The Mid-Autumn Festival is a good time for family reunions when the flowers are blooming and the moon is full.

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"Qiu Jie", which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the full moon - an auspicious

symbol of abundance, harmony and luck. Adults will usually indulge in fragrant mooncakes of many varieties with a good cup of piping hot Chinese tea, while the little ones run around with their brightly-lit lanterns. "Zhong Qiu Jie" probably began as a

harvest festival. The festival was later given a mythological flavor with legends of Chang-E, the beautiful lady in the moon. According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching

the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank

it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the 14th century, the eating of mooncakes at "Zhong Qiu Jie" was given a new significance. The story goes

that when Zhu Yuan Zhang was plotting to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty started by the Mongolians, the rebels hid their messages in the Mid-Autumn mooncakes. Zhong Qiu Jie is hence also a commemoration of the overthrow of the Mongolians by the Han people. During the

Yuan Dynasty (A.D.1206-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung Dynasty (A.D.960-1279) were unhappy at submitting to foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without it being discovered. The leaders

of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Packed into each mooncake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attacked and overthrew the government

. What followed was the establishment of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this event. Mid-Autumn Day is a traditional festival in China. Almost everyone likes to eat mooncakes on that day. Most

families have a dinner together to celebrate the festival. A saying goes, "The moon in your hometown is almost always the brightest and roundest". Many people who live far away from homes want to go back to have a family reunion. How happy it

is to enjoy the moon cakes while watching the full moon with your family members. It is customary to call the Mid-Autumn Festival "Little New Year's Day" in Wanquan County, Hebei Province. On the moonlight paper, there are pictures of the Moon Star Lord and Guandi reading the Spring and Autumn Festival at night.

People in Hejian County believe that the Mid-Autumn rain is bitter rain. If it rains during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the locals believe that the vegetables must taste bad.

On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, a man went boating and climbed a cliff, while the woman arranged a banquet.

Regardless of whether you are rich or poor, you must eat watermelon.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are drummers who play drums along the door to ask for rewards.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival in Luochuan County, parents led their students to bring gifts to pay homage to their husbands, and there were more lunches than on-campus dinners.

Many special Mid-Autumn Festival customs have also been formed in some places.

In addition to appreciating the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon, and eating moon cakes, there are also fire dragon dances in Hong Kong, pagodas in Anhui, tree Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, burning pagodas in Jinjiang, watching the moon at Shihu Lake in Suzhou, moon worship by the Dai people, and moon dancing by the Miao people.

, Dong people’s moon-stealing vegetables, Gaoshan people’s ball dance, etc.

Burning pagodas on Mid-Autumn Festival is also very popular in some places.

The height of the tower ranges from 1 to 3 meters, and it is mostly built with broken tiles. Large towers are also built with bricks, accounting for about 1/4 of the tower height, and then stacked tiles, leaving a

The tower mouth is used for putting fuel.

In Xiamen, Fujian Province, every time the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, in the darkening night of Xiamen, the sweet jingle of dice against porcelain bowls during cake gambling can be heard in the streets and alleys.

Xiamen's Xiamen cakes are also called Xiamen Mid-Autumn Festival cakes and Xiamen cakes.

Chinese people in southern China, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia carry lanterns on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Or hang lanterns in front of their doors.

Or hang a lantern in front of your door.

Fire dragon dance is the most traditional custom of Hong Kong Mid-Autumn Festival.

Starting from the 14th night of the eighth lunar month every year, a grand fire dragon dance event is held for three consecutive nights in the Tai Hang area of ??Causeway Bay.

In Taiwan, the Mid-Autumn Festival, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, is an important folk festival and the whole Taiwan has a day off.

To this day, ordinary people in Taiwan still have the habit of admiring the moon and eating moon cakes and grapefruit.

On the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, people eat moon cakes to show "reunion".

Moon cakes, also called Hu cakes, palace cakes, moon cakes, harvest cakes, reunion cakes, etc., were offerings to worship the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times.

Mid-Autumn Festival customs in various countries Korean customs: family reunion and eating sponge cake. The most important thing about the Korean Mid-Autumn Festival is that the whole family reunites at the grandparents' house. First, they worship their ancestors, and then the whole family drinks, plays mahjong, dances, and admires the moon together.

It is customary to eat "song cake" during the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is a food somewhat similar to moon cakes.

Japanese customs: Eating dumplings and moon-viewing parties. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Japanese people eat "dumplings" made from glutinous rice, which come in different shapes and are mainly filled with bean paste.

Today, only a few places in Japan retain the custom of celebrating the Moon Festival, and some shrines and temples hold moon-viewing parties.

Thai customs: Placing longevity peaches and worshiping the Eight Immortals. People sit in front of a large square table to pray and worship Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Eight Immortals.

The table is also filled with delicacies such as "longevity peaches" and "moon cakes".

According to Thai legend, when praying for the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Eight Immortals will bring longevity peaches to the Moon Palace to wish Guanyin a birthday, and the gods will "bring blessings" to her.

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