Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Worship Festival. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have spread to this day and lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the full moon as a sign of people's reunion, as the sustenance of missing their hometown and their loved ones, and hoping for a bumper harvest and happiness.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and Chinese areas around the world. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008. On May 20th, 2006, the People's Republic of China and the State Council of China listed it in the first national intangible cultural heritage list.

Chinese name

Mid-Autumn Festival

foreign name

Mid-Autumn Festival

another name

Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Evening and Reunion Festival

Festival time

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

Festival type

One of the four traditional festivals in China.

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The Origin and Local Characteristics of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Folk Culture of Selected Films

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of the worship of celestial phenomena in ancient times-the custom of respecting the moon. In the autumn equinox season, it is an ancient "Moon Festival", while the Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the traditional "Moon Festival". In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies have become the objects of ancestor worship. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of the Chinese custom of offering sacrifices to the moon. Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a worship activity of the ancient people in some places in ancient China to the "Moon God". According to textual research, the "Moon Festival" was originally set on the day of the autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, because the day in August of the summer calendar is different every year, there may not always be a full moon. Later, the "Moon Festival" was transferred from the autumnal equinox to August 15th of the summer calendar (lunar calendar). The Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon and enjoying the moon since ancient times, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time. [ 1][2][3][4][5][6][7]