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What holiday is Autumn Eve written about

Mid-Autumn Festival.

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is called "Autumn Eve", which is also known as the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. Autumn eve originally referred to the evening of autumn, as written in the famous poem "Autumn eve" by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu. Through the changes of time, the Chinese call this day the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Korean people (North Korea, South Korea, and Chinese Koreans) call it the "Autumn Eve", a festival of harvest and thanksgiving, which is different from the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival in its customs and allusions, and in the case of the Korean people, is even more solemn than the Spring Festival (the New Year of the Chinese Lunar Calendar), except for the fact that it falls on the same day.

Chinese people over the Mid-Autumn Festival, mainly family reunion, because of the vastness of the country, all some family members can not be reunited is also talking about thousands of miles of *** Canyuanjuan. The Korean people are more concentrated, so in addition to family reunion, it is also a day to remember the kindness of ancestors, and more importantly, ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. For the Korean people who respect traditions, the "Autumn Festival" is as important as the Spring Festival.

Every year in South Korea, the "autumn eve" holiday is characterized by a "great migration of the nation," just like China's Spring Festival. Train and bus tickets are difficult to buy, for an average of 1.5 cars per family in South Korea, many people are driving a private car back to their hometowns, because you can leave on the same day can go home, unlike the vast expanse of China as more difficult to go home, so the highway traffic jams are very serious. Early in the morning of the fall eve, Korean families will set up new grain, fruit wine, muffins, taro soup and a variety of fruits to worship ancestors. Traditionally, the eldest son inherits the family lineage, so on Autumn Eve, the brothers go to their eldest brother's house to pay homage to their ancestors. At the beginning of the festival, the men stand respectfully in front of the festival table, and the eldest son of the family, who is the chief priest, opens the door of the house, meaning that he invites the ancestor to come into the house. Then he returns to the table, burns incense, offers flowers and wine, and leads the members of the family in a bowing ceremony. While the ancestors are enjoying the offerings .