The significance of Mid-Autumn Festival: symbolizing the reunion of relatives; Background: It originated from the worship of the moon in ancient times.

1, meaning

The Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history in China. In China, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, wanderers will go home to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes with their families. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes the perfection of families and the reunion of people, and also entrusts people with their infinite love for life and yearning for a better life.

The Mid-Autumn Festival custom has a long history, and it is close to the needs of life. It concentrates all the autumn festivals and customs on the Mid-Autumn Festival, making the Mid-Autumn Festival one of the major festivals to celebrate and enjoy in the four seasons.

2. Background

Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China, and it is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "Moon God". In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn dusk and evening moon". Evening moon, that is, worship the moon god. Since ancient times, in some parts of Guangdong, people have the custom of worshipping the Moon God (Moon Mother and Moonlight) on the Mid-Autumn Festival night. In Yue Bai, a big incense table was set up, offering sacrifices such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

1, eat moon cakes, moon cakes are round, symbolizing reunion, which means reunion is beautiful. It reflects people's good wishes for family reunion. It is said that eating moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival began in Yuan Dynasty.

2. male prostitute is a representative of the Mid-Autumn Festival custom in Beijing. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, mud rabbit stalls can be seen on the streets of Beijing. Male prostitute is a jade rabbit in the Moon Palace. After it is artistically and personified, it is molded into various shapes with mud. Because the Jade Rabbit is a sacred object, in order to show respect, people call this Mid-Autumn Festival children's toy "male prostitute".

3. Burn the lamp. The candle in the Mid-Autumn Night Lamp is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope, hung high on the tile eaves or terrace, or hung in the shape of a word with a small lamp, commonly known as "Mid-Autumn Festival on a tree" or "Vertical Mid-Autumn Festival".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Mid-Autumn Festival