What are the customs of the Han people to celebrate the Mid Autumn Festival? How did you live ?

Hello. The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Moonlight Festival, the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Moon Niang Festival, the Moon Festival, the Reunion Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the autumn and evening moon festivals in ancient times.

Originally, the festival of the "Moon Festival" was on the day of the "autumn equinox", the 24th solar term of the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was moved to the 15th day of August of the summer calendar (lunar calendar), and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 16th day of August of the summer calendar. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has folk customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down to this day and endured endlessly.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, was stereotyped in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, and most of the festival elements contained in it have ancient origins. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to reunite people, as a sustenance of missing hometown, missing relatives, praying for a good harvest and happiness, and becoming a colorful and precious cultural heritage.

Set up a moonlight position in the west, place moon cakes, apples and other tributes, and the family kneels and worships.

1. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of the moon in ancient times and has a long history. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first recorded in the "Zhou Li". Because of the ancient calendar of our country, August 15 of the lunar calendar is exactly the autumn of the year, and it is the middle of August, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

In addition, in the four seasons of the year, each season is divided into three parts: "Meng, Zhong, and Ji", so the second month of autumn is called "Zhongqiu". It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival;

2. The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival are to worship the moon, light the lamp, admire the moon, chase the moon, watch the tide, guess the riddle, eat moon cakes, enjoy osmanthus flowers, drink osmanthus wine, erect the Mid-Autumn Festival, play Lu Zai, tie lanterns, play with lanterns, burn incense, worship ancestors, dance the fire dragon, listen to incense, burn towers, Mid-Autumn Festival banquet customs, and play rabbits.

Extended Information: Mid-Autumn Festival Status:

The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

The Mid-Autumn Festival first originated in the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty had the Mid-Autumn Festival activities, and the Song Dynasty was the period when the Mid-Autumn Festival activities were more popular in China, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the status of the Mid-Autumn Festival has been no different from the status of the Spring Festival, influenced by Chinese culture, some areas of East Asia and Southeast Asia will also have the Mid-Autumn Festival, in the main gathering area of overseas Chinese, the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival will be more obvious.