The Mid-Autumn festival, also known as yuexi, women's festival or reunion festival, is popular in many ethnic groups and Chinese cultural circle of traditional cultural festivals, it falls on the lunar August 15.

The Mid-Autumn festival began in the early Tang dynasty and prevailed in the Song dynasty, by the Ming and Qing dynasties, it had become one of the Chinese traditional festivals as famous as the Spring Festival. Under the influence of Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn festival is also a traditional festival in some countries of east Asia and southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese.

There are several traditional activities for the Mid-Autumn festival：

Sacrifice the moon, appreciate the moon, worship the moon

In ancient times, the mid - autumn night will be held to welcome the cold and sacrifice to the moon. Set a big incense table, put on the moon cake, watermelon, apple, dates, plums, grapes and other offerings, among which the moon cake and watermelon is absolutely not less, watermelon also cut into lotus shape. Even today, it is one of the indispensable activities for families to sit together and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the bright moon.

Eating moon cakes

Appreciating the moon and eating moon cakes are the main customs of Mid-Autumn festival across China. People put the moon and moon cakes together, meaning family reunion, sustenance miss. At the same time, moon cakes are also an important gift for friends to connect with each other.

Enjoy osmanthus and drink osmanthus wine

People often eat moon cakes and enjoy osmanthus in the Mid-Autumn festival, eat a variety of foods made with osmanthus, the most common is cakes and candy. Mid-Autumn night, looking at the middle of the laurel, smell bursts of osmanthus, drink a cup of laurel honey wine, celebrating the family sweet honey, which has become a festival of beauty enjoy. In modern times, wine is often used instead.

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Written by Niki