What is the Harvest Festival?

It is the tenth day of the tenth lunar month among the Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities. Among some ethnic minorities such as the She people in China, it is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Also called "Pongal Festival" in South India, it takes place around mid-March in the Gregorian calendar. The State Council establishes the annual Autumn Equinox of the lunar calendar as the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival".

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It is the tenth day of the tenth lunar month among Han Chinese and most ethnic minorities. Among some ethnic minorities such as the She people in China, it is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Also called "Pongal Festival" in South India, it takes place around mid-March in the Gregorian calendar. The State Council establishes the annual Autumn Equinox of the lunar calendar as the "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival".

Which ethnic group’s festival is the Harvest Festival?

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In China, the tenth day of the tenth lunar month is the traditional Harvest Festival. The Harvest Festival has a history of thousands of years. . It mainly celebrates the harvest of the year and worships the harvest god "Yandi Shennong". Chinese folk believe that the Double Tenth Festival of the Lunar Calendar is a "perfect and perfect" auspicious day, and those who register their marriages on this day even think of it as a "perfect and perfect marriage." Every year on the Harvest Festival, children whose families have gone out to work must come back to celebrate the festival. Married women will also come back with their sons-in-law and children to celebrate the festival. Especially if there are elderly people at home, the children will have to come back to celebrate the festival. Villagers also like to bring friends back to celebrate the festival. Whichever family comes back with the most people and has more friends comes proves that the family is the most united, harmonious and popular.

Which ethnic group’s festival is the Harvest Festival

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The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Reunion Festival for the Han people, and it is also called the Harvest Festival for the She people. Every household of the She people makes glutinous rice cakes to celebrate the harvest and worship their ancestors on this day. After the founding of New China, under the influence of the Han people, most She people also ate and gave mooncakes like the local Han people. Some elders send mooncakes to younger ones, and sons and sons-in-law send cakes, noodles, meat, etc. to their parents (parents-in-law).