There is a custom of dragon dancing every Mid-Autumn Festival, which means good luck and good health every year.
The dragon is the totem symbol of the Chinese nation. Dragon dance activities based on dragon worship are commonly found in various festival celebrations, life rituals, and faith ceremonies. However, the Mid-Autumn dragon dance is not a traditional dance in the general sense. It is an annual custom that exaggerates the atmosphere and adds to the celebration, as well as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival dragon dance, etc. It has specific cultural connotations and is an integral part of the entire Mid-Autumn Festival traditional festival customs and cultural genealogy.
Introduction:
The origin of my country's Mid-Autumn Festival can be traced back to the ancestors' worship of the heaven, earth, sun and moon. The "Book of Rites" records the tradition of official worship of the moon at the autumnal equinox. In the Tang Dynasty, literati enjoyed admiring the moon and reciting poems on the full moon night during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and this became a custom. When people in the Song Dynasty admired the moon, they were more concerned about the time and hurt things. They used the waxing and waning of the moon to symbolize the impermanence of the world. The festival significance of family reunion during the Mid-Autumn Festival gradually formed a common consciousness in civil society. August 15th was a legal holiday at that time. .
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival became increasingly rich in festivals and customs, becoming a major festival with the theme of reunion and harvest, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Today's Mid-Autumn Festival has been widely spread in China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries. It is one of the most important annual festivals in the East Asian cultural circle and a festival that is common to Chinese and overseas Chinese around the world.