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the midautumn festival also known as the moon festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by chinese people and vietnamese people (even though they celebrate it differently) dating back over 3000 years to moon worship in china's shang dynasty it was first called zhongqiu jie in zhou dynasty in malaysia and singapore it is also sometimes referred to as the lantern festival or mooncake festival
legend about midautumn festival
it is said that the earth once had ten suns circling over it each taking turn to illuminate the earth one day however all ten suns appeared
together scorching the earth with their heat houyi a strong and tyrannical archer saved the earth by shooting down nine of the suns he eventually became king but grew to become a despot
one day houyi stole the elixir (xiān dān 仙丹) from a goddess however his beautiful wife chang'e (嫦娥) drank it so as to save the people from her husband’s tyrannical rule after drinking it she found herself floating and flew to the moon houyi loved his divinely beautiful wife so much he did not shoot down the moon chang'e flew to the moon grabbing a rabbit to keep her company so the chinese say that if you look up at the moon to this day you can sometimes see a rabbit making moon cakes
customs in midautumn festival
the midautumn festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the chinese calendar which is usually around mid or late september in the gregorian calendar it is a date that parallels the autumn and spring equinoxes (
春分) of the solar calendar when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest the traditional food of this festival is the mooncake of which there are many different varieties
the midautumn festival is one of the two most important holidays in chinese calendar the other being the chinese new year and is a legal holiday in several countries farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvest season on this day traditionally on midautumn day chinese family members and friends will get together to admire the bright midautumn harvest moon and eat moon cakes ( 月饼) and pomeloes (柚子) together accompanying the celebration there are additional cultural or regional customs such as eating moon cakes outside under the moon carrying brightly lit lanterns lighting lanterns on towers floating sky lanterns burning incense (焚香) in reverence to deities including chang'e planting midautumn trees (树中秋) collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members and fire dragon dances (舞火龙)
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