Can we release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019 in the Gregorian calendar?

Can we release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019 in the Gregorian calendar?
Introduction: The Mid-Autumn Festival has many traditional customs, and releasing Kongming lanterns is one of them. So, can we release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? What day is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019 in the Gregorian calendar? 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 2019.

Can we release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019?

Whether or not you can release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival depends on the relevant regulations in different places. In some places, you can release Kongming lanterns, but in some places you cannot.
However, it is best not to release Kongming lanterns during the Mid-Autumn Festival as they can easily cause fires and pose a great risk.
Most Kongming lanterns use burning blocks made of special materials as fuel. The flame temperature can reach up to 300℃ after being launched into the air. The materials used to make Kongming lanterns are all flammable. Kongming lanterns use open flames to heat the air to generate power for launch. They are light in weight and are easy to fall when encountering gusts of wind or colliding with tall buildings. If they are released at will, once they fall into places with more combustible materials such as gas stations, grasslands, forests, and garbage dumps, they can easily cause fires.
It is understood that in recent years, fire accidents caused by the setting off of Kongming lanterns have attracted the attention of local governments in my country, and they have issued relevant regulations "banning the setting off of Kongming lanterns".

What day is Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019 in the Gregorian calendar?

Lunar calendar 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival date:
Friday, September 13, 2019 (August 15, Year of the Pig, 22 days until the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar 2019)

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early Tang Dynasty, was popular in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of China's traditional festivals as famous as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially for local Chinese and overseas Chinese. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine. These customs have been passed down to this day and have lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival, with the roundness of the moon symbolizing family reunion, is a way to express longing for hometown and loved ones, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. It has become a rich and precious cultural heritage. The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as one of China's four major traditional festivals, along with the Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival and the Tomb-Sweeping Day.

What is the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival?

August 15th is the middle of the three autumns, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the temperature is cool but not cold, the sky is high and the air is fresh, and the moon is bright in the sky. It is the best time to enjoy the moon. People love to enjoy the moon at this time. Since the Tang Dynasty, it has gradually evolved into a festival, and this is the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Song Dynasty, people ate fruits and round cakes on the Mid-Autumn Night. These round cakes were the origin of moon cakes. Su Dongpo has a poem that goes "the small cakes are like chewing the moon". During the Southern Song Dynasty, on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Jiankang (now Nanjing) and Lin'an (now Hangzhou) competed in releasing water lanterns. The swaying candles and the bright moon were a particularly spectacular sight (later, Nanjing moved the release of water lanterns to July 15th, which was called "Zhongyuan Water Lantern Festival").
According to legend, during the Yuan Dynasty, the vast majority of people in the Central Plains were unwilling to endure the cruel rule of the Mongols and rose up in rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty. Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to unite the resistance forces, but the Yuan soldiers' searches were so strict that he had no way of passing on information. So Liu Bowen came up with a plan and ordered Wang Zhaoguang to make cakes and hide a note with the words "Revolt on the night of August 15th" inside the cakes. Then send people to the rebel forces in various places to inform them to respond to the uprising on the night of August 15th.
In the first year of the Hongwu reign of the Ming Dynasty (1368 AD), Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor in Yingtian Prefecture (now Nanjing). On the second day of August, Xu Da captured Yuan Dadu. When the news came, Zhu Yuanzhang was so happy that he immediately issued an oral order, allowing all soldiers and civilians to celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival together. He also rewarded his ministers with "moon cakes", which were used to secretly convey information when he started the uprising. Since then, the production of moon cakes has become more and more refined, with more varieties, and the larger ones are as big as round plates, becoming a good gift. That night in Nanjing, people painted pictures of the Moon Palace, displayed fresh fruits and moon cakes, lit incense sticks, told stories of "Chang'e Flying to the Moon", "Wu Gang Cutting the Osmanthus Tree", "Jade Rabbit Pounding Medicine", competed in releasing water lanterns, and so on. It was very lively. Since then, the Mid-Autumn Festival night has been very lively both in the south and the north. People in the north eat moon cakes and fruits and buy rabbit dolls for their children to play with on this day. "Rabbit God" can be divided into paper painting, cloth binding and clay sculpture. It has a human body and a rabbit head, with colorful clothes. It can be sitting or standing, pounding a pestle, or riding a beast and holding a flag. It is very unique.
The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 is also known as the August Festival in the south of the Yangtze River. The origin and prosperity of the August Festival are related to Nanjing. As a seasonal festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed relatively late, but the act of enjoying the moon has a long history. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "Enjoying the Moon at Niuzhu" in Nanjing is the most influential moon-appreciating story that has been passed down to this day. It has even evolved into the Mid-Autumn Festival that has been celebrated happily by the general public for thousands of years.

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