The Mid-Autumn Festival
2021 09/15
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, and fixed in the early years in the Tang Dynasty, prevailed in the Song Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of customs in the fall, and the factors that are included, most of them have ancient origins. The Mid-Autumn Festival is rounded in the moon, to hit the hometown of hometown, though the loved ones, and pray for harvest, happiness, and become a colorful and precious cultural heritage. Mid-Autumn Festival and the Spring Festival, the Ching Ming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, called China's four traditional festivals. Affected by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also traditional festivals in Some countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese overseas Chinese. On May 20, 2006, the State Council included them in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival is listed as national legal holidays.