The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
This is the middle of autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons,
and each quarter is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called midautumn.
The moon of August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon of other months, so it is also called "Yuexi" and "August Festival".
This night, people look up at the sky as jade as a plate of Lang Lang moon, naturally will look forward to family reunion.
The wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to express their missing feelings for their hometown and loved ones.
Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival". The people of our country have the custom of "autumn month"
in ancient times. The evening moon, that is, worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every autumn night was held to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon.
Set a large incense table, put on moon cakes, watermelon, apples, dates, plums, grapes and other offerings, of which moon cakes and watermelon are absolutely not less.
Watermelon also cut into lotus shape. Under the moon, the moon god in that direction of the moon, red candle burning, the whole family in turn worship the moon, and then by
the housewife cut the reunion moon cake. Cut people in advance to calculate how many people in the whole family, at home, in the field, should be counted together, can not cut
more or less, the size should be the same. According to legend, the ugly woman of the ancient state of Qi had no salt, and worshipped the moon when she was young. When she
grew up, she entered the palace with superior character, but she was not favored. One August 15 full moon, the son of heaven in the moonlight to see her, think she is beautiful,
after she set up as the queen, Mid-Autumn Festival worship from this. Chang 'e in the middle of the month, known for beauty, so the girl worship the moon, willing to "look like
Chang 'e, face such as bright moon."
