✨ Zhong Qiu Jie Mid-Autumn Festival
📝 The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival, featuring moon viewing, moon cakes, and family reunions.
🏮 Cultural Significance
The Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion and yearning, and is a unique cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, carrying people's yearning for a better life.
📚 Historical Background
The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is said that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang designated this day as the Mid-Autumn Festival after tasting the newly paid moon cakes in autumn. Since then, the custom of watching the moon and eating moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival has gradually spread among the people.
🎭 Festival Customs & Traditions
🔸 moon viewing
The whole family enjoys the bright moon on a full moon night
🔸 Eat moon cakes
Sharing reunion mooncakes means reunion
🔸 burning lamp
Light the lantern and pray for blessing
🎉 Festival Activities
- 🌟 Family reunion
- 🌟 Taste all kinds of moon cakes
- 🌟 Ornamental lantern
- 🌟 Read poetry
Cultural Characteristics of Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most poetic festivals in traditional Chinese culture, combining astronomical calendar, folk culture, literature and art.
Reunion culture
On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the bright moon hangs high, which is an important moment for family reunion. People use the bright moon to express their thoughts for their distant relatives.
Food culture
Mooncakes are the most representative food of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Their round shape symbolizes reunion, and various regions have their own unique moon cake varieties, reflecting China’s rich food culture.
literature and art
The Mid-Autumn Festival inspired countless writers and writers, leaving behind a large number of moon-singing poems, which enriched the content of Chinese classical literature.