The Mid-Autumn Festival legends include Chang'e flying to the moon and worshiping the moon. The introduction is as follows:

1. Chang'e flying to the moon: One year, ten suns suddenly appeared in the sky. Hou Yi shot down nine. Later, I happened to meet the Queen Mother and asked her for a pack of elixir. However, Hou Yi couldn't bear to leave his wife, so he temporarily gave the medicine to Chang'e for safekeeping. Peng Meng threatened Chang'e with a sword to hand over the elixir. In desperation, Chang'e took out the medicine and swallowed it. Immediately flew into the sky. After hearing the news that Chang'e became an immortal, people placed incense tables under the moon to pray for Chang'e's good fortune and safety. Since then, the custom of worshiping the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival has been spread among the people.

2. Moon Sacrifice: This festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena. Because the ancients were relatively superstitious, they had a primitive worship mentality for everything in nature. When they saw the moon in the sky waxing and waning, they thought it might be a sign from heaven. As early as in ancient times, the custom of worshiping the moon has already appeared. Worshiping the moon on Autumn Eve is a relatively grand sacrificial activity. At first, the "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was scheduled on the autumnal equinox, but later it was changed to the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.

Mid-Autumn Festival Customs

1. Watching the Tide

In ancient my country, in addition to admiring the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, watching the tide was another Mid-Autumn event. The custom of watching the tide during the Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, and it was described in detail in Meicheng's "Qifa" in the Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of watching tides during the Mid-Autumn Festival became even more popular.

2. Lighting lanterns

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is still a custom of stacking tiles on top of a tower and lighting lanterns in the Huguang area, and there is a custom of making lantern boats in the Jiangnan area. The most lively display of lanterns is in Guangdong. A few days before the festival, families tie lanterns with bamboo strips, make them into various shapes and paste them in various colors. Mid-Autumn night lanterns with internal burning candles are tied to bamboo poles with ropes and hung vertically high in houses. They are commonly known as "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival".