The August 15th day of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China, it is one of the important reunion festivals for the Chinese. In ancient China, there was a custom of "Autumn moon worship". Moon worship, that is, worship the moon god. Till the Zhou Dynasty, there will hold to celebrate the cold and the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival night; the pre-Qin had a moon god sacrifice activity, called "night light" or "Xiyue". The Mid-Autumn Festival Ceremony is an ancient ritual of rituals, expressing a beautiful wish for people to pray for the moon to bless the world.
The moon worship originated from the ancient people, and the moon was later personalized as the moon of the celestial body and became the moon god. In the past, the royal called the moon god to be the god of the night, and after the rise of Taoism, the moon god was called the Taiyin star. The folks think that moon is a woman, and that she is a monk or a moon sister.
When it was later, the reward of the moon was more important than the sacrifice of the moon, and the solemn sacrifice became a pleasure. The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is extremely prosperous in the Tang Dynasty. Many poets have the poems of the moon in the famous articles. And worship moon activities are large in Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty.
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