Is there a moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival?

No, offering sacrifices to the moon is a time-honored custom in China. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cakes and fruits are placed in the middle of the yard, and people can only eat when the moon "eats". ?

Ancient emperors had a social system of offering sacrifices to the moon in spring, and folks also had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Later, it was more important to enjoy the moon than to sacrifice it, and serious sacrifice turned into light entertainment.

The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and many poets wrote poems about the moon in their masterpieces. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, Yue Bai's court and folk activities to enjoy the moon were larger. So far, there are many historical sites in China, such as Yue Bai Altar, Moon Pavilion and Moon Tower.

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The sacrificial culture of the Chinese nation expresses three basic emotional orientations of "respecting heaven, respecting earth and loving people", and worships three kinds of gods: God, Earth God and Ghost.

Among the gods, there are three kinds of gods: God, Sun, Moon, Stars and Stars. The sun and the moon are one of the natural gods most worshipped by China's ancestors.

The emperor regards himself as the son of God, taking heaven as his father, the earth as his mother, the sun as his brother, the moon as his sister, and the son of heaven worships the sun and the moon, which is not only awe and blessing, but also showing the meaning of "filial piety" to all the subjects in the world, that is, offering sacrifices to heaven and earth to show filial piety.