There is no custom of eating rice dumplings during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Eating rice dumplings is a custom during the Dragon Boat Festival. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine. These customs have been passed down to this day and are enduring. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the round moon as a sign of people's reunion, expressing the feeling of missing one's hometown and relatives, and praying for a good harvest and happiness, which has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage.

The Dragon Boat Festival customs are rich and colorful, mainly including dragon boat racing, dragon worship, gathering herbal medicine, hanging mugwort, drinking water at noon, washing herbal medicine, worshiping gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, and Paper dragons, paper kites, tied with five-color silk threads, sachets, etc.

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The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a remnant of the ancient custom of worshiping celestial phenomena and respecting the moon. During the "Autumnal Equinox" of the 24 solar terms, it is the ancient "Moon Sacrifice Festival", and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Moon Sacrifice Festival". In traditional culture, the moon is the same as the sun. These two alternating celestial bodies have become the objects of worship by the ancestors.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's worship of the moon and is a remnant and derivative of the Chinese nation's custom of worshiping the moon. Sacrifice to the moon is a very ancient custom in our country. It is actually an activity of worshiping the "Moon God" by the ancients in some places in my country in ancient times. According to research, the original "Moon Sacrifice Festival" was scheduled on the "autumn equinox" of the 24th solar term in the Ganzhi calendar.

However, due to historical development, the calendar was later integrated and the lunar calendar (Xia calendar) was used, so the "Moon Festival Festival" was adjusted from the "Autumnal Equinox" of the 24 solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar to the 15th day of the eighth month of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar). The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, and most of the festival elements contained in it have ancient origins.