The Mid-Autumn Festival can also be called the Mid-Autumn Festival, Girl's Day, August Festival, and Moon Worship Festival.

1. Mid-Autumn Festival: According to the Chinese lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. Therefore, the ancient Chinese calendar divides the eight days in the middle of autumn into The moon is called "Zhongqiu", so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Zhongqiu Festival".

2. Daughter's Day: The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Daughter's Day", but it is only popular in Nanjing. Because every Mid-Autumn Festival night, each family displays incense tables in the courtyard under the moonlight. According to custom, most of the women in the family are worshipped. Even the daughter-in-law who returns to her parents' home temporarily has to return to her husband's house to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

3. August Festival: The Gelao people are an ancient ethnic group in China. The most solemn traditional festival of the Gelao people is the August Festival, also called the "Welcome New Valley Festival". It is held on the tenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. Held on the fifth day, the Gelao people attach great importance to this festival because it is a festival for the Gelao people to welcome a good harvest.

4. Moon Worshiping Festival: The name of the Moon Worshiping Festival is related to a legend: According to legend, Wu Yan, an ugly girl from the ancient Qi State, worshiped the moon devoutly when she was a child. When she grew up, she entered the palace with outstanding moral character, but she did not Be favored. On August 15th of a certain year, the emperor saw her under the moonlight while admiring the moon. He thought she was beautiful and outstanding, so he made her his queen. This is how the Mid-Autumn Festival came to worship the moon. In the middle of the moon, Chang'e is famous for her beauty, so the girl worships the moon and wishes that she "looks like Chang'e and has a face like the bright moon."

The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival:

Hou Yi was deeply respected and loved by the people all over the world because he shot down the nine suns in the sky to eliminate harm to the people. Then he married the beautiful and kind-hearted Chang'e as his wife. One day, Hou Yi went to Kunlun Mountain to visit friends and seek enlightenment. He happened to meet the Queen Mother who was passing by. So he asked the Queen Mother for two elixirs of immortality. Taking one pill would make him immortal, and taking two pills would make him ascend to heaven and become an immortal. Hou Yi couldn't bear it. He left his wife and ascended to heaven, so he gave the two elixirs to Chang'e to keep.

Hou Yi had an apprentice named Peng Meng, who was a villain. When Chang'e hid the elixir in the treasure box, he peeped at it and started to develop the elixir. Three days later, Hou Yi led his disciples to hunt. Peng Meng claimed that he was ill and did not go. After Hou Yi left, he held a sword and threatened Chang'e to hand over the elixir. Chang'e knew that she was no match for Peng Meng, so she quickly opened the treasure box and swallowed the two elixirs in one breath. After Chang'e swallowed the elixir, she immediately felt light and able to fly, so she flew out of the window and into the sky.

Because she was concerned about her husband Hou Yi, Chang'e landed on the moon closest to her home. After Hou Yi returned home, the maids told him what happened during the day. Hou Yi was shocked and angry. The villain Peng Meng had already fled. Hou Yi was distraught. He stamped his feet and beat his chest, looked up to the sky and shouted his wife's name. In the haziness, I discovered that the moon was particularly bright that night, which happened to be August 15th, and there was a shaking figure in the moon, which looked exactly like Chang'e.

So Hou Yi sent people to Chang'e's favorite back garden, set up an incense table, and offered sacrifices to Chang'e in the Moon Palace. From then on, every August 15th, people would set up incense tables under the moonlight to worship Chang'e and pray for good fortune and peace for the beautiful and kind-hearted Chang'e.