Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Moon Worship Festival", "Daughter's Day" and "Reunion Festival", is very popular among many ethnic groups in China.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times.
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On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lanterns to help the moon. At present, there is still the custom of piling tiles on towers and burning lamps in Huguang area. In Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making lanterns, and the custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival is even more popular in modern times. Today, Zhou Yunjin and He He said in their article "Talking about the Four Seasons": "Guangdong has the most lanterns, and every household uses bamboo sticks to tie lanterns ten days before the festival. Make fruits, birds and animals, fish and insects, and "celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival" and so on, and paint various colors on the paste paper.
Candles burning in the Mid-Autumn Night Lantern are tied to bamboo poles with ropes and stand high on tile eaves or terraces, or they are built with small lanterns in zigzag or various shapes and hung on the heights of houses, commonly known as' Mid-Autumn Festival on the tree' or' Mid-Autumn Festival vertically'. Wealthy families hang lanterns as high as tens of feet, and the whole family gathers under the lanterns to enjoy drinking, while ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to entertain themselves. The city is full of lights and glass. The custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.