Interpretation of Mid-Autumn Festival: the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Because it falls in the third month of autumn, it is called the "Mid-Autumn Festival". Folk customs include family reunions on this day, eating moon cakes and admiring the moon.

Mid-Autumn Festival

It has many other names: In ancient times, The activity of worshiping the moon on the eve of the autumnal equinox is called "Moon Festival" or "Moon Worship Festival". Because the festival falls on August 15th, it is called "August Festival" and "August Half"; because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all centered around the "moon", it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival"; the moon is full during the Mid-Autumn Festival , symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival".

The moon is full during the Mid-Autumn Festival, families are reunited, and married daughters go home for reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival" and "Daughter's Day". In Guangfu area, the Mid-Autumn Festival is commonly known as "Moonlight Festival". In mid-autumn, all kinds of fruits are ripe and on the market, so it is called the "Fruit Festival". The Dong people call it "Pumpkin Festival", and the Mulao people call it "Housheng Festival".