The main ceremony of the Mid-Autumn Festival in Zezhou County is to worship the moon and Yue Bai. What do locals call it to worship?

The custom of Zezhou Mid-Autumn Festival spread in the area of Jue Mountain in Zezhou County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, and then spread to the Central Plains areas such as Sanjin, Northwest Henan and South Hebei. The main ceremonies of Zezhou Mid-Autumn Festival are Yue Bai and Yue Bai, and they are called "Moon Mother-in-law" by local people.

Sacrificing the moon has a long history. In ancient China, some ancient people offered sacrifices to the Moon God to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, which gradually became a custom. The Han Dynasty was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China, and cultural exchanges spread together.

The origin of sacrificing the moon

Mid-Autumn Festival is a relic of ancient celestial worship-the custom of worshipping the moon. At the autumnal equinox, it is an ancient "Moon Festival". Sacrificing to the moon is a very old custom in China. In fact, it is a ritual activity of the ancients in some places in ancient China to "Moon God".

Mid-Autumn Festival comes from the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. In traditional culture, the moon and the sun are the same, and these two alternate celestial bodies become the objects of ancestor worship. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the ancient people's sacrifice to the moon, which is the legacy and derivative of China people's custom of offering sacrifices to the moon.