Mid-Autumn Festival means that families get together and have a happy family. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciation Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups in China and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major festivals in China, which was as famous as the Spring Festival.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

1, Moon Appreciation: Folk Mid-Autumn Festival Moon Appreciation began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, but it has not yet become a custom. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces.

2. Eating moon cakes: According to Luo Zhong's records, Tang Xizong eats moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival, which is very delicious, so he ordered the chef to wrap them in HongLing and give them to the new scholars. This may be the earliest record of moon cakes we can see.

3. Sacrifice to the Moon: The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the sacrifice to the Moon God in ancient times, which is the legacy and derivative of the custom of sacrificing to the Moon in China. Sacrificing the moon is one of the important ceremonies in ancient China. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, emperors had the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun at the vernal equinox, to the sun in summer, to the moon at the autumnal equinox and to the sun in winter.