The Harvest Festival among the Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities is on the tenth day of the tenth lunar month. Among some ethnic minorities such as the She people in China, the Harvest Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Also called "Pongal Festival" in South India, it takes place around mid-March in the Gregorian calendar.

In China, the tenth day of the tenth lunar month is the traditional Harvest Festival, which has a history of thousands of years. It mainly celebrates the harvest of the year and worships the harvest god "Yandi Shennong". Chinese folk believe that the Double Tenth Festival of the Lunar Calendar is a "perfect and perfect" auspicious day, and those who register their marriages on this day even think of it as a "perfect and perfect marriage."

On June 21, 2018, the State Council approved the establishment of the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" and agreed to establish the annual Autumn Equinox of the lunar calendar as the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival" starting from 2018.

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The "harvest" in the Harvest Festival contains profound and long-standing folk cultural origins. "Farmers' Harvest Festival" is a modern festival concept. There was no festival with the same name in ancient my country. The ancient harvest festival was not only a favor to the agricultural gods and a thank you to those who contributed to the harvest, but also included a prayer for the agricultural harvest in the coming year. It not only reflected the conceptual belief in heaven and earth, but also reflected the national will of attaching importance to agriculture and showing compassion to farmers.

According to legend, my country has carried out the "Sacrifice to Sheji" activity, which began in the time of Dayu of the Xia Dynasty and lasted for more than 4,000 years. For thousands of years, harvest celebrations have been integrated into the production, life and emotional world of the Chinese nation, promoting the continuation and development of Chinese farming culture.

The Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival is a festival that carries forward the past and opens up the future. The meaning of "harvest" here no longer only refers to the pursuit of "harvest three to five bushels more", but also requires high yield, good quality and excellent price, which is a comprehensive harvest of economic, social and ecological benefits.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Harvest Festival

China Communist Party News Network-Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival