Mid Autumn Festival Introduction
The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is China’s Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) - it is so named because it falls in the middle of autumn. This year, that’s today.
The moon is roundest and brightest at this time, and one look at the round, full moon on Mid Autumn Festival and people across all of China immediately want to sit down and eat with their closest family and friends, miss their hometowns, and get deluged by memories. Because of the tendency to sit around a round table with family and friends, Mid Autumn Festival is also called 团圆节 (Roughly ‘Gathering Holiday’). And there is no denying that Mid Autumn festival is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays.
The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is China’s Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节) - it is so named because it falls in the middle of autumn. This year, that’s today.
The moon is roundest and brightest at this time, and one look at the round, full moon on Mid Autumn Festival and people across all of China immediately want to sit down and eat with their closest family and friends, miss their hometowns, and get deluged by memories. Because of the tendency to sit around a round table with family and friends, Mid Autumn Festival is also called 团圆节 (Roughly ‘Gathering Holiday’). And there is no denying that Mid Autumn festival is one of the most important traditional Chinese holidays.
3 comments:
I love this title,I also think Mid Autumn day is a very important day in my owntown I remember my family usually bring some food & moon-cake
to ate at outside where can saw the beautiful moon.
Yes. The Mid Autumn festival is a very important holiday in China. I also like it very much. In this day, I can see many cousins who I have not seen them for long time.
Mid Autumn Festival Day is very important thing for Chinese.That's meaningful and it has a long time of history in China. Even though not always at home of people,they would go home to reunite their family at that day.So we also call that day is Gathering Holiday. I missed every Mid-autumn Day when I was a child.
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