As the saying goes, "Seven fruits in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Fucai sitting at home", you can eat apples, persimmons, big red dates, pomegranates, peaches and grapes.

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival that many ethnic groups in China like. It is named because it is only half of Sanqiu. It is said that the moon on this night is the biggest, roundest and brightest. Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival. Daughter-in-law who goes back to her mother's house will also go back to her husband's house to express her happiness and good luck. It originated in ancient times, was popular in the Han Dynasty, took shape in the early Tang Dynasty, prevailed after the Song Dynasty, as well as in the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Qing Ji.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

Festivals are the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and the Legend of the Moon Palace. It originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty.

The evening moon is the autumnal equinox when the ancient emperors offered sacrifices to the moon. "Li Zhou Guan Chun Zong Bo Dian Rui" Zheng Xuan notes: "The son of heaven always scores spring morning sun and late autumn sun." "Biography of Historical Records of Xiaowu" quoted Ying Shao as saying: "The son of heaven shines in the spring, in the morning sun, in the autumn moon, worships the east gate of the sun, in the morning sun, and in the evening moon." Now the Moon Altar in Beijing, formerly known as the Moon Altar, is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed the moon at the autumnal equinox.

Because there is not necessarily a moon on the night of the autumnal equinox, and the moon is not necessarily round, it will spoil the scenery, so people gradually put the autumnal equinox festival on the Mid-Autumn Festival.