Why is Mid-Autumn Festival called Reunion Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival is a reunion festival, and the full moon symbolizes reunion, so it is also called Reunion Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the "August Festival", is called the "three major festivals" in a year together with the Dragon Boat Festival and New Year's Day on the first day of the first month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is very bright. The ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion. Therefore, it is also called August 15th as a reunion festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival will certainly be more meaningful, especially when the moon is high. Reunion is the theme of Mid-Autumn Festival and the final destination of China people's cultural psychology. Whether it is the wish of the full moon or all kinds of interesting customs on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, they are finally condensed into eternal happiness in the smiling faces of their families.

Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, take two days to go home to see parents, take his wife and children to travel, and make National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival a "tourism festival", which is a happy experience and a sense of gain.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Offering sacrifices to the moon has a long history, and it is a kind of ritual activity of ancient people in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient "Moon Festival". Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together.

The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the documents of the Han Dynasty and was written in Zhou Li of the Han Dynasty (handed down from Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). According to legend, in the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Welcome to the Cold in Mid-Autumn Night", "Give Good Clothes in Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Autumn Equinox Moon (Yue Bai)".

According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting the elderly and sending coarse cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty was not very popular in northern China.