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What is the meaning of Mid-Autumn Festival?
The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.
Because it falls in the third month of autumn, it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to folk custom, the whole family gathers together on this day to eat moon cakes and admire the moon.
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Festival, Moon Eve, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Moon Mother Festival, Moon Festival, Reunion Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originates from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon on Autumn Eve in ancient times.
Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and other folk customs, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time.
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