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What is the meaning and origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Mid-Autumn Festival is a Taoist name, which is called July and a half in folk customs, and it is called the Bonin Festival in Buddhism.

Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.

July is an auspicious month and a month of filial piety, and July 3 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in the early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so according to the law, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. It is a traditional cultural festival in memory of ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and do filial piety.