The Mid-Autumn Festival holiday time varies from year to year, but it usually lasts for three days, which is obtained by taking a break or connecting with weekends. There is only one legal holiday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th of the lunar calendar.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, so it is named Mid-Autumn Festival because it is just half the value of Sanqiu. Some places also set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups and countries in China.
The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional festivals in China with the same reputation as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008.
Holiday customs:
1, enjoy the moon: the custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. It is said that the moon is closest to the earth this night, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there is a custom of drinking and enjoying the moon since ancient times. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and south, and there were different customs in different places. The written records of Mid-Autumn Festival activities appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but they did not become a habit. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces.
2. Chasing the Moon: The so-called "Chasing the Moon" means that after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the excitement is still unfinished, so the next night, many people invited relatives and friends to continue to enjoy the moon, named "Chasing the Moon". According to the preface of Lingnan Miscellaneous Notes by Chen Zihou, a Qing dynasty, "Good people in central Guangdong gather in Izayoi in August to treat wine and dishes and enjoy the moon, which is called chasing the moon."
3. Tide watching: In ancient times, in addition to enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zhejiang, tide watching was another Mid-Autumn Festival event. The custom of watching tide in Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, which was described in detail in Mei Cheng's Fu of Seven Hair in Han Dynasty. After the Han Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival tide watching became more popular. There are also records of watching the tide in Zhu Tinghuan's Supplementing the Past Events of Wulin in Ming Dynasty and Meng Liang Lu by Zi Mu in Song and Wu Dynasties.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival