The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of July in the lunar calendar. The "July 30" was originally a folk festival for ancestor worship in ancient times, but it was called the "Mid-Autumn Festival", which originated from the law of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is commonly known as Ghost Festival, shi gu, and July and a half, and the Buddha is called the Bonin Festival. With New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, it is a traditional ancestor worship festival in China, and it is also a traditional cultural festival popular in various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of setting off river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival

The main folk customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are: setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to ancestors, burning street clothes, praying for a bumper harvest, steaming sheep and eating ducks. The main taboos are: no shoes, no ghosts, no night trips, no swimming, no stealing sacrifices, no taking pictures at night, no playing with paper, no whistling, no long hair, no hanging wind chimes by the bed, etc.

The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is different in different parts of the country. For example, Botou City and Nanpi County in Hebei Province carried fruits, preserved meat, wine and money to the ancestral graves on July 15th. Scholars in Yonghe County, Shanxi Province sacrificed Kuixing on this day. The shepherd's family in Zhangzi county and the Mid-Autumn Festival slaughter sheep to compete with God. When Zhongyuan worshiped the local officials in Shangqiu County, Henan Province, a paper flag was hung at the door, which was said to prevent insects. Flying kites on the Mid-Autumn Festival in Mengjin County, and so on.