When is half August the Mid-Autumn Festival? The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is also the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the traditional festivals.

According to historical records, the word Mid-Autumn Festival first appeared in the book "Zhou Rites". During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there were records of people being ordered to suppress the cattle confusion, and on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, they went to the Yangtze River in private. In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. "Tang Shu Taizong Ji" records the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.

The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become as famous as New Year's Day and became one of my country's major traditional festivals, second only to the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in Southeast Asia.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 1. It originated from the sacrificial activities of ancient emperors

The Confucian classic "Book of Rites" in the pre-Qin and Western Han Dynasties records: The emperor rises to the sun in spring, the moon in autumn, and the moon in autumn. Yue means worshiping the moon, which shows that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, emperors had begun to worship and worship the moon. Later, noble officials, literati and scholars also followed suit, and it gradually spread to the people.

2. Originated from agricultural production

China has been a farming nation since ancient times, and autumn is the harvest season, especially in the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, when various crops, fruits and vegetables begin to mature. In order to celebrate the harvest and express their joy, people regard the Mid-Autumn Festival as a festival, which is the middle day of autumn. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited from the ancient people's autumn reports.

3. The theory of moon cakes

Some historians have pointed out that the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival should be that the Tang army in the late Sui Dynasty on August 15, the 13th year of Daye, the Tang army Pei Ji used the full moon as a symbol. Conceived and successfully invented moon cakes, which were widely distributed in the army as military pay, and successfully solved the military food problem caused by absorbing a large number of anti-Sui rebels, and derived the Mid-Autumn Festival.