Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival, is a popular lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and Vietnamese people. Asone of the few most important holidays in China, it falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month.
There are many tales about Mid-autumn Festival, among which Chang’e Flying to Moon is the most popular one. In order to protect Hou Yi (his husband)’s pill, Chang’e swallowed the pills up in the scuffle and as result flew to the moon. From then on, Hou Yi would look for Chang’e with cakes when the moon was round.
A beautiful Chang’e Lantern on the river of Longtan Park, Beijing
In Beijing, worship Rabbit Ye is very popular on Mid-autumn Day
Mid-Autumn Festival is also a festival for family reunion. Most people will go home on Mid-Autumn holiday
Since ancient times, Chinese emperors offered sacrifices to the sun in the spring and the moon in autumn. Sacrifice has been replaced by a simple appreciation of the moon and eating moon cakes or other delicious food today.
The moon looks extremely round, big and bright on the 15th day of each lunar month. A young couple was enjoying the moon alongside the river
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, all family members or friends meet outside, putting food on tables and looking up at the sky while talking about life. How splendid a moment it is!
The moon cake is a kind of cookie with various fillings, including nuts, sugar, sesame, ham, egg yolk, etc
Besides moon cakes, crabs are also very popular in Mid-autumn festival
Welcome to China and explore the traditional folk customs of the interesting festival – Mid-autumn Festival!