What is the Mid-Autumn Festival called?

The moon cake festival is called Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Moon Cake Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "Daughter's Day" and "Reunion Festival", is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups in China. It is named because its value is only half that of Sanqiu. It is said that the moon is the biggest, roundest and brightest tonight.

Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival night. Daughters-in-law who return to their parents' homes will return to their husbands' homes every day to show their completeness and auspicious celebration. It originated in ancient times, became popular in the Han Dynasty, took shape in the early Tang Dynasty, and became popular after the Song Dynasty. Together with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival, it is called the four traditional festivals in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon in autumn night in ancient times. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.

Introduction to the custom of moon cake festival

1, offering sacrifices to the moon, is a very old custom in China, and it is actually a ritual activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk". The evening moon is the God of Yue Bai.

2. Moon cakes, also called moon dumplings, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc. It is to pay tribute to the moon god in the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Moon cakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion.

People often eat moon cakes and enjoy osmanthus in Mid-Autumn Festival, and eat all kinds of foods made of osmanthus, among which cakes and sweets are the most common. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at osmanthus, smelling osmanthus fragrance and drinking a glass of osmanthus wine in the middle of the month to celebrate the sweetness of the family has become a wonderful enjoyment of the festival. In modern times, people mostly use red wine instead.