The Mooncake Festival is called the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as "Moon Festival", "Moon Cake Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "August Meeting", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Mid-Autumn Festival". ", "August Festival", "August Meeting", "Chasing the Moon Festival", "Playing with the Moon Festival ", "Moon Worshipping Festival", "Daughter's Festival", "Reunion Festival", are traditional cultural festivals popular among many ethnic groups in the country. It is so named because it falls on the halfway point of the three autumns. The moon is said to be the largest, roundest and brightest on this night.

From ancient times to the present day, people have the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the daughter-in-law of the bride's family must return to her husband's family on this day to symbolize the meaning of success and auspiciousness. Its origin in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, stereotyped in the early Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the Song Dynasty, and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena, and evolved from the moon festival on the eve of autumn in the ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by folk customs such as sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine.

Mooncake Festival customs

1, moon festival, in China is a very ancient custom, in fact, the ancient people of the "moon god" of a kind of worship activities. In ancient times, the custom of "autumn evening moon". The moon, i.e., to worship the moon god.

2, moon cakes, also known as moon ball, harvest cake, Palace cake, reunion cake, etc., is the ancient Mid-Autumn Festival tribute to the moon god. Mooncakes were initially used as offerings to the moon god, and then people gradually took the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival to appreciate the moon and taste mooncakes as a symbol of family reunion.

3. People often eat mooncakes and osmanthus flowers during Mid-Autumn Festival, and consume all kinds of food made of osmanthus flowers, with pastries and candies being the most common. Mid-autumn night, looking up at the moon in the laurel, smell the fragrance of osmanthus, drink a cup of osmanthus honey wine, celebrating the family sweet, has become a holiday a beautiful enjoyment. In modern times, people mostly take red wine instead.