Children's heart invites the moon, happy to welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival handbills

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major Chinese festivals on a par with the Spring Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August Meeting, the Moon Chasing Festival, the Moon Playing Festival, the Moon Worshipping Festival, the Daughter's Festival, or the Festival of Reunion, etc., is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among the many ethnic groups of China and the countries of the Han Chinese Cultural Circle and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, and is also celebrated on the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar in some places.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and by the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional Chinese festivals on a par with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially for local Chinese.

The main character of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the moon cake. There are many legends about the origin of mooncakes, and the more popular view is that they appeared in the Tang Dynasty. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Turkestan was so powerful that Li Yuan, when he rose up in Taiyuan, had submitted himself to the Turkic Shi Bi Khan in exchange for relative stability in the north. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the Turks on the one hand supported Xue Ju, Liu Wu Zhou and other reclusive forces, and separated from the Tang Dynasty. On the other hand, the Turkic peoples, relying on the strength of their troops and horses, continued to raise their troops to the south to invade the country. In order to pacify the northern foreign trouble, Tang Emperor Li Yuan appointed Li Jing, a famous general at that time, as the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition, to counterattack the Turks, and eventually won the victory.

The day of Li Jing's triumph was the 15th day of the 8th month, and it so happened that the Turpanese offered cakes to Li Yuan that night. Li Yuan was sharing the news of Li Jing's victory with his ministers, and was so happy to see the round cakes that he laughed at the sky and blurted out - "I should invite the toads to the Hu cakes". The general meaning of this sentence is that the god of the moon should be invited to come down to the earth to share the delicious hu cake with everyone. Li Yuan then distributed the cakes to his ministers, and they tasted and enjoyed the moon together. It is said that the custom of eating mooncakes at the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the 8th month came from this, and spread from the palace to the people.

One round of bright moon thousands of miles ****, a sound of blessings sent from afar.

Mid-Autumn Festival with the happy day, cups gathered in the autumn moon.