Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Influenced by Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. On May 20, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon in autumn in ancient times. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have spread to this day and lasted for a long time.

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In ancient China, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival banquet was the most elegant in the court. For example, eating crabs was popular in the court in the Ming Dynasty. After the crabs were steamed with cattails, everyone sat around and tasted them, accompanied by wine and vinegar. Drink Su Ye Tang after eating and wash your hands with it. The banquet table area is full of flowers, pomegranates and other fashionable things, and the mythical dramas of the Mid-Autumn Festival are performed. In the Qing Palace, a screen was placed eastward in a certain courtyard, and cockscomb flowers, soybean technology, taro, peanuts, radishes and fresh lotus roots were put on both sides of the screen. There is a square table in front of the screen, with an extra-large moon cake on it, surrounded by cakes and fruits. After the moon festival, the moon cake was cut into several pieces according to the royal population, and each person symbolically tasted it, which was called "Eating Reunion Cake". The size of the moon cakes in Qing Palace is unimaginable. For example, a moon cake given by the last emperor to the minister in charge of the interior was "about two feet in diameter and weighing about twenty pounds".

Playing male prostitute is a popular Mid-Autumn Festival custom in northern China. The custom of playing Mid-Autumn Festival in male prostitute began at the end of Ming Dynasty. "Old Beijing" celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, besides eating moon cakes, there is also a custom for male prostitute. "male prostitute" rabbit head, wearing armor, inserted to protect the back flag, or sitting or standing, or pestle or riding a beast, with two big ears. At first, "male prostitute" was used for the Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai. In the Qing Dynasty, "male prostitute" was gradually transformed into a Mid-Autumn Festival toy for children.

Ming Dynasty's "The Remaining Draft of Kao Pavilion": "The Mid-Autumn Festival in Beijing is mostly in the shape of a mud rabbit, dressed like a human figure, and worshipped by children." By the Qing Dynasty, the function of male prostitute had changed from offering sacrifices to the moon to children's Mid-Autumn Festival toys. The rabbit is made of mud. The rabbit's head is covered with armor, a flag is inserted to protect his back, his face is covered with gold mud, and he is painted, sitting or standing, pounding on a pestle or riding a beast, with two big ears standing upright, which is also harmonious. "Yanjing Years Old": "Every Mid-Autumn Festival, people who are clever in the city use loess to make a toad and rabbit image for sale, which is called male prostitute." The court in the Qing Dynasty called the Jade Rabbit in the Moon Taiyin Jun.. However, Beijingers call it male prostitute. In the folk customs around Beijing, the Mid-Autumn Festival sacrifice to male prostitute is actually less solemn and more games.