About the traditional customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Worship the moon and appreciate the moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and worshiping and admiring the moon is an important custom of the festival. Ancient emperors had a social system of worshiping the sun in spring and the moon in autumn, and people also had the custom of worshiping the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, admiring the moon has become one of the most important activities for people during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Eat moon cakes.

As the saying goes: "August and 15th are full, and Mid-Autumn mooncakes are fragrant and sweet." People combine moon appreciation with moon cakes, which symbolizes family reunion and expresses their longing for each other.

3. Appreciate osmanthus flowers and drink osmanthus wine.

People often eat various foods made from sweet-scented osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, with pastries and candies being the most common.

Origin:

The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in "Zhou Li". In the Zhou Dynasty, there were already "Mid-Autumn Night to welcome the cold" and "Autumnal Equinox Eve (moon worship)" Activity. Mid-August of the lunar calendar is the time of autumn grain harvest, and people will hold a series of celebrations called "Autumn Report". Later, the color of sacrifice gradually faded, but this festival continued. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually became a fixed festival.

“I wish you a long life, thousands of miles away from the beauty of the moon.” During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature is cool and the moon is bright in the sky, which is the best time to watch the moon. The ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion, so August 15th was also called the "Reunion Festival".