On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, a full moon shines on the earth, symbolizing perfection and reunion. According to the old saying, every Mid-Autumn Festival, the whole family should get together, and even married women should go home. The bright moon comes first, and the family sits around the table in front of the window, drinking tea, drinking and eating, looking forward to the full moon and telling their loved ones that they are happy and eager. Mid-Autumn Festival is a family reunion festival, and its cultural connotation focuses on the word reunion.
There is a plate of moon cakes, a pot of tea and some melons and fruits on the table in the yard. The family enjoys the moon while eating moon cakes. "It only takes one round to hold it up in the sky, and everyone looks up", which is a traditional scene for China people to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Today, this traditional way of celebrating festivals is still the first choice for people. ?
According to records, as early as 2000 years ago, in the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night of the lunar calendar, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. According to legend, Ming Di of the Tang Dynasty visited the Moon Palace on the evening of August 15th, so people took this day as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang and other beautiful legends about the moon have also painted this festival with mysterious colors.