Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. 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.
On May 20th, 2006, the State Council listed it in the first national intangible cultural heritage list. Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008.
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The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon in autumn in ancient times. Sacrificing the moon has a long history, which is a kind of worship activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China. The "autumnal equinox" of the 24 solar terms is an ancient "Festival of Sacrificing the Moon". The Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in the Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together.
The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first recorded in the documents of the Han Dynasty, and it was written in Zhou Li between the Han Dynasty (handed down by Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). It was said that in the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Night to welcome the cold", "Mid-Autumn Festival to offer good clothes" and "Autumn Equinox and the Moon (Yue Bai)". According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting and supporting the elderly and giving them coarse cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn.
There were also written records of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it was not very common. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty was not very popular in northern China.
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