Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival in China. It is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, which is in the middle of autumn, hence the name. Commonly known as "August 15th". Originated from agriculture, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, everything is mature, so the villagers regard it as a harvest festival. In the early Tang Dynasty, Song Sheng was appointed. The Ming and Qing Dynasties are as famous as New Year's Day (Spring Festival), which is called off-year.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are customs of offering sacrifices to the moon, Yue Bai and enjoying the moon. At that time, all people who ran away from home would go home for reunion, so it was called "Reunion Festival". Myths and legends include "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon", "WU GANG won the laurel" and "Jade Rabbit played with medicine".

The Historical Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival

As early as the Zhou ceremony, the word Mid-Autumn Festival appeared. The Book of Rites says that the son of heaven is in spring, the sun is in autumn and the moon is in autumn. The autumn evening in the Spring and Autumn Period, which means Yue Bai, began with emperors and spread among the people. Autumn is the harvest season, and autumn means that crops are ripe. Mid-Autumn Festival in August, all kinds of crops and fruits are ripe. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their inner joy, farmers regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival and autumn. August of the lunar calendar is the middle month of autumn, and the fifteenth is the middle of this month. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from this. In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival became popular and became a fixed traditional festival.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, August 15 was fixed as the Mid-Autumn Festival, which was in line with the emergence of seasonal food. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the activities of enjoying the moon were still popular and have been passed down to this day.