About the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival

“Mid-Autumn Festival”, also known as “Yue Xi”, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor had begun to worship the moon and worship the moon. It was gradually spread to the people. “Book of Tang Taizong Ji” contained “August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival” to the early Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty and became one of the most important festivals in my country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was also the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, and the Ching Ming Festival are also known as the four major traditional festivals in China.Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

Mid-autumn customs:

1. Eat moon cakes. “August and fifteen months are full, the Mid-Autumn Festival moon cakes are fragrant and sweet.” The term moon cake originated from the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zimu’s “Meng Liang Lu”, which was only a kind of snack food at that time. Later, people gradually combined moon viewing with moon cakes, which meant family reunion and yearning.

2. Sacrifice and admire the moon. Sacrificing the moon and admiring the moon is an important custom. In ancient times, emperors had the social system of offering sacrifices to the day in spring and offering sacrifices to the moon in autumn, and folk houses also had the tradition of offering sacrifices to the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, admiring the moon has become one of the most important activities for the common people during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Together with family and friends, sit and watch the moon, enjoy the coolness of autumn, and pin their hopes for reunion.

3. Enjoy sweet-scented osmanthus and drink sweet-scented osmanthus wine. People often eat various foods made from sweet-scented osmanthus during the Mid-Autumn Festival, most commonly in cakes and candies. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, looking up at the osmanthus in the moon, smelling bursts of cinnamon, and drinking a cup of sweet-scented osmanthus honey, it has become a kind of beautiful enjoyment in the festival.

4. Guess the riddle. Many lanterns were hung in public places on the mid-autumn full moon night, and people gathered together to guess the riddles written on the lanterns. Because it is a favorite activity of most young people, there are also many love stories in these activities.

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