Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day and Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups in China. It is named because its value is only half that of Sanqiu. It is said that the moon is the biggest, roundest and brightest tonight.
Since ancient times, people have had the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival night. The daughter-in-law who goes back to her mother's house will go back to her husband's house every day to express the meaning of complete and auspicious celebration. It originated in ancient times, popularized in Han Dynasty, shaped in the early years of Tang Dynasty, prevailed after Song Dynasty, and was called the four traditional festivals in China together with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, and evolved from the ancient autumn festival to the moon. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.
Festive folklore
Reach for the moon
The so-called "chasing the moon" means that after the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, the excitement is not over yet. So the next night, many people invited relatives and friends to continue to enjoy the moon, which is called "chasing the moon". According to the preface of A Qing Chen Zihou's "Lingnan Miscellanies", "In August, people in Guangdong were in Izayoi, gathering relatives and friends to drink and enjoy the moon, which was called chasing the moon."
solve the riddle
On the Mid-Autumn Festival full moon night, many lanterns are hung in public places. People get together to guess the riddles written on lanterns. Because they are the favorite activities of most young men and women, and love stories are also heard in these activities, solve riddles on the lanterns is also derived as a form of love between men and women on Mid-Autumn Festival lanterns.