What's the difference between Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival refers to the second month of each quarter. From the lunar calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival refers to the August of the lunar calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival refers to the day in the middle of autumn, that is, August 15th is the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. The difference between the two is that the Mid-Autumn Festival is a legal holiday, but it is not.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival is common in ancient times. For example, the ancient book Shangshu said, "In the dark, the stars are empty and are with Yin Zhong Qiu". The main idea of this sentence is that the length of day and night is equal. At dusk, a "virtual night" star appears in the south, indicating that it is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Obviously, this refers to a certain day, which is the Mid-Autumn Festival we are talking about today. In China's lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival is the second month of autumn, which is the August of the lunar calendar. According to the China lunar calendar, August is the second month of autumn, which was called the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times, so it was called the Mid-Autumn Festival by the people. Also known as autumn festival, August festival, August and a half, full moon festival, full moon festival, and because of the full moon on this day, it symbolizes reunion, also known as reunion festival. There are many customs in the folk Mid-Autumn Festival, such as eating moon cakes, enjoying the moon, enjoying osmanthus and solve riddles on the lanterns.

The ancients often used "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Mid-Autumn Festival". There is a record in Mid-Autumn Festival that "the stars are empty in the night, taking Yin as an example". "In the night" means that the length of day and night is equal, "virtual star" is one of the seven nights in northern Xuanwu, and "yin" is "positive", that is, the virtual star appears in the south at dusk, and the day and night are equally divided to illustrate the climate in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Spring, summer, autumn and winter, four years old, each season has three months of Meng, Zhong and Ji, "Meng" comes first and "Zhong" comes second.

In ancient times, there was no difference between the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, except that the Mid-Autumn Festival was the middle of a quarter, which meant that each quarter was divided into three parts, and the Mid-Autumn Festival meant the middle of these three quarters.