What is Mid-Autumn Festival? Is it a festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for ancestor worship and a traditional festival in China, but it is not a legal holiday and there is no holiday.

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is mainly popular among the Han, Manchu and Mongolian people. On this day, people will offer sacrifices to their ancestors and deceased relatives, burn paper money and place sacrifices to express their memory and respect for their deceased relatives.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival for ancestor worship and a traditional festival in China, but it is not a legal holiday, so there is no holiday. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Stone Drum Festival, Ghost Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Local Officials' Day, is a traditional festival in China. Together with Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is called the three ancient ghost festivals in China. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots.

Food eaten in different places during Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Duck: Take its homophonic word "pressure", and eating a duck is like pressing a ghost. People in Dongguan usually eat duck stuffed with lotus root.

2. Seto powder: Dongguan has the custom of eating Seto powder, which is almost common in Dongguan. Of course, different areas eat Seto powder in different ways.

3. Poor tea and light rice: In Ling Du County, Shandong Province, the Mid-Autumn Festival is called "pinch festival" by local people, and every family has the custom of eating poor tea and light rice.

4. Flat food: In Dong Xian Town, Jiangsu Province, many villagers eat flat food (a kind of food made of flour and sugar) during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

5. jiaozi: On the rooftop of Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, they will eat "jiaozi", a kind of food similar to spring rolls, in the Mid-Autumn Festival.