Why is Mid-Autumn Festival called Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. According to China's calendar, August in the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, that is, the second month of autumn, which is called "Mid-Autumn Festival", and August 15th is among them, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival refers to the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month happens to be the moment when rice is ripe, and every household worships the land god. Mid-Autumn Festival is the legacy of Qiubao. Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, which originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient worship of celestial phenomena-the custom of respecting 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 kind of ritual activity of ancient people in some places in ancient China. According to research, "Mid-Autumn Festival" was originally set on the day of autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, due to the change of the calendar, the lunar calendar (summer calendar) is used, and the date of the August and autumn equinox in the summer calendar is different every year, and there may not be a full moon. Later, the "Moon Festival" was transferred from the twenty-four solar terms in the dry calendar to the fifteenth day of August in the summer calendar (lunar calendar).

Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins.