Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Worship Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moonlight Party, etc. It is celebrated every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been circulating for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. ? Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and Chinese areas around the world. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are called the four traditional festivals in China. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20th, 2006, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council, China listed it as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

Mid-Autumn Festival custom:

1, eat moon cakes

Eating moon cakes is the main custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the existing records, the custom of eating moon cakes originated in the Tang Dynasty. Tang Xizong ate moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival and thought it was delicious. He ordered the chef to wrap moon cakes in HongLing and give them to the new scholars. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were called "lotus leaf", "golden flower" and "hibiscus", and their production methods were more exquisite. The poet Su Dongpo praised in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, and there is fullness in the crisp." Its subtlety can be imagined.

2. Sacrifice the moon

In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn and dusk", that is, worshipping the moon god. A big incense table was set up under the moon, the moon statue was placed towards the moon, red candles were burned high, and sacrifices such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes were placed. The whole family took turns in Yue Bai, and then the housewife cut the reunion moon cakes into pieces as many as the whole family.

Step 3 enjoy the moon

In addition to offering sacrifices to the moon, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had the custom of enjoying the moon since ancient times. During the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, people held a festival to welcome the cold, set up a big incense table, put on wine and food, and a group of people got together to drink and enjoy the moon.