The moon is full every month, so why have a full moon festival in August?

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated every year on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, which is why it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each of which is further divided into three parts: the Meng, the Midsummer, and the Quarter, hence the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the 15th day of the 8th month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, which is why it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Festival of Reunion".

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar coincides with the ripening of rice, and families worship the God of the Land. The Mid-Autumn Festival may be the legacy of the Autumn Report. Seasonally, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the "Autumn Harvest Festival", when the grains sown in the spring and planted in the summer are harvested in the fall. Since ancient times, people have been drinking and dancing during this season to celebrate the harvest, which is depicted in the "Book of Songs", the earliest collection of poetry in China. In terms of origin, Mid-Autumn Festival is also the "Moon Festival", which originated from the worship of nature by ancient mankind. In the ritual system of the ancient emperors, there were two sacrifices in spring and autumn: one for the sun in spring and the other for the moon in autumn. Initially, the day of the moon festival in the "autumnal equinox" this day, "autumnal equinox" this season in August every year different, so the autumnal equinox this day may not have the moon, moon festival without the moon is a great deal of fun, and gradually agreed upon, the day of the moon festival is fixed on the fifteenth day of the eighth month. From the point of view of scientific observation, the tilt of the earth and the sun increases in the fall, the warm and humid air over the land of China gradually recede, and at this time, the northwest wind is still very weak. So, the humidity has gone, sand and dust have not arisen, the air is particularly fresh, the sky is particularly clean, the moon looks both round and large, is the best time to enjoy the moon. Just as the old poem says: "The light is bright and clean, but the ancient and modern appreciation of the Mid-Autumn Moon, looking for the moon is not the other? All for the earth and heaven on the air clear."