What is the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival?

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The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar. The festival in 2024 falls on September 17. The Post explains the traditions and stories behind the second biggest holiday in China.
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@zhengyunli800 4 ай бұрын

Some foreign people asked me if the mid-autumn fesitival is for worship of the moon. No, mid-autumn fesitival has nothing to do with reiligon and worship. People just admire the beauty of the moon at that night. The full round shape of the moon means reunion of the family.

@Bingbinbongbong 4 ай бұрын

Some rural villages have a tradition of ”拜月” or worshipping the moon where they make offerings of incense and moon cakes to the moon goddess. But I guess that isn’t really common anymore.

@zhengyunli800 4 ай бұрын

@@Bingbinbongbong Yeah, I know it but I don't think that is common across China.

@swicheroo1 4 ай бұрын

The festival often has religious significance, insofar as rituals from Buddhism and Animism are often performed at the family altar. This is especially true among diasporic populations who left--and maintained the religious significance of the event...

@zhengyunli800 4 ай бұрын

@@swicheroo1 They are rare, not a common practice in China. Mid autumn featival is never religious, just like other traditional festivals such as spring festival, throughout Chinese history.

@rawonions8827 4 ай бұрын

@@zhengyunli800 Yep, I agree. Chinese people are often not as religious as they are superstitious (coming from a Chinese person lol). In my experience, most festivals are an excuse to go and dine with family, as family bonds are quite significant to our culture.

@wangmei1059 4 ай бұрын

大家中秋安康❤

@AlbinoPeafowl 4 ай бұрын

My birthday is tomorrow, on the 16th! Two celebrations for me!

@lyhthegreat 4 ай бұрын

i thought the actual day is on the 17th?

@IvyJ-b9k 4 ай бұрын

Happy birthday to you ! Happy mid-autumn festival to all the Chinese!

@MeiMei-ez3ib 4 ай бұрын

My birthday always falls on Chinese new year 😊❤

@lyhthegreat 4 ай бұрын

@@MeiMei-ez3ib it's impossible with the lunar calendar always changing dates every year

@Jesus-is-love4ever 4 ай бұрын

How I’d love to see a mid autumn festival in person at least once

@Lilib130 4 ай бұрын

Me too.

@SwartzBill 4 ай бұрын

happy mid autumn festival

@Lilib130 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful and well explained! Thanks!

@hokeatseng4094 4 ай бұрын

Like the Hanfu clothing .....Bold 💯✍️⭐

@qiangli8839 4 ай бұрын

Origin of Mid-Autumn Festival: Ancient China was an agricultural society. There was a bumper harvest around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and people looked for an excuse to celebrate the harvest and share food.

@gigirys9948 4 ай бұрын

Many blessings and prosperity health 🙏🏻✨🙏🏻

@anuseth7613 4 ай бұрын

Happy Moon Festival China 😊😊

@kylechau69 4 ай бұрын

happy mid autumn

@daledupont3772 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information

@schivver 4 ай бұрын

In my country India 🇮🇳 we have cow dung festival 😊

@swicheroo1 4 ай бұрын

I was in your country for 6 months. I saw the cow dung festival. I mentioned this to one of my Indian colleagues and she got really mad. "We don't have that in India."

@darkallegiance666 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@ronzac55 4 ай бұрын

My city chinatown also prepares for mid autumn festival. It looks very pretty

@fredrikbergquist5734 4 ай бұрын

So beautiful!❤

@Javy_Valen_Tain 4 ай бұрын

Id love to be in Hongkong and celebratd 😊

@dimsimbogan. 4 ай бұрын

In South East Asia, natives adopt Chinese ways of celebrating their festivities. For instance firecrackers, red packets filled with money, culinary cuisines etc. Proof of the superiority of Chinese culture and tradition

@neilmanx1001 4 ай бұрын

Proof of BS. Many countries around the world use firecrackers for their festivals and India uses the most on a very large scale during Diwali festival and other festivals, and not just firecrackers but many different kinds of crackers and bombs.

@benishan3 4 ай бұрын

@@neilmanx1001 Yes many uses firecrackers, but in Southeast Asia, it's Chinese influenced. Also, red packet with money as gift and Chinese influenced cuisine...He's correct but a little boastful in his choice of words

@hastingz9948 4 ай бұрын

@@neilmanx1001Genuine firecrackers use black powder, which is a Chinese invention, but Indian firecrackers use curry, the two are not the same, genuine vs non genuine.

@zhyi281008963 4 ай бұрын

@neilmanx1001 You forgot that gunpowder and firecrackers were all invented in China!

@neilmanx1001 4 ай бұрын

@@hastingz9948 You mean genuine firecrackers use gutter oil and dog meat? No wonder they fizzle out so quick little dumpling wumao!

@Avroarra 4 ай бұрын

Moon breathing 🌙

@matteolorenzobunag4314 4 ай бұрын

中秋快樂

@YuriHigh 4 ай бұрын

Thank u

@kylechau69 4 ай бұрын

nice!

@khemrajrairaikirat4230 4 ай бұрын

🙏 ♥

@bloedekuh 4 ай бұрын

what's with the japanese music around 1:42 xD

@TempleofBrendaSong 4 ай бұрын

Wish you and your family a happy Mid-Autumn Festival 祝你和你的家人中秋快乐 Zhù nǐ hé nǐ de jiā rén zhōng qiū kuài lè 🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮🥮

@ayushsatose6338 4 ай бұрын

🇮🇳🫂🇨🇳 long live China

@measbabadoo 4 ай бұрын

❤

@dieterhoeger7007 4 ай бұрын

Thank's

@boybawang1981 4 ай бұрын

And the Moon Cake Syndicate!! They have a strangle hold...

