festival?

Rain in Mid-Autumn Festival means more rain, which indicates less rain in the coming spring.

Mid-Autumn Festival is in the middle of August in the lunar calendar, which is the harvest season of autumn grain. In order to reward the gods, the ancients held a series of celebrations on this day, commonly known as the autumn newspaper. It can be said that the Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to agricultural production. There is an old saying in rural China that we are afraid of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but we are afraid of it, which means it should be sunny rather than rainy.

If there is moderate rain or heavy rain on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, it indicates that there will be a lot of rain and rainy weather in the next period of time. August 15 is a busy autumn harvest season in China. If it encounters continuous rainy weather, it will seriously affect the harvest, transportation and drying of crops, and the crops that are about to arrive will be at risk of germination and mildew, and the output of food crops will be seriously reduced.

Festival development

Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together. According to records, during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn in the Han Dynasty, there were activities of respecting the elderly and giving coarse cakes. There are also written records of Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Before the Jin Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival was not popular in northern China.

During the Tang Dynasty, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival became popular in northern China and became an officially recognized national festival in the Tang Dynasty. 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 also combined with fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurel, Jade Rabbit smashing medicine, Yang Guifei changing the moon god, and Tang Dynasty visiting the moon palace, which makes it full of romance, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish.