THE MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

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China’s traditional Mid-Autumn Day falls on 24th September this year. For Chinese, they watch the moon and eat moon cakes. But for foreigners, what this festival means? And how much do you know about this “reunion” day? Today we will share information about Mid-Autumn Day in three aspects.

I. Origin of Mid-Autumn festival
In Tang Dynasty (618BC-907BC), it was very fashionable in the upper class to watch the moon, drink sweet wine and eat delicious food. Under the guidance of the upper class, more and more people began to imitate their actions, even social people improved this action, and they began to gather and throw parties.

It was until the Northern Song Dynasty (960BC-1127BC) that this fashion became popular among ordinary people. And Zhao kuo, emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127BC-1279BC), declared there was one-day holiday to celebrate the Mid-Autumn festival.

II. The origin of eating moon cakes
In the Sui and Tang Dynasty, a general who was inspired by the full moon, and invented the round cakes to solve the military grain problem, which was known as small cakes, palace cakes, moon cakes.
After the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn festival has a meaning of reunion; so people began to eat moon cakes on this day to express their homesick and lovesick.

III. One of the taboos on Mid-Autumn festival
 goes thus: "male does not worship the moon, which means the men with masculine features, does not match with the moon. (According to China’s special culture, Yang, such as the sun, stands for men, and Yin, such as the moon, stands for women.) So the custom of worshiping the moon originally is only suitable for females to participate. Such a wonderful holiday for all of us this season.

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These are all information on the Internet. If you want to know the Mid-Autumn Festival through online information, your understanding is obviously not deep enough.
Let me tell you what Mid-Autumn Festival means for the Chinese from my understanding.

1. Explain the significance of the word "Mid-Autumn",This is not the year of the AD year, this is the Chinese lunar calendar, so the “Autumn” here is the autumn of the Chinese lunar calendar，This is an ancient calendar derived from the sun, only 354 days or 355 days a year, only 29 days or 30 days a month.

2. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is the closest to a round shape.The “round shape” is written in Chinese as “圓”. And this word has another meaning in Chinese，this word also means "reunion" in Chinese. Therefore, the moon also symbolizes the meaning of reunion in the hearts of Chinese people. On this day of every year, the Chinese will gather together for dinner. Over time, this day has evolved into a festival that the Chinese call it the Mid-Autumn Festival.

[MrPao]

1. Explain the significance of the word "Mid-Autumn",This is not the year of the AD year, this is the Chinese lunar calendar, so the “Autumn” here is the autumn of the Chinese lunar calendar，This is an ancient calendar derived from the sun, only 354 days or 355 days a year, only 29 days or 30 days a month.

2. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is the closest to a round shape.The “round shape” is written in Chinese as “圓”. And this word has another meaning in Chinese，this word also means "reunion" in Chinese. Therefore, the moon also symbolizes the meaning of reunion in the hearts of Chinese people. On this day of every year, the Chinese will gather together for dinner. Over time, this day has evolved into a festival that the Chinese call it the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Exact explanation.
This is the most Chinese interpretation of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon symbolizes reunion. It is just such a simple truth.