The Mid-Autumn Festival has a long history, like other traditional festivals, is also slowly developed and formed, ancient emperors had the ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn, as early as in the book "Rites of Zhou", the word "Mid-Autumn" has been recorded.Also follow up later aristocrats and scholars, and the Mid-Autumn festival, bright and round again to the sky a bright moon, worship, their feelings, so this custom spread to folk, form a traditional activity, until the tang dynasty, customs and more people pay attention to the offering month, Mid-Autumn festival became fixed festivals, the tang emperor taizong's book, there are "August 15 Mid-Autumn festival" in the record,This festival was popular in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and New Year's Day has become one of the major festivals in China.
The legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival is very rich, Chang 'e fly to the moon, Wu Gang cut laurel, yutu pound medicine and other myths spread very widely.
Wish everybody happy mid-autumn festival and family gather together !