The clay sculpture of Mid-Autumn Festival is very simple.

The clay sculpture works of Mid-Autumn Festival are as follows:

1. Make balls with purple mud and press them into petals. Five petals are put together to make a small flower, with yellow clay as the flower heart, brown clay as the trunk and green clay as the leaves, so a small flower is completed.

2. Use colored mud to make mushrooms, use colored mud of different colors to make semicircles and columns, put the semicircles of colored mud on the columns, so that they are combined together like mushrooms, use green mud as a lawn in the middle, and use many small balls as decorations, so that a mushroom house is completed.

The origin of festivals

Mid-Autumn Festival is the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and Moon Palace Legend. It originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty.

The evening moon is the autumnal equinox when the ancient emperors offered sacrifices to the moon. "Li Zhouguan Chunzong Bo Dian Rui" Zheng Xuan Note: The son of heaven is always divided into Asahi and Qiuyue. Pei Zhi's Biography of Filial Piety in Historical Records quoted Ying Shao as saying: The son of heaven is sunny in spring, and the moon is autumn, and he worships the sun outside the East Gate. Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the moon is facing the evening. Now the Moon Altar in Beijing, formerly known as the Moon Altar, is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed the moon at the autumnal equinox.

Because there is not necessarily a moon on the night of the autumnal equinox, and the moon is not necessarily round, it will spoil the scenery, so people gradually put the autumnal equinox festival on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in August is the harvest season. The ancients held a ceremony to worship the land god, which was called Autumn Newspaper and Autumn Society. "White Tiger Tongzhou" contains: Mid-autumn moon, choose Yuan Day, make the people society. "Help God" says: Mid-spring prays for the valley, and mid-autumn harvests the valley, offering sacrifices to the millet. The late autumn moon festival can be regarded as the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

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 about 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.