Mid-Autumn Festival
time:Oct 19,2016
According to the Chinese calendar, the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, the second month of autumn, called "Zhongqiu", and August 15th is in "Zhongqiu", so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".
"West Lake Tour Zhiyu" said: "August 15 is called Mid-Autumn Festival, the folks send the moon cakes, take the meaning of reunion." The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival to appreciate the moon, according to historians, is that it originated from the sacrificial activities of the ancient emperors. "Book of Rites" records: "The emperor worship the sun in spring and the moon in autumn.", indicating that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to worship the moon. Later, the aristocratic bureaucrats and scholars of the literati also followed suit and gradually spread to the people.
Or, the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is related to agricultural production. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is: "The crop is mature." In the Mid-Autumn Festival, crops and various fruits have matured, in order to celebrate the harvest and express the joy, the peasants used the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a holiday, so the Mid-Autumn Festival may be a custom inherited by the ancient "Autumn".
