What is the significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month? Mid-Autumn Festival Taboos

What is the significance of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month?

The custom of moon-viewing on Mid-Autumn Festival was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and many famous poems by poets contain verses about the moon. By the Song Dynasty, the custom of appreciating the moon on Mid-Autumn Festival became more popular. On this day, "the rich families decorated their pavilions and terraces, while the common people vied to occupy restaurants to enjoy the moon." During the Ming and Qing dynasties, moon-worship and moon-appreciation activities among the court and the public were even more large-scale, and many ancient monuments such as "Moon-Worship Altars", "Moon-Worship Pavilions" and "Moon-Viewing Towers" still remain throughout China. The literati and scholars had a special fondness for moon-appreciating. They would either climb up towers to admire the moon or go boating to admire the moon, drink wine and compose poems, leaving behind many popular masterpieces that will last forever.
——Why are all the hosts in various places now women? This is related to the Chinese traditional positioning of the moon as yin. The sun is yang and the moon is yin, men are yang and women are yin. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, moon worship has gradually been presided over by women. But the saying that "men don't worship the moon" is extremely stupid and absurd. The fact that women are the hosts does not mean that men cannot worship the moon. It is just that according to custom, women are the hosts and take priority. This is also a rare custom that respects women and has women as the host.

There is a folk saying that when you go out to play with your family during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you must wear red underwear and carry a red string with you. You can tie the red string around your wrist, with men on the left and women on the right.

Mid-Autumn Festival Taboos