1, family reunion: Mid-Autumn Festival emphasizes the importance of family, and it is a time for family reunion. On this special day, people put aside their busy work and get together with their families to share happiness and warmth. Mid-Autumn Festival is an important opportunity to inherit and carry forward family values, which teaches us to cherish and respect the family, especially in modern society, this traditional value is becoming more and more precious.
2. Respect your ancestors: Mid-Autumn Festival is also a time to respect your ancestors. During the festival, people will pay tribute to their ancestors and thank them for their shelter and gifts. By offering sacrifices to our ancestors, we can remember and respect our past, and at the same time we can pass on these values and cultural traditions to the next generation.
3. Cultural inheritance: Mid-Autumn Festival is an important part of China traditional culture, which represents the essence of China traditional culture. By celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can inherit and carry forward the traditional culture of China. This festival is full of rich historical, cultural and artistic connotations, which enables us to better understand and appreciate the cultural heritage of China.
4. Social communication: The Mid-Autumn Festival is also a time for social communication. In this festival, people not only get together with their families, but also get together with relatives and friends to exchange feelings and share happiness. This kind of social communication can strengthen the connection and friendship between people and help to establish harmonious social relations.
The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival:
The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the worship culture of the Moon God in ancient China. In ancient China, it was very common for people to worship and sacrifice astronomical phenomena, nature and the universe, and the moon, as a mysterious and important celestial body, also became the object of worship and sacrifice. On August 15th in autumn, the moon reached its roundest, brightest and fullest state in a year, and people's worship and sacrifice to the moon also reached its climax.
In the culture of offering sacrifices to the moon god, people will pray for the blessing of the moon god through the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon, hoping for family peace, bumper harvest and reunion. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the moon is usually held at night. People place offerings in the courtyard, light lanterns and worship the moon god. Then the whole family sits around to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes, and enjoy the happiness of reunion. This tradition gradually evolved into a folk custom, passed down from generation to generation, and finally became today's Mid-Autumn Festival.