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How are traditional festivals established? Why is August 15th the Mid-Autumn Festival?

It is China people's good wishes for a happy life and prayers for good weather that determine traditional festivals such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and behind these festivals, it is the result of historical and cultural accumulation of many ethnic groups in China. Mid-Autumn Festival is because of the ancient calendar in China. Under the rules of the ancient calendar, a year is divided into four parts: spring, summer, autumn and winter, and each season is divided into three months, so the second month of autumn is called? Mid-Autumn Festival? And the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is the middle of the month, so this day is called? Mid-Autumn Festival? .

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been a traditional festival in China since the Tang Dynasty. The industrious people in China found that the moon on August 15 would be the roundest moment in the four seasons, and it looked like a round cake, so they began to eat moon cakes, not to mention the elegant activity of enjoying the moon.

So far, it exists in many places in China. Full moon building? 、? Moon worship pavilion? Waiting for the beautiful place to enjoy the moon. Because the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is a rare time in a year, when enjoying the moon, I may feel that I have read fairy tales, so I thought of calling friends, sitting around the pavilion, drinking some wine, eating some cakes, looking up at the moon and telling the ups and downs of these days. Wanderers who can't see their families will also sit alone in the pavilion on this day and watch the moon quietly with their relatives across the mountains and rivers.

At the same time, as the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a traditional festival in China, many poets and poets sing on this day, leaving behind world-famous works. For example, Sushi's Mink Head and Li Bai's Drinking the Bright Moon Alone are also awe-inspiring cultural treasures in China's long history and culture.

However, the Mid-Autumn Festival has other origins. A year later, the Mid-Autumn Festival will be the time when the crops are ripe. In some places, people will prepare related sacrificial objects. On this day, they will bow down to the gods who protect the land with the most sincere heart. In this way, the Mid-Autumn Festival has the meaning of praying for a bumper harvest in the coming year.