Is there a holiday fee for Mid-Autumn Festival?

Not every place will pay holiday fees in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Some economically developed areas will pay holiday fees during the Mid-Autumn Festival, while those economically underdeveloped areas will not.

And these cities that are going to pay the festival fee in the Mid-Autumn Festival mainly consider that the expenses of the retired elderly in the Mid-Autumn Festival will increase, and paying the festival fee can give the elderly some economic subsidies. At the same time, the payment of holiday expenses can also stimulate the consumption demand of the elderly, which is also beneficial to promoting domestic demand.

The custom of Mid-Autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine. As one of the most important ceremonies in ancient China, offering sacrifices to the moon began in the pre-Qin period and was a royal ceremony. Later, it evolved into a ceremony with the theme of "family reunion".

Offering sacrifices to the moon has a long history, and it is an activity of worshipping the "Moon God" in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient "Moon Festival". Moon-watching sacrifice is an important part of Mid-Autumn Festival activities. In the folk, it expresses people's wish of reunion. When the bright moon rises in the east of Ran Ran, people will set up a box in the courtyard to worship the moon. The offerings are mainly moon cakes, plus melons and fruits, especially grapefruit. The offerings are mostly round, which means reunion.

After the festival, the family sat together, drinking osmanthus wine, eating moon cakes, watching the bright moon and telling stories about the moon, such as Cowherd and Weaver Girl, and WU GANG cutting down trees.