One: Korea
Mid-Autumn Festival is called "Autumn Evening", "Mid-Autumn Festival" or "Kano Day" in Korea. On this day, people will go to the grave and offer sacrifices to their ancestors with newly harvested grains and fruits. You will also eat muffins, a kind of food specially made for Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition, the whole family will get together to dance and enjoy the moon.
Second: Japan
Japan calls the Mid-Autumn Festival fifteen nights, and the Japanese will hold a celebration banquet when enjoying the moon, which is called the "Moon Appreciation Banquet". Eating glutinous rice dumplings at a banquet is called "watching dumplings on the moon". Because this period is the harvest season of various crops, the Japanese will also hold various celebrations to express their gratitude to nature.
Third: Thailand
Thais call Mid-Autumn Festival "Prayer for the New Year". At this time of the year, every household uses sugarcane as an arch, and all men, women and children will go to Yue Bai together. The table of Mid-Autumn Festival is dedicated to the "Eight-hole Immortal" in China folklore, and filled with delicious food such as "Shoutao" and "Moon Cake".
Four: Malaysia
In Malaysia, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest Chinese festival besides the Spring Festival. After a long period of development and evolution, Malaysian Mid-Autumn Festival customs are quite different from those in China. Besides eating moon cakes, the most important activity for people is the lantern parade. On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Penang, a famous Chinese settlement in Malaysia, is holding a lantern show to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. Dragon and lion dances are essential in the parade. Children hold lanterns in one hand and walk past the parade with their mothers in the other.
Different countries will have different Mid-Autumn Festival to light up the whole heaven. If you have the chance, you can try to go to other countries to try different Mid-Autumn Festival.