When is Mid-Autumn Festival? What are the three days after Mid-Autumn Festival? The Mid-Autumn Festival is an important traditional festival for the Chinese people. It falls on August 15th every year. The weather gradually gets cooler in the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the autumn breeze brings a refreshing coolness, and the sweet-scented osmanthus fills the air. Every day is new. If you want to know more about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the lunar calendar in August, please come to Shuimoxiansheng.com to find out.When is Mid-Autumn Festival?The Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion, and 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. The roundness of the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion, and is a way to express longing for one’s hometown and loved ones, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. 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 word "Mid-Autumn" was first seen in "Zhou Li". According to the ancient Chinese calendar, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month falls in the middle of August in the autumn of the year, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". There are four seasons in a year, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. The second month of the three autumns is called Zhongqiu, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Zhongqiu".What are the three days after Mid-Autumn Festival?The Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. Three days after the Mid-Autumn Festival is the 18th day of the eighth lunar month. This day is the Tide Watching Festival.Tide Watching Festival, a folk festival. Popular in Hangzhou and Jiaxing areas of Zhejiang Province. Every year on the 18th day of the eighth lunar month, there is a high tide in the Qiantang River in Zhejiang Province. When the tide is high, the waves are overwhelming and the scene is very spectacular. This festival already existed during the Southern Song Dynasty. Hangzhou residents have been going to watch the tide since the 11th. On the 16th and 18th, people from all over the city come out. From Miaozitou to Liuhe Pagoda, all the buildings along the river are rented out as vantage points for watching the tide. Since the early Qing Dynasty, due to the change of river course, tide watching has been moved to Haining, Jiaxing. According to historical records, during the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a specially trained water master who performed "tide-riding" for the spectators during this festival. The Song Dynasty poet Pan Lang said: "The tide-rider stood in the tide, holding the red flag without getting it wet." Zhou Mi gave a more detailed and vivid description of this in his "Watching the Tide": "Hundreds of good swimmers, all with their hair untied and tattoos on their heads, holding ten large colorful flags, vying with each other to encourage each other, swimming upstream, appearing and disappearing in the whale-like waves, jumping in a hundred different ways, but without getting the tails of their flags wet. They boast of their abilities, and the rich and powerful compete to reward them with silver and other things." How about the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019?Lunar calendar: August 15, 2019Gregorian calendar: Friday, September 13, 2019, Virgo 【Today’s lunar calendar is suitable】 Nacai, marry, recruit a son-in-law, build a house, pray for blessings, open the market, accept wealth, offer sacrifices, pray for an heir, release, bury, take up a post, plant crops, accept livestock, fast and offer sacrifices, go to school, tailor clothes, pray for wealth, wear a hairpin [Today’s taboos in the almanac] Moving, moving into a new house, installing incense, litigation, raising beams, erecting pillars, installing beds, building, breaking ground, traveling, going out to seek medical advice A check of the almanac shows that there are more than 10 taboo items on the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2019, so this day is not an auspicious day. Fortunes in life can be good or bad, and calculating the direction of your fortunes in advance can help you plan ahead and make your life smoother and brighter. Do you want to know when your good luck will come? Then take a look at the [ Excellent Calculation ] below, and may you have peace and happiness in your life! |
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