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Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moonlight Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times.
Offering sacrifices to the moon has a long history, and it is an activity of offering sacrifices to the "Moon God" in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient festival to worship the moon. 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 and drinking osmanthus wine.
Mid-Autumn Festival is usually the harvest season. It is an inherent law of nature that flowers bloom in spring and fruits are harvested in autumn. The ancients believed that a bumper harvest was the result of good weather. After the harvest, they will worship heaven and earth to show their gratitude. In ancient times, it gradually became a custom to offer sacrifices to the Moon God to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. With the development of the festival, the full moon gradually evolved into the meaning of "reunion of people".
Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. On May 20th, 2006, Mid-Autumn Festival was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. On June 65438+ 10/day, 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival was listed as a national holiday in the State Council.
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During the Tang Dynasty, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival became popular in northern China. In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival. Emperor Taizong recorded that the Mid-Autumn Festival was on August 15. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Chang 'an area in Tang Dynasty. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces.
The Mid-Autumn Festival combines fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang's felling of laurel, Jade Rabbit's smashing medicine, Yang Guifei's changing to the moon god, and Tang Dynasty's visit to the moon palace, making it full of romance, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.