What is Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Worship Festival, Moonlight Festival, Moonlight Night, etc. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month every year. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness.

origin

The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to the moon, which is the relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of respecting the moon. At the autumnal equinox, it is an ancient "Moon Festival". ? [26]? Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God". Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Autumn Equinox Sacrificing the Moon". In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies become the objects of ancestor worship. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of offering sacrifices to the moon. ?

festival name

According to the China calendar, August in the summer calendar (lunar calendar) is in the middle of autumn, which is the second month of autumn, and it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival, while August 15th is in the middle of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival has many nicknames: it is called "August Festival" and "August and a half" because it falls on August 15th; Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival". Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day" because the moon is round, families get together and married daughters go home for reunion. Autumn creek worships moonlight as its birthday, so it is called "Moonlight Birthday". During the Mid-Autumn Festival, all kinds of melons and fruits are mature and listed, which is called the "Fruit Festival".