Allegory and Symbols of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes the reunion of loved ones and the joy of a good harvest. As one of the important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion and harmony, happiness and prosperity, which not only sends people to their hometowns of attachment and the keen desire for the reunion of loved ones, but also carries all the Chinese children's deep family and national sentiments. Autumn is the season of harvest. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is: "the crops are ripe in the fall". Mid-Autumn in August, crops and various fruits are ripening one after another, farmers in order to celebrate the harvest, to express the joy of the mood, the "Mid-Autumn" day as a holiday. "Mid-Autumn" is the meaning of the middle of the fall, the lunar calendar in August is the middle of the month of autumn, the 15th is the middle of the month, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be the ancients "Autumn News" inherited customs.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs 1, eat moon cakes Mid-Autumn Festival to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes is a necessary custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival across China, as the saying goes: "August 15, the moon is round, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival mooncakes sweet and fragrant". In ancient times, mooncakes were only a kind of snack food at the beginning. Later on, people gradually combined moonlight appreciation with mooncakes to symbolize family reunion and to send their thoughts. At the same time, mooncakes are also an important gift for friends to contact each other during the Mid-Autumn Festival.2. Moonlight AppreciationMid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and moonlight appreciation is an important custom of the festival. Ancient emperors had the social system of sacrificing the sun in the spring and the moon in the fall, and there was also the wind of moon sacrifice in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the people's homes. Later on, the appreciation of the moon was more important than the sacrifice of the moon, and the seriousness of the sacrifice was turned into a relaxing entertainment. Every mid-autumn, people will set out the fruit, enjoy the moon and talk.