What traditional festival is Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. Legend has it that it commemorates Chang 'e. August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Sacrificing the moon is a very old custom in our country, and it is a kind of worship activity of the ancients in some ancient places in our country to the "Moon God". The autumnal equinox among the 24 solar terms is an ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Autumn Equinox Sacrificing the Moon". As one of the important ceremonies of folk festivals, the Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually evolved into activities such as moon viewing and moon viewing.

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. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the documents of the Han Dynasty and was written in Zhou Li of the Han Dynasty (handed down from Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). According to legend, in the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Festival to welcome the cold night", "Giving good clothes in the Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Moon at the Autumn Equinox (Yue Bai)".

According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting the elderly and sending coarse cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty was not popular in northern China. ?

The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in northern China in the Tang Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival, about in the Tang Dynasty. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.

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 full of romance by combining fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang's felling of laurel, Jade Rabbit smashing medicine, Yang Guifei's changing into the moon god and Tang Dynasty's visiting the moon palace, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.