The Mid-Autumn Festival in August is the real "Autumn Harvest Festival". Is it a festival created by ancient farmers to celebrate the harvest?

The Mid-Autumn Festival in August in the true sense is the "Autumn Harvest Festival", which is a festival of celebration and harvest.

According to research, the word Mid-Autumn Festival first appeared in Zhou Li, and there were Mid-Autumn Festival activities in Yue Bai as early as the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally an autumn harvest festival, a harvest festival. The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month determines the quality of this year's harvest, so the folk proverb says that August fifteenth will be safe. China was an agricultural society in ancient times, and the agricultural society paid special attention to gratitude for land, nature, yin and yang, and natural environment. Therefore, an activity called Mid-Autumn Festival was held in this period, which was the earliest origin of Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become an opportunity for literati to get together under the moon. Many poets have poems chanting the moon in their masterpieces, which also gives the Mid-Autumn Festival a new meaning. There is a big factor in getting together under the moon, that is, reunion and separation. Li Bai's poem, a bright moon hangs high in the capital, and ten thousand hammers beat the ground. Su Dongpo in Song Dynasty missed Ziyou's brother on Mid-Autumn Festival night.

The Mid-Autumn Festival in the Song Dynasty began to become a national statutory festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Ming Dynasty became a "reunion festival". Grateful for nature and attaching importance to family and friendship, as the two major cultural genes of Mid-Autumn Festival, have been passed down to today.