When is Mid-Autumn Festival this year? In which years does the Mid-Autumn Festival fall on October 1st?
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in my country. According to historical records, the word "Mid-Autumn" first appeared in the book "Zhou Li". In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was a record of "instructing the Shangshu to guard Niuxiao, and sailing on the river incognito on the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival" with his entourage. It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. "The Book of Tang: Taizong's Records" recorded "Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th". The popularity of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become as famous as New Year's Day and became one of the major festivals in my country. So, when is the Mid-Autumn Festival this year? In which years does the Mid-Autumn Festival fall on October 1st? With the arrival of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, autumn finally brings some coolness to everyone. On this day that symbolizes harvest, you are welcome to visit Shuimoxiansheng.com to obtain the wonderful fortune content for every day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in 2020.When is Mid-Autumn Festival this year?The date of the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar 2020 is August 15th in the Gengzi Year (Year of the Rat). Gregorian calendar: October 01, 2020, Thursday. The Mid-Autumn Festival developed on the basis of the moon worship during the Autumnal Equinox. According to historical records, China has had the custom of worshiping the moon on the Autumnal Equinox as early as ancient times. The autumnal equinox usually occurs around August 15th. Due to the leap month, the autumnal equinox can occur at any time from the beginning to the end of August. If the autumnal equinox occurs in the second half of the month, or even at the end of the month, the moon cannot be seen during the autumnal equinox moon worship, which loses its meaning. August 15th is the day when the moon is the roundest and brightest, so people gradually fixed the Autumnal Equinox moon worship activity on August 15th. The eighth month of the lunar calendar is the second month of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn. The fifteenth day of the eighth month is in the middle of Mid-Autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. The word Mid-Autumn first appeared in "The Book of Zhou": "During the day in mid-spring, people beat drums and play "Youya" to welcome the heat; on Mid-Autumn night, they do the same to welcome the cold." In the Zhou Dynasty, ceremonies to welcome the cold and worship the moon were held on every Mid-Autumn night. As to when exactly the Mid-Autumn Festival originated, it is now difficult to say clearly. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people already appreciated the moon, but it did not become a custom. Around the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival had become a festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival became popular during the Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival had become as famous as New Year's Day and Dragon Boat Festival, and became one of the major festivals of the Chinese nation.In which years does the Mid-Autumn Festival fall on October 1st?In recent years, National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival fell on the same day in 1982, 2001, 2020 and 2031. Judging from these years, National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival fell on the same day generally once every 19 years.Why 19 years? Generally speaking, the lunar calendar and the solar calendar overlap once every 19 years, with only a few years not being the case. This is mainly the result of the leap year in the lunar calendar. The number of days in each month in the lunar calendar is established based on the moon's movement cycle. In fact, the average number of days in a month is 29.5306 days. If multiplied by 12, there are only 354.3672 days in a year. The earth's revolution around the sun in one cycle (tropical year, solar year) is 365.2422 days. Therefore, the actual number of days in a lunar year is 10.875 days less than that in a solar year, which is almost 11 days, and 209 days less in 19 years. 209 days divided by 30 is 6.9666, which means that in 19 years, the lunar year is almost 7 months shorter than the solar year. In order to make the difference between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar not too big, these 7 months must be added. The Chinese lunar calendar is actually a typical lunisolar calendar - it is a combination of the lunar and solar calendars, and to make up for the seven months, people use the leap month method in the lunar calendar - seven leap months in nineteen years, that is, in the nineteen years of the lunar calendar, twelve are ordinary years, each with 12 months; plus seven leap years (the 3rd, fifth, eighth, 11th, fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth years), each with 13 months. In this way, the number of days in 19 solar years is almost equal to the number of days in 19 lunar years. Therefore, every time a birthday is 19 or a multiple of 19, there is a chance that the solar birthday and the lunar birthday will occur on the same day. Since the founding of New China, there have only been two occasions when two festivals were celebrated simultaneously. The several Mid-Autumn Festivals that did not conform to the 19-year pattern were all on October 2nd. The next 19-year period, 2020, conformed to the pattern, but the next time it occurred was in 2031. |
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