What are the traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival?

There are festivals to the moon (Yue Bai), burning lanterns, enjoying the moon, watching tides, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine and tying lanterns.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. 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.

It is said that eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Yuan Dynasty. It is said that at that time, the broad masses of the people in the Central Plains could not bear the cruel rule of the ruling class in the Yuan Dynasty and rose up against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang joined forces with various resistance forces to prepare for the uprising.

However, the officers and men of the imperial court searched very closely and it was very difficult to pass on the news. Liu Bowen, a military strategist, came up with a plan and ordered his men to hide a note with the words "Uprising on the 15th of August" in the cake, and then sent people to the uprising troops in different places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the 15th of August. On the day of the uprising, all the rebels responded together.

The Goddess Chang's fly to the moon

The myth of "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" originated from the ancient people's worship of the stars, and the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon first appeared in "Returning to Tibet". Later, the folk story further developed and evolved into multiple story versions. Chang 'e boarded the moon palace. According to Huainanzi in the Western Han Dynasty, it was because she ate the elixir that her husband Yi asked the Queen Mother of the West, flew into the Moon Palace and became a toad.