What is the date of the solar calendar for the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? What should I do the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?
Date of Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020: June 65438+1October 0 1 day (August 15 in the Year of the Rat, 36 days before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020). The Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 is 65438+ 10/in the solar calendar, which also happens to be the National Day!
The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Sacrificing the moon has a long history, which is the ancient worship of the moon god in some places in ancient China. The autumnal equinox in 24 solar terms is an ancient festival to worship 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 existing written record of the word Mid-Autumn Festival was first found in the documents of the Han Dynasty, and it was written in Zhou Li between the Han Dynasty (handed down by Zhou Gongdan, actually written between the Han Dynasty). It is said that in the pre-Qin period, there were activities to welcome the cold on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, to provide good autumn clothes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and to set up the moon on the autumnal equinox (Yue Bai).
According to records, in the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting the elderly and sending coarse cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival or beginning of autumn. There are also written records about Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty, but it is not very common. Mid-Autumn Festival in Jin Dynasty was not very popular in northern China. What should I not do the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?
Lunar calendar: August 2020 14.
Gregorian calendar: Wednesday, September 30th, 2020, Libra.
Today is suitable:
Marriage, architecture and travel, groundbreaking words, litigation, ground breaking and drilling.
In addition to burial, it also entered the house to offer sacrifices, pray for blessings and seek heirs.
Resolving the lawsuit of settling livestock on the vertical pillar of immigrants gathering wealth
Open the market and build a house.
Today's taboo:
Planting, digging ditches, discharging water, seeking medical treatment, and building dikes for meridians.
Based on the above contents of the Yellow Calendar, it can be seen that the last thing to do the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 is to plant trees, dig canals for medical treatment and build dikes for meridians.
Mid-Autumn Festival custom: burning lights
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is the custom of burning lanterns to help the moon. Nowadays, there is still the custom of piling tiles on towers and burning lamps in Huguang area.
Jiangnan has the custom of making lantern boats. The custom of burning lanterns in modern Mid-Autumn Festival is more prosperous. Modern people Zhou Yunjin and He Wei said in the article "Talking about the Four Seasons": Guangdong has the most lanterns, and every household uses bamboo sticks to tie lanterns ten days before the festival. Fruit, birds and animals, fish and insects? Celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival? Such as words, paste color paper to draw all kinds of colors. The internal combustion candle of the Mid-Autumn Night Lantern is tied to a bamboo pole with a rope and stands high on the tile eaves or terrace, or built into a glyph or various shapes with small lamps and hung high in the house. Mid-Autumn Festival in the tree? Or? Vertical mid-autumn festival? .
Rich people can hang lights as high as tens of feet. Families gather under the lamp to enjoy drinking, and ordinary people erect a flagpole and two lanterns to enjoy themselves. The city is full of lights and glass. The custom of burning lanterns in Mid-Autumn Festival seems to be second only to Lantern Festival in scale.