Mid-Autumn Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the second month of autumn, its symbol is the full moon in May, which is in the middle of Sanqiu, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moonlight on this night is brighter than usual, and it is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival" because the Mid-Autumn Festival is in autumn and August, and it is also called "Autumn Festival" and "August Festival".
Because the sacrifices to the moon and Yue Bai are also called "Moon Festival" and "Moon Festival"; Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day" because families get together and married daughters go home for reunion. Mid-Autumn Festival, all kinds of melons and fruits are mature. Because it is called "Fruit Festival", Dong people call it "Pumpkin Festival" and Mulao people call it "Afterlife Festival". People get together to enjoy the moon, offer sacrifices and celebrate the harvest in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The origin of festivals
Mid-Autumn Festival is the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and Moon Palace Legend. 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 Zhouguan Chunzong 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.