Mid-Autumn Festival (ZhongQiu Jie)

Mid Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, moon birthday, moon Eve, autumn festival, Mid Autumn Festival, moon worship Festival, moon mother's day, Moon Festival and reunion festival, is a traditional festival among Chinese people. The Mid Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon on autumn Eve in ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid Autumn Festival has folk customs such as sacrificing the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, playing lanterns, appreciating osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine and so on.

The Mid Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. The Mid Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs. Most of the festival customs factors contained in it have ancient origins. The Mid Autumn Festival symbolizes people's reunion with the full moon. In order to place the feeling of missing hometown and relatives, and pray for harvest and happiness, it has become a rich, colorful and precious cultural heritage.

At first, the festival period of "sacrificing the moon" was on the 24 solar terms "autumnal equinox" of the Ganzhi calendar, and then it was adjusted to August 15 of the summer calendar. The Mid Autumn Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are known as the four 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 local Chinese and overseas Chinese. On May 20, 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Since 2008, the Mid Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday.

On October 25, 2021, the notice of the general office of the State Council on the arrangement of some holidays in 2022 was issued. The Mid Autumn Festival in 2022 will be closed from September 10 to 12, a total of three days.

ZhongQiu Jie Wiki:

Chinese name	ZhongQiu Jie
Foreign name	Mid-AutumnFestival
alias	Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Mid Autumn Festival, autumn Eve, reunion festival, etc
Holiday time	the 15th day of the 8th month on the Chinese lunar calendar
Festival type	One of the four traditional festivals in China
Epidemic area	China and surrounding countries or regions
Festival origin	Celestial worship, offering sacrifices to the moon on autumn Eve
Festival activities	Worship the moon, enjoy the moon, dance fire dragons, play lanterns, etc
Holiday diet	Moon Cake
Holiday significance	Inherit and carry forward traditional culture
to establish an institution	Folk tradition
Set time	Ancient times
Intangible cultural heritage protection unit	Ministry of culture and Tourism