When is the Mid-Autumn Festival on 202 1?
On June 25th, 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the arrangement of some holidays in 2002 1, and it will be closed from September/KLOC-9 to 21on Mid-Autumn Festival, and it will last for * * 3 days and go to work on Saturday, September 18. The origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival is closely related to the moon, which is a relic of the custom of Yue Bai, an ancient astronomical phenomenon. In traditional culture, these two alternate celestial bodies, like the moon and the sun, have become the objects of ancestor worship.
The autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms is an ancient festival to worship the moon, and the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional autumnal equinox. According to textual research, the original Moon Festival was set at the autumnal equinox in the twenty-four solar terms of the Ganzhi calendar. However, due to the integration of calendars and the use of the lunar calendar in historical development, the Mid-Autumn Festival was later transferred from the autumnal equinox of the twenty-four solar terms to the fifteenth day of August in the summer calendar. Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins.
The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is the confluence of many customs and events, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Festival, Moon Appreciation and Moon Palace Legend. It originated in the pre-Qin Dynasty and finally settled in the Tang Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival is the autumnal equinox when ancient emperors worship the moon.
"Li Zhouguan Chunzong Bo Dian Rui" Zheng Xuan Note: The son of heaven is always divided into Asahi and Qiuyue. Pei Zhi's Biography of Filial Piety in Historical Records quoted Ying Shao as saying: The son of heaven is sunny in spring, and the moon is autumn, and he worships the sun outside the East Gate. Asahi is facing the DPRK, and the moon is facing the evening. Now the Moon Altar in Beijing, formerly known as the Moon Altar, is the place where the Ming and Qing emperors sacrificed the moon at the autumnal equinox. Because there is not necessarily a moon on the night of the autumnal equinox, and the moon is not necessarily round, it will spoil the scenery, so people gradually put the autumnal equinox festival on the Mid-Autumn Festival.