In China, the Mid-Autumn Festival is an important festival second only to the Spring Festival. This is because people realized the importance of festivals in the development of farming culture, so there was the custom of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. The ancients found that the moon is very bright from the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it developed from offering sacrifices to the moon and worshiping the moon to enjoying the moon after the first century AD, but it was not fixed on which day. The Mid-Autumn Festival took shape in the 8th century, and the 15th of August was in the middle of autumn, so it was called the Mid-Autumn Festival. At this time is the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus, people face the world of osmanthus, think of osmanthus, so in the appreciation of the moon, the moon worship also added the custom of appreciation of osmanthus. The Mid-Autumn Festival custom of eating moon cakes appeared in the 9 th century at the latest.
intended to explain?
The reason why the ancients attached importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival.