The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Eve, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Moon Niang Festival, Moon Festival, Reunion Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the ancient "Moon Festival" during the "autumn equinox" season of the twenty-four solar terms. The Mid-Autumn Festival is derived from the ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, and is the legacy and derivation of the custom of the Chinese nation to worship the moon. Sacrificing the moon is a very ancient custom in our country. It is actually a worship activity for the "moon god" by the ancients in some parts of our country in ancient times.

The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the full moon to signify the reunion of people. It is a rich and precious cultural heritage for yearning for the hometown, the love of loved ones, and wishing for a good harvest and happiness.

Mid-autumn customs:

1. Sacrifice to the month

Sacrificing the moon is a very ancient custom in our country. It is actually a worship activity of the ancients to the "moon god". In ancient times, there was a custom of "autumn evening and evening moon". Under the moon, people place the "Lunar God" tablet in the direction of the moon, and the red candle is burning high, and the whole family pays homage to the moon in turn, praying for blessings. Sacrificing the moon and admiring the moon, and contemplating the moon, expressed people's best wishes.

2. Eat moon cakes

Moon cakes, also called moon cakes, harvest cakes, palace cakes, reunion cakes, etc., are the offerings for worshipping the moon god during the Mid-Autumn Festival in ancient times. Moon cakes were originally used as offerings to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually took the Mid-Autumn Festival to admire the moon and taste moon cakes as a major symbol of family reunion.

3. Burning lamp

On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lights to help the moonlight. Nowadays, there is still a custom of using tiles to stack towers on the towers to light the lights in the Huguang area. In the Jiangnan area, there is a custom of making light boats. Modern Mid-Autumn Festival lighting is more popular. The lamp hanging in the home of wealth is several feet high. The family gathers under the lamp to drink and have fun, while ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns, and also enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and the world of colored glaze.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Chinese will give each other moon cakes to give blessings. There are six major factions of the moon cakes: Guangjin, Jingchao, Sudian. As a gift, the packaging of moon cakes is exquisitely made and the patterns are bright. More and more merchants are adding careful consideration to the packaging style of moon cakes to attract customers to buy. It is a good gift because of its magnificent eye-catching style

It is the Mid-Autumn Festival again, sincerely bless the love, the full moon is clear, the faint shadow of the osmanthus is slightly slanted, the falling Qinghui is very clean, and the warm and considerate, I would like to borrow this month temporarily, and I wish you a happy and happy family! Jiangsu Jincai wishes you a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy family!