The Mid-Autumn festival, also known as the festival of moon worship, moonlight festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival.
（中秋節，又稱祭月節、月光誕、月夕、秋節、仲秋節、拜月節、月娘節、月亮節、團圓節等，是中國民間的傳統節日。）
The Mid-Autumn festival originated from the worship of heaven, from the ancient times qiu xi festival evolved from the month.
（中秋節源自天象崇拜，由上古時代秋夕祭月演變而來。）
The first "festival" festival is in the ganzhi calendar 24 solar terms "autumnal equinox" day.
（最初“祭月節”的節期是在幹支歷二十四節氣“秋分”這天。）
Later, it was moved to the 15th day of the 8th month of the summer calendar (lunar calendar).
（後來才調至夏歷（農歷）八月十五日，也有些地方將中秋節定在夏歷八月十六日。）
Mid-Autumn festival since ancient times, there has been a festival, the moon, eating moon cakes and other folk customs, spread to today, enduring.
（中秋節自古便有祭月、賞月、吃月餅、玩花燈、賞桂花、飲桂花酒等民俗，流傳至今，經久不息。）
擴展資料
中秋節傳統活動：
1、祭月（拜月）
祭月，在我國是壹種十分古老的習俗，實際上是古人對“月神”的壹種崇拜活動。在古代有“秋暮夕月”的習俗。
2、燃燈
中秋之夜，有燃燈以助月色的風俗。如今湖廣壹帶仍有用瓦片疊塔於塔上燃燈的節俗。江南壹帶則有制燈船的節俗。近代中秋燃燈之俗更盛。
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