Ancient emperors had the social system of sacrificing the sun in spring and the moon in fall, and folk families also had the wind of sacrificing the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Moon worship is the ancients of the "moon god" a worship activities, after the Song Dynasty began to popularize, as for the specific ceremony, generally to the evening of the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, people in the home or outdoors on the "moon god" tablets, and then put a good melon and fruits! Pears and peaches, moon cakes and other offerings, and then bow to worship, pray for blessings.
Men generally hope to get good grades in the imperial examinations, while women hope to have a beautiful face. As the custom evolved, after the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was the saying "men don't worship the moon, women don't worship the stove". The answer is for reference only, please do not be blindly superstitious.