Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. According to China's calendar, August in the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, that is, the second month of autumn, which is called "Mid-Autumn Festival", and August 15th is among them, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Every Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone goes home for reunion, and the family sits together to eat moon cakes and chat. 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 "Moon Festival".

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According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting the elderly and sending coarse cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn. Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival, about in the Tang Dynasty. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival was popular in northern China in the Tang Dynasty. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.

The custom of enjoying the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Chang 'an area in Tang Dynasty. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces, and combined the Mid-Autumn Festival with fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang cutting laurel, Jade Rabbit tinkering with medicine, Yang Guifei changing into the moon god, and Tang Dynasty visiting the moon palace, which made it full of romance. 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.