When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? Is the moon the roundest during the Mid-Autumn Festival?

When is the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? Is the moon the roundest during the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Introduction: Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals. So when is Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019? Is the moon the roundest during Mid-Autumn Festival? As the eighth month of the lunar calendar arrives, the feeling of autumn becomes stronger. It sneaks in on a foggy dawn and disappears in the hot afternoon. What will the eighth month of the lunar calendar be like in 2019? Please visit Mr. Shui Mo's website for a more detailed introduction.

When is Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019?

2019 Mid-Autumn Festival Dates:
Friday, September 13, 2019 (August 15, Year of the Pig, 31 days away from the 2019 Mid-Autumn Festival)

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.

Is the moon the roundest during Mid-Autumn Festival?

From an astronomical perspective, the moon is not necessarily exceptionally bright only during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Because the moon is bright because it reflects sunlight, the intensity of the moonlight as seen from the earth is related to both the size of the reflective surface of the moon as seen from the earth, as well as the distance of the moon from the earth and the distance of the moon from the sun.
When the moon's surface reflecting sunlight is the largest and closest to a perfect circle, the moonlight should be the brightest.
However, the moon's orbit around the earth is elliptical, and the perigee is not necessarily on the 15th. The beginning of the lunar calendar is definitely the "new moon", and the "full moon" depends on the movement of the moon, and usually occurs on the 15th, 16th, or even 17th of the lunar calendar.

When was Mid-Autumn Festival established as a legal holiday?

Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday by the State Council.
The country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, the Mid-Autumn Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
The General Office of the State Council has officially announced the holiday arrangements for some holidays in 2015. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a holiday only, forming a normal weekend together with the previous Saturday. The three-day short holiday obtained through adjustment of holidays in previous years has been cancelled.

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