About Mid-Autumn Festival

The year lunar August 15 is a traditional mid-autumn festival in China. This is the middle of a year, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is China's second largest traditional holiday after the Spring Festival.

In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong, and Ji. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Zhong Qiu. The moon in August 15 is more round and brighter than the full moon in other months, it is also known as the lunar evening, the autumn festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the February festival, the chasing monthly festival, the playmonthly festival, the lunar new year's festival, the female festival, or the reunion festival. It is a traditional cultural festival popular among many nationalities in China. On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a disk, and naturally look forward to family reunion. As a wandering child in another hometown, he also sent his thoughts on his hometown and his loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the "reunion Festival ".

It is said that the moon is closest to the earth and the moon is the biggest and brightest, so there has been a banquet to enjoy the moon from ancient times to the present. The daughter-in-law of the maiden family will return to her home in order to fulfill the purpose of Jiqing. In some cases, the Mid-Autumn Festival is scheduled to be held in May August 16, such as Ningbo, Taizhou, and Zhoushan, in order to prevent the attacks against the Yuan Dynasty officers and soldiers and Zhu yuantian, the change was "The Lantern Festival in lunar January 14" and the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 16. In addition, during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong, we had to have another carnival on the 16th night called "chasing the moon ".

The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first found in the book "Zhou li" and formed a national holiday in the Tang Dynasty. In ancient times, Chinese people had the "autumn evening and evening" customs. Xi Yue, that is, worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, the cold and monthly sacrifices will be held every Mid-Autumn Night. Set up the big incense case and set up moon cakes, watermelon, apple, red dates, plums, grapes and other sacrifices. Among them, moon cakes and watermelon are absolutely indispensable. Cut the watermelon into a lotus shape. In the next month, the statue of the moon is placed in the direction of the moon, the red candle is high, the whole family worship the moon, and then the housewife cut the reunion moon cake. The number of people in the family is counted in advance. The number of people in the family, who are at home and in other places, must be counted together. The size should be the same.

Today, the customs of playing in the next month are far from old times. However, the banquet is still very popular. People may ask about the wine, celebrate a wonderful life, or wish their loved ones in the distance a healthy and happy life ".

The Mid-Autumn Festival has many customs and different forms, but they all pin on people's infinite love for life and yearning for a better life.