1, What is Mid-Autumn Festival?

To the Chinese, Mid-Autumn Festival means family reunion and peace. The festival is celebrated when the moon is believed to be the biggest and fullest. To the Chinese , a full moon is a symbol of prosperity, happiness, and family reunion.

For China people, Mid-Autumn Festival means reunion and peace. People think that the moon in Mid-Autumn Festival is the biggest and roundest. The full moon symbolizes prosperity, happiness and reunion.

2. How do people in China celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival?

Many traditional and meaningful celebrations are held in most households in China, and China's neighboring countries. The main traditions and celebrations include eating mooncakes, having dinner with family, gazing at and worshipping the moon, and lighting lanterns.

Most families in China and China's neighbors will hold many traditional celebrations, including eating moon cakes, having a reunion dinner, enjoying the moon and lighting lanterns.

3. The origin of Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of over 3,000 years, dating back to moon worship in the Shang Dynasty ( 1600– 1046 BC) . It’s such an important festival that many poems were written about it, stories and legends about the festival are widespread, and its origins have been guessed at and explained by generations of Chinese.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has a history of more than 3,000 years, which can be traced back to the worship of the moon in Shang Dynasty. Because of the important position of the Mid-Autumn Festival, poets in all previous dynasties wrote poems for it. Stories and legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival were widely circulated among the people, and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival was also explored by China people in all previous dynasties.