Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year, and it is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The moral of Mid-Autumn Festival is reunion. For China people, Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion and peace. People think that the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival is the biggest and roundest. The full moon symbolizes prosperity, happiness and reunion.
The significance of Mid-Autumn Festival:
Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. It is also called the four traditional festivals in China along with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of more than 3,000 years, which can be traced back to the worship of the moon in Shang Dynasty. Because of the important position of the Mid-Autumn Festival, poets in all previous dynasties wrote poems for it. Stories and legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival were widely circulated among the people, and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival was also explored by China people in all previous dynasties.
Mid-Autumn Festival represents reunion. In our country, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, wanderers will go home to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes with their families. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes the perfection of the family and the reunion of people, and also entrusts people with their infinite love for life and yearning for a better life.