Fall Festival

MOON FESTIVAL

The Chinese Moon Festival is on the 15th of the 8th lunar month. It's also known as the Mid-autumn Festival. Just like Christmas and Thanksgiving in the West, the Moon Festival is one of the most important traditional events for the Chinese.Why the festival called Moon festival and very famous in China? This is because the festival has a legend story. This storey says that a long time ago, Chang Er flew to the moon, where she has lived ever since. It is believed that people can see her dancing during The Moon Festivals. Also, Chinese think much of their own culture and traditional. The Moon Festival is also an occasion for family reunions. When the full moon rises, families get together to watch the full moon, eat moon cakes, and sing moon poem.The moon cake is the food for the Moon Festival.The Moon Festival is often compared to a sort of “Chinese Thanksgiving”because of its spirit of gratitude and its inclusion of abundant food — including the popular moon cake. Moon cakes are flaky, round, semi-sweet pastries often filled with bean or lotus-seed paste and topped with a duck egg, echoing the shape of the full moon. Many millions of moon cakes are gifted around the time of the Moon Festival.There are a hundred kinds of moon cakes and they are showing improvement every year. The Chinese eat the moon cake at night with the full moon in the skyems. The moon festival is a day that Chinese stop working. It's a holiday in China. If you go to China on that day, almost people might be at home and enjoy in the bosom of their family. It' a special day in China!