What is the date of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? What should we not do the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?
Introduction: Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the ancient traditional festivals. So what is the date of Mid-Autumn Festival in the Gregorian calendar? What should we not do the day before Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020? Autumn has truly arrived in the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Let’s go to Shuimoxiansheng.com to learn more about the eighth month of the lunar calendar in 2020!What day is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?The date of the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 is: Thursday, October 1, 2020 (August 15 in the Gengzi Year (Year of the Rat), 36 days away from the 2020 Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar). The 2020 Mid-Autumn Festival is on October 1 in the Gregorian calendar, which happens to be National Day!The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the ancient autumn evening moon worship. Moon worship has a long history. It is an activity of worshipping the "Moon God" by the ancient people in some places in ancient my country. The "Autumnal Equinox" of the 24 solar terms is the ancient "Moon Worship Festival". The Mid-Autumn Festival became popular in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchange and integration between the north and south of my country. The cultural exchanges among various regions led to the integration and spread of festival customs. The earliest existing written record of the word "Mid-Autumn" can be found in Han Dynasty documents. The "Zhou Li", which was written between the Han Dynasty (it is said to be written by Zhou Gongdan, but in fact it was written between the Han Dynasty), said that in the Pre-Qin period, there were activities such as "welcoming the cold on Mid-Autumn Night", "offering good furs on Mid-Autumn Festival" and "moon worship on the Autumnal Equinox." According to records, during the Han Dynasty, there was an activity of respecting and caring for the elderly by giving them xiongco bing (mass biscuits) during the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Beginning of Autumn. There are also written records of Mid-Autumn Festival moon-watching during the Jin Dynasty, but it was not very common. The Mid-Autumn Festival was not very popular in northern my country during the Jin Dynasty. What should you not do the day before Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020?Lunar calendar: August 14, 2020 Gregorian calendar: September 30, 2020, Wednesday, Libra - Today's good days: get married, build, travel, dig, litigate, break ground, start drilling, end mourning, bury, accept marriage, enter house, worship, pray for blessings, seek heirs, cancel migration, receive wealth, erect pillars, raise beams, receive livestock, and settle lawsuits, open business, build houses, and govern the way - Today's bad days: plant, dig canals, release water, seek medical treatment, take up office, build meridians and embankmentsBased on the above contents of the lunar calendar, we can know that things that should not be done the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2020 are [ planting, digging canals, releasing water, seeking medical treatment, taking up office, and building embankments on the meridians ]. Mid-Autumn Festival customs: lighting lanterns On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of lighting lanterns to help the moonlight. Nowadays, people in the Huguang area still have the custom of stacking tiles into a tower and lighting lanterns on the tower. In the Jiangnan area, there is a festival custom of making lantern boats. In modern times, the custom of lighting lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival has become more popular. Zhou Yunjin and He Xiangfei, both modern scholars, wrote in their article "Random Thoughts on Seasonal Events" that "Guangdong is the most prosperous in lighting lanterns. Ten days before the festival, each family will make lanterns with bamboo strips. They will make lanterns in the shape of fruits, birds, beasts, fish and insects, as well as words such as "Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival", and paste colored paper on them to paint various colors. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, candles are lit in the lanterns, tied to bamboo poles with ropes, and erected high on the eaves or terraces. Small lanterns are also used to build characters or various shapes and hung high in the house, commonly known as "tree Mid-Autumn Festival" or "vertical Mid-Autumn Festival". The lanterns hung by wealthy families could be several meters high, and the family members would gather under the lanterns to drink and have fun. Ordinary people would put up a flagpole and two lanterns, also to have fun. The city is full of lights, like a world of glass. The scale of the Mid-Autumn Festival lantern-lighting custom seems to be second only to the Lantern Festival. The Eight Characters are an important matchmaker in your life, revealing your marriage destiny and predicting your marital happiness! To calculate the direction of your personal marriage, you can click on the "Premium Calculation" below to predict your marriage in advance. 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