The Mid-Autumn Festival handwritten newspaper is on the third day.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of offering sacrifices to the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins.
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Offering sacrifices to the moon is a very old custom in China, and it is a kind of ritual activity of ancient people in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox among the 24 solar terms is an ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional "Autumn Equinox Sacrificing the Moon". In ancient farming society, the ancients believed that the movement of the moon had a great relationship with agricultural production and seasonal changes, so offering sacrifices to the moon became an important sacrificial activity. As one of the important customs of folk festivals, offering sacrifices to the moon has gradually evolved into activities such as appreciating and praising the moon.
Mid-Autumn Festival is popular in Han Dynasty, which is a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges between different places spread together. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the documents of the Han Dynasty and was written in Zhou Li of the Han Dynasty (handed down from Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). According to legend, in the pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "Mid-Autumn Festival to welcome the cold night", "Giving good clothes in the Mid-Autumn Festival" and "Moon at the Autumn Equinox (Yue Bai)". According to records, during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn in the Han Dynasty, there were activities of respecting the elderly and giving coarse cakes. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Before the Jin Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival was not popular in northern China.
In the Tang Dynasty, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in northern China. In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival became an officially recognized national festival. The Book of Emperor Taizong recorded the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in Chang 'an area in Tang Dynasty. Many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. The Mid-Autumn Festival is full of romance by combining fairy tales such as the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, Wu Gang's felling of laurel, Jade Rabbit smashing medicine, Yang Guifei's changing into the moon god and Tang Dynasty's visiting the moon palace, and the wind of playing the moon can only flourish. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.