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The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the Chinese traditional festivals on a par with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival of some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially the local Chinese diaspora. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a legal holiday, and on May 20, 2006, the State Council included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list.

Origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival

There are many accounts of the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The term "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in the "Zhou Li", the "Rituals of the Moon", said: the month of mid-autumn to raise the aging, the line of rice porridge diet.

One said it originated in the ancient imperial rituals. Records of the Rites: the Son of Heaven spring sunrise, the autumn eve, eve is the sacrifice of the moon, indicating that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to sacrifice the moon, worship the moon. Later, noble officials and literati also followed suit, and gradually spread to the people.

Second, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. Autumn is the season of harvest. The interpretation of the word "fall" is: the ripening of crops is said to be autumn. August mid-autumn, crops and various fruits are ripening one after another, farmers in order to celebrate the harvest, to express the joy, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival as a holiday. Mid-Autumn is the middle of autumn means, the lunar calendar of August is the middle of the autumn month, the fifteenth and the middle of the month day, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be the ancients Autumn News inherited customs.

Some historians have also pointed out that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be the end of the Sui Tang army in Daye 13 years on August 15, the Tang army Pei Silence to the full moon as an idea, the successful invention of the moon cake, and widely distributed to the army as a military pay, successfully solved the problem of military food due to the absorption of a large number of anti-Sui-yi volunteers and the derivation of the army.