The origin and customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are introduced in English as follows: The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production.
Autumn is the harvest season, and crops and fruits are maturing one after another.
In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, farmers take the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival.
The shape of the moon “round” in the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion, so as to express the feelings of missing hometown and relatives.
The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is that the whole family get together and bow down to the moon god, in order to pray for the family's peace and good luck.
Everyone will get together, enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes, play with lanterns, enjoy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink sweet-scented osmanthus wine.
Together with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival, they are called the four traditional Chinese festivals.
Translation: The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production.
Autumn is the harvest season, when crops and various fruits mature one after another. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, farmers use the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a festival.
The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the "round" shape of the moon to symbolize family reunion and express the feeling of missing one's hometown and relatives.
The main custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is for the whole family to get together and kneel down to worship the Moon God, with the purpose of praying for peace and good fortune for the family.
Everyone will be together, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine, etc.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China.
Introduction to Mid-Autumn Festival delicacies: dumplings, candied lotus roots, sesame cakes, salted duck, hairy crabs, duck meat, glutinous rice balls, duck meat, fried snails, lotus roots, glutinous rice cakes, osmanthus cakes, grapefruit, persimmons, chestnuts, pumpkins, moon cakes, etc.
It can be said to be a unique delicacy of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Every household has to buy moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is not only an important food to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also an important food to worship the moon with moon cakes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival usually falls in mid-to-late September in the Gregorian calendar.
At this time, crabs, snails, and lotus roots are on the market.
At this time, the snails have a lot of meat, but they will be pregnant with baby snails.
Therefore, it is better to raise them for a while before eating them, and let them spit out the small snails before eating them.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, grapefruit is full of fruits and juices, and apples are crisp and refreshing, sour and sweet.