The origin, legends, customs and ancient poems of Mid-Autumn Festival! ! Hurry up! !

The general view in academic circles is that the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. However, from the early Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, although there are many records about Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations, such as "the prince and grandson, the rich man's giant room, must climb the dangerous building, play in the porch, or climb the pavilion, attend as nonvoting delegates, make sonorous instruments and drink."

Another example is "Traveling by boat along the lake" and "Singing hand in hand on Su Causeway" in Tomita Rucheng's Notes on Traveling to the West Lake. The Mid-Autumn Festival described in these descriptions is more like an entertainment and leisure activity for dignitaries and citizens than a traditional folk festival.

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About the origin of Mid-Autumn Festival, there are two angles, one is official and the other is folk. Officially, the Mid-Autumn Festival became a national holiday only after the Revolution of 1911.

After the Revolution of 1911, the government of the Republic of China changed the lunar calendar to the Gregorian calendar, and adjusted the traditional festivals, moving the traditional first day of the lunar new year (that is, the first day of the first month, now the Spring Festival) to the first day of the Gregorian calendar as New Year's Day. Then four festivals, namely, Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, were formulated in turn, that is, the original New Year's Day on the first day of the first month was renamed the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival was renamed the Summer Festival, the August 15th was renamed the Autumn Festival, and the winter solstice was renamed the Winter Festival.

In other words, since the Republic of China, the Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the autumn festival, has become a national holiday. From the perspective of folklore, although the Mid-Autumn Festival is not as long and mature as other festivals, it has distinctive local characteristics and obvious rituals and beliefs.

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