Customs and traditions of Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival, and it is an important custom to offer sacrifices and enjoy the moon. Ancient emperors had a social system of offering sacrifices to the sun and the moon in spring, and people also had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, enjoying the moon has become one of the most important activities for people in the Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. eat moon cakes.

As the saying goes, "August 15th is full, and Mid-Autumn moon cakes are sweet and fragrant". People combine moon viewing with moon cakes, symbolizing family reunion and missing.

3. Enjoy osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine.

People often eat all kinds of food made of sweet-scented osmanthus, especially cakes and sweets.

Origin:

The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in Zhou Li, and in the Zhou Dynasty, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Night to Welcome the Cold" and "Autumn Equinox Late Moon (Yue Bai)". The mid-August of the lunar calendar is the harvest day of autumn grain, and people will hold a series of celebrations called "Autumn Newspaper". Later, the color of the sacrifice gradually faded, but the festival continued. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually became a fixed festival.

"I hope that people will live for a long time and have a good scenery for thousands of miles." Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature is cool and the moonlight is bright, which is the best season to enjoy the moon. The ancients regarded the full moon as a symbol of reunion, so August 15 was also called "Reunion Festival".