Festival customs brief about 100 words.

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, is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among the many ethnic groups of China and the countries of the Chinese Character and Culture Circle, and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; it is so named because it falls at the halfway point of the third quarter of the lunar calendar and is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival on the sixteenth day of the eighth month 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 Chinese traditional 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. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and on May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been practiced since ancient times, with customs such as sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and continue unabated. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, in order to express the feelings of nostalgia for the hometown and relatives, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Qingming Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China.

Expanded Information:

Folk Mid-Autumn Moon Festival activities began around the Wei and Jin dynasties, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties. The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on the price of the product. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, every Mid-Autumn Festival, when the full moon rises in the east, people will be in the courtyard, on the terrace, put out moon cakes, pomelo, pomegranate, taro, walnuts, peanuts, watermelon and other fruits, and the side of the moon, the side of the conversation, until the moon is in the sky, and then share the food for the moon fruits, and have a good time.

In China's ethnic minority areas, the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also held a distinctive "moon worship", "haunted by the moon", "line the moon", "moon jumping", "stealing the moon" and other colorful activities.

From scientific observation, the tilt of the earth and the sun increases in the fall, and the warm humid air over the land of China gradually recedes, while at this time, the northwest wind is still very weak. In this way, the humidity has gone, sand and dust have not arisen, the air is particularly fresh, the sky is particularly clean, the moon looks both round and large, is the best time to enjoy the moon.

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