Mid-Autumn Festival Folk Customs

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Worship Festival. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by such folk customs as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and are still uninterrupted. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon as an omen of human reunion, as a means of sending thoughts to the hometown and relatives, and praying for a good harvest and happiness.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, stereotyped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and flourished after the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and Chinese regions of the world. The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday, and on May 20, 2006, the State Council of the People's Republic of China inscribed it on the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

Chinese Name

Mid-Autumn Festival

Foreign Name

Mid-Autumn Festival

Alternative Names

Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Sunset, Festival of Reunion

Festival Time

Fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

Festival Type

The festival is one of the four major traditional festivals in China. p>One of China's Four Great Traditional Festivals

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient practice of honoring the moon in worship of the heavens. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient celestial worship practice of honoring the moon, which was celebrated at the time of the autumn equinox, the ancient "Moon Festival". In traditional culture, the moon, like the sun, and the two alternating celestial bodies became objects of worship for the ancestors. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient worship of the moon, and is a remnant and derivative of the Chinese custom of moon worship. Moon sacrifice is a very ancient custom in China, which is actually a kind of worship activity of the "moon god" in some places of China in ancient times. According to evidence, the initial "Moon Festival" is set in the dry calendar 24 "Autumn Equinox" this day, but because of this day in the summer calendar in the eighth month of the day every year is different, may not always have a full moon, and later on will be "Moon Festival Later, the "Moon Festival" was transferred from the "Autumn Equinox" to the 15th day of the 8th month of the summer (lunar calendar). Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by folk customs such as moon sacrifice and moon viewing, which have been passed down to the present day. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]