Notice of Beijing dosco on holiday arrangement of Mid Autumn Festival 2019

From September 13 to September 15, the Mid Autumn Festival will be closed for three consecutive days with weekends.

 

 

The Mid Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the autumn festival, the Mid Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August meeting, the moon chasing Festival, the moon playing Festival, the moon worship Festival, the daughter's day or the reunion festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups and Chinese cultural circles in China, when it is on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; because it is exactly half of the third autumn, it is also called the Mid Autumn Festival in some places.

 

The mid autumn festival began in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the time of Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the Chinese traditional festivals with the same name as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially for the local overseas Chinese. Since 2008, the Mid Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. On May 20, 2006, the State Council was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

 

Since ancient times, the Mid Autumn Festival has the customs of offering sacrifices to the moon, appreciating the moon, worshiping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine and so on. It has been passed on for a long time. The Mid Autumn Festival symbolizes the reunion of people with the full moon. It is a cultural heritage with rich and colorful features. It is a place for people to miss their hometown and their relatives, and pray for a good harvest and happiness. The Mid Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Qingming Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China.