Celebration

The mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated by Chinese and some other Asian cultures. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. On this night, the full moon wil be the roundest, biggest and brightest and if you are lucky it will smile at you.

There are many old stories about this festival. And there are many different ways to celebrate it.  As society develops and transforms the ways in which people celebrate it are changing. No matter how society changes, people think the most important thing is gathering together to have fun and enjoy. Family and friends come together to have dinner, to give thanks for the good life, to pray for a better future.  It's about well being together.

After the dinner, people will go out doors to eat moon cakes and watch the moon.  In Chinese culture, a round shape symbolizes completeