Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Reunion Festival, so what is its origin?

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, which can also be called the Reunion Festival. This is a festival where relatives traveling abroad get together to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. Let's talk about the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival.

In fact, there are many origins of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China, but the word Mid-Autumn Festival first appeared in the book The Book of Rites and the Moon Order: "Mid-autumn moon nurtures aging and eats porridge." Mid-Autumn Festival, and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most common and well-known story-the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.

According to myths and legends, Chang 'e ate the fairy medicine given to her offspring by the Queen Mother for a compelling reason, and flew away from the world to become a fairy on the moon. Future generations can't help but look at the moon on the ground and miss their wives. Later, he found that the moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month was particularly round and bright, so he sent people to put Chang 'e's favorite food in the garden and sacrificed Chang 'e in the moon palace, so that people could learn from her descendants after learning the story of Chang 'e's flying fairy.

The ancients often used the full moon as a symbol of reunion and the lack of the moon as a symbol of sadness. People often pin their emotions on the moon. The ancients believed that the round and bright moon was a good omen, and the lack of the moon was not a good phenomenon. The moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month is round and bright, so people also like to call the Mid-Autumn Festival "Reunion Festival". Now the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming. I hope all my friends can have a wonderful Mid-Autumn Festival, and friends and relatives will enjoy the moon together and have fun together.