Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the... Wikipedia

• Also called:  Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival
• Observed by:  Chinese people
• Type:  Cultural, religious
• Significance:  To commemorate and celebrate the end of the autumn harvest
• Celebrations:  Lantern lighting, mooncake making and sharing, courtship and matchmaking, fireworks, family gathering, dragon dances, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, gift giving
• Observances:  Consumption of mooncakes and cassia wine
• Frequency:  Annual
• Related to:  Chuseok (Korea), Tsukimi (Japan), Tết Trung Thu (Vietnam), Uposatha of Ashvini or Krittika (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Thailand)