The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is often called "July 30" or "Ghost Festival". The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of July in the lunar calendar every year, so the solar calendar time is not fixed. In some areas of southern China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on July 14th. For example, people in Guangxi usually celebrate it on July 14th in advance, and there are some differences in customs in many places.

Usually, most people think that it is the midnight of July 14 of the lunar calendar, and it is not until July 15 that it belongs to Ghost Festival. It is also said that July 14th is Ghost Festival and July 15th is Mid-Autumn Festival.

Holiday customs:

Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices.

It is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety. There is a custom of setting off river lanterns on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Generally, lanterns or candles are placed on the base, and they are placed in rivers, lakes and seas at Mid-Autumn Festival, leaving them floating.