Mid-Autumn Festival Meaning: Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar every year. August is the second month of autumn, ancient times called mid-autumn, because it is in the middle of autumn and August, so the folk called Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Half, Moon Night, Moon Festival, and because this day the moon is full of round, symbolizing reunion, also known as Reunion Festival.
中秋节含义：中秋节，中国传统节日，为每年农历八月十五。八月为秋季的第二个月，古时称为仲秋，因处于秋季之中和八月之中，故民间称为中秋，又称秋夕、八月节、八月半、月夕、月节，又因为这一天月亮满圆，象征团圆，又称为团圆节。
Mid-Autumn Festival status: Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and known as China's four traditional festivals. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially the local Chinese and overseas Chinese; The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in the early Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty period already had the Mid-Autumn Festival activities, and the Song Dynasty period is China's Mid-Autumn Festival activities are more popular period, and in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the status of the Mid-Autumn Festival has been no different from the status of the Spring Festival, influenced by Chinese culture, some areas of East Asia and Southeast Asia will also have the Mid-Autumn Festival, in the main gathering area of Chinese and overseas Chinese, the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere will be more obvious.
中秋节地位：中秋节与春节、清明节、端午节并称为中国四大传统节日。受中华文化的影响，中秋节也是东亚和东南亚一些国家尤其是当地的华人华侨的传统节日；中秋节最早起源于初唐时期,唐朝时期已经有了中秋节活动,而宋朝时期是我国中秋节活动比较盛行的时期,而在明清时期,中秋节的地位已经与春节的地位没有什么区别了,受到了中华文化的影响,东亚和东南亚的某些地区也会过中秋节,在华人华侨的主要聚集区,中秋节的气息会更加明显。
Mid-Autumn Festival Customs:
Moon festival, lantern viewing, moon viewing, moon chasing, tide watching, puzzle guessing, eating moon cakes, viewing osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, erecting Mid-Autumn Festival, playing with Lu Zi, tying lanterns, playing with flower lanterns, burning incense, worshiping ancestors, dancing fire dragons, listening to incense, burning towers, Mid-Autumn Festival feasts, playing rabbits.
中秋节习俗：
祭月、燃灯、赏月、追月、观潮、猜谜、吃月饼、赏桂花、饮桂花酒、竖中秋、耍禄仔、扎灯笼、玩花灯、烧斗香、拜祖先、舞火龙、听香、烧塔、中秋宴俗、玩兔爷。
