This Chinese equivalent to the West’s Harvest Moon Festival (also known as Mid autumn festivals) is one of the loveliest nights of the year. Part of the celebrations commemorate a 14th-Century uprising against the Mongols when rebels wrote the call to revolt on pieces of paper and embedded them in cakes which they smuggled to compatriots.

Today, during the festival, people eat special sweet cakes known as “Chinese mooncakes” made of ground lotus and sesame. Along with the cakes, shops sell coloured Chinese paper lanterns in the shapes of animals, and more recently, in the shapes of aeroplanes and space ships. On this family occasion parents allow children to stay up late, and take them to high vantage points to light their lanterns and watch the huge autumn moon rise before eating their moon cakes. Public parks are a blaze with many thousands of lanterns in all colours and sizes and shapes in welcoming the Moon cakes festival.

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Mid-Autumn Festival:
Based on Lunar calendar tradition, the seventh, eighth and ninth months is autumn. During fall, the skies are commonly clear and cloudless and the nights crisp and sharp. In these night sky conditions, the moon appears to be the brightest. The fifteenth of the eighth month is the middle of autumn, thus the festival celebrates the moon’s appearance as the brightest and most beautiful throughout the year.
The Festival This Year:
In 2008 the mooncakes festival fell on September 14, and was observed on the 15th, just a few weeks before the beginning of the October holidays starting October first, marking National Day, the date of the founding of the PRC on October 1, 1949.
Symbolism:
The full moon is traditionally a symbol for reunion, tuanyuan, as yuan means round. The Chinese people celebrate by coming together as families to eat with Chinese mooncake, drink and be merry.
Early Beginnings of the Mid-Autumn Festival:

Enjoying the moon is an ancient tradition in China going back nearly 1,400 years. Visit any historical palace or classical garden and you will very likely find a “Moon Viewing Pavilion” or two. It is lovely to think about actually, isn’t it? Taking time with your friends and family to sit outside under a starless sky, gazing at the round white orb shining brightly from the heavens above, is something we, in this century, ought to schedule in our daytimers.
Festival History:
While celebrating the moon during Mid autumn festivals appears to have occurred since Zhou Dynasty (ending in 221BC ) times, it was during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) that the festival was made official. Becoming grander over time, by Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) times, the mid-autumn festival was second only in importance to the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year).

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