Family reunion? Overjoyed? Reunion and sincerity? Joyous? Harmony and mutual dependence? Family joy? Happiness and full moon? Missing people in the moon? Gather together happily Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and August Festival
, August Party, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worshiping Festival, Girl's Day or Reunion Festival are traditional cultural festivals popular among many ethnic groups in China and countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. They fall on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.
Because it happens to be in the middle of the third autumn, hence the name, some places also set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th.
The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early Tang Dynasty and became popular in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major Chinese festivals as famous as the Spring Festival.
Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.
Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday.
On May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and other customs, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time.
The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the round moon as a sign of people's reunion, expressing the feeling of missing one's hometown and relatives, and praying for a good harvest and happiness. It has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage.
The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Qingming Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China.