What is the Harvest Festival

The tenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar among the Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities in China. In China, it is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar among some ethnic minorities, such as the She people. In South India, it is also called "Pongal Festival", which falls around the middle of March on the Gregorian calendar. The State Council established the Autumn Equinox as the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" every year.

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The festival is celebrated on the tenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar among the Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities in China. In China, it is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar among some minorities such as the She people. In South India, it is also known as the "Pongal Festival", which falls around the middle of March on the Gregorian calendar. The State Council establishes the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" on the autumn equinox of the lunar calendar every year.

Which ethnic group's festival is the Harvest Festival

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In China, the 10th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Harvest Festival, which has a history of thousands of years. The main purpose of the festival is to celebrate the year's harvest and to honor the god of the harvest, "Yandi Shennong". Chinese folk believe that the Double Ten Festival of the lunar calendar is an auspicious day for "Ten Perfections", and those who register for marriage on this day are considered to be "Ten Perfections Marriage". Every year on the day of the Harvest Festival, the children of the family who work outside must come back to celebrate the festival, and the married woman will also bring her son-in-law and children back to celebrate the festival together. Especially if there are old people at home, the children should come back to celebrate the festival. Villagers also like to bring their friends back to celebrate the festival, which family people come back together, come more friends, it proves that the family is the most united, harmony, goodwill.

Which ethnic group's festival is the Harvest Festival

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The 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar is known as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Festival of Reunion for the Han Chinese, but it is also known as the Harvest Festival for the She ethnic group. She families make sticky rice pudding to celebrate the harvest and offer sacrifices to their ancestors on this day. Under the influence of the Han Chinese after the founding of New China, most She people also eat mooncakes like the local Han Chinese. There are elders to the younger generation to send moon cakes, children, son-in-law to parents (parents-in-law) to send packets of cakes and noodles, meat and so on.