@taiwanstillisntacountry 4 ай бұрын

Is the cow-fertilizer festival, the biggest festival of little 3rd-brotha?

@WayneJohnson98888 4 ай бұрын

Moon cakes sales go skyfall this year in mainland.

@KinLee919 4 ай бұрын

nobody saying it's Skyfall, mooncake sales is down, compare to last year, but it's not a Skyfall. main reason is mooncake is a traditional festival food, and not really a morden taste. in other words, it taste bad.

@vboyz21 4 ай бұрын

*17th of September. Please don't yankify the date out of the usa ..

@DanBurgaud 4 ай бұрын

I was married on Mid-Autumn 2002.

@hastingz9948 4 ай бұрын

congrat and happy anniversary,now,slice of moon cake🥮,pls

@soothingmoments2139 4 ай бұрын

Elixir is pronounced as..uh lick sir

@AhmetTekin101 4 ай бұрын

Mid-Autumn festival is a Vietnamese 🇻🇳 culture. - China "borrowed" it and called it "Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival".

@forrestshawn3920 4 ай бұрын

no, the history of the festival dates back over 3,000 years in Ancient China, nothing to do with Vietnam, even the country name "Vietnam" (越南) originated from Chinese.

@zhengzhenggu9474 4 ай бұрын

Great, first Korean, now Vietnamese 😂

@hastingz9948 4 ай бұрын

who the F is Vietnam?🤔

@zhyi281008963 4 ай бұрын

When the Mid-Autumn Festival was born, Vietnam did not exist as a country! And the country Vietnam was named after ancient China!

@xingchen19willwork 4 ай бұрын

nah uh I don't see Vietnam existing millennia ago

@fungj4126 4 ай бұрын

These moon cakes are wasting money

@Bennn3245 4 ай бұрын

How so?

@mikeyL-os5cf 4 ай бұрын

啊？

@lutherlaosi5294 4 ай бұрын

then don`t buy it, simple

@schivver 4 ай бұрын

@@fungj4126 you are too poor to afford food. Just eat cow dung as usual

@ZakiHaider-y9o 4 ай бұрын

@@fungj4126 agreed . We all know india likes cow 💩 cakes

@SecundaXV 4 ай бұрын

Where's the part where Mao comes in and tries to get rid of this?

@DemocracyIsBaal 4 ай бұрын

are you part of the CIA 1.4 billion dollars campaign to demonise China?

@taiwanstillisntacountry 4 ай бұрын

He did it in 1962

@Rav01508 4 ай бұрын

@@taiwanstillisntacountrysource?

@harleyking88 4 ай бұрын

Like when Christmas was banished in Boston in 1659? 🙄

@あきらほしの 4 ай бұрын

cattle class people

@grouchypatch9185 4 ай бұрын

👆👆👆 Bow-legged pirate class.

@anglo-saxonconnor817 4 ай бұрын

Its nothing important actually. The ancient chinese pay homage to the moon based on two legends. One is a lady sacrificed herself and stop a tyrant from being immortal to end his ambitions. The second legend is about how rebels use notes hidden in cakes to spread message to rebel on a full moon night to end tryanny rule. Both are now distant memories far removed from today people already. The festival have also become nothing more than a commercial opportunity to sell you unhealthy overpriced cakes by now. You have the choice whether you want to celebrate it or not. It depends on yourselves on what exactly do you want to celebrate on this day for what thats all. Some love the fun so they just spend mindlessly. Oghers cant find a reason to so its just another day to people that's all.

@TonyJack74 4 ай бұрын

It is important actually

@anglo-saxonconnor817 4 ай бұрын

How is it important? Elaborate.

@Koala-jj7go 4 ай бұрын

Imagine celebrating a night light

@hehe-mq2bk 4 ай бұрын

it is important bc families gather together and celebrate it like Christmas. it's also a very beautiful holiday 😍😁😍

@hehe-mq2bk 4 ай бұрын

@@anglo-saxonconnor817 you would not understand it's importance since you are an Anglo-Saxon and not East Asian.

@Hkchinese888 4 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, ppl keep saving money and want to flee the zh!t place.

@misterbig9025. 4 ай бұрын

you should see the mile-long lines outside the us consulate 😂

@aldenteh9412 4 ай бұрын

@@misterbig9025.Well said 👏

@taiwanstillisntacountry 4 ай бұрын

We have 50.000 little-D-boi's in HK SAR of the PRC. We do you little-D-boi's come to China?

@BensonLin-s7p 4 ай бұрын

That's North Korea buddy

@darth.severuss 4 ай бұрын

@@Hkchinese888 Diu li lo mo

@BingoBunzo 4 ай бұрын

first ez

@neilmanx1001 4 ай бұрын

do they export tofu moon cakes to Walmart ?

@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu 4 ай бұрын

China is the most visited country in the world. Many Americans, British, and Japanese live in China. Tofu is the best food in the world

@neilmanx1001 4 ай бұрын

@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu France is the most visited country in the world followed by Spain and USA. Tofu is NOT the best food in the world unless you are a chinese person ofcourse. I detest its texture, particularly the silky slimy one and ofcourse its got no taste at all.