What are the origins of the Mid-Autumn Festival? Be short

The term Mid-Autumn Festival, first seen in the "Zhou Li", "Rituals - Monthly Orders" on the said: "the month of mid-autumn to raise the aging, the line of surimi porridge diet." As for when the Mid-Autumn Festival fixed August 15, according to historians, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be the end of the Sui Tang army in the Daiye thirteen years on August 15, the Tang army Pei Silence to the full moon as an idea, successfully invented the moon cake, and widely distributed to the army as a military pay, successfully solved the problem of military food due to the absorption of a large number of anti-Sui-yi volunteers and derivatives of the army.

Some scholars believe that: according to historical records, the Zhou Dynasty, there has been a "mid-autumn night to welcome the cold" "autumn equinox sunset (moon worship)" activities. Harvest season is not only to worship the land god, but also to worship the moon god. The 15th day of the 8th month is the harvesting season of autumn, and all families worship the land god, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancient people's "autumn report".

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in East Asian folklore, originating in China, and celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year, around September to early October of the Gregorian calendar, which is the middle part of the year's autumn season, and is therefore known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, August is the second month of autumn, thus Mid-Autumn is also called Mid-Autumn, and because the moon is full on this day, symbolizing reunion, it is also known as Reunion Festival, Autumn Sunset, August Festival, August Half Moon, Moon Festival, Moon Festival. It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a regular festival.

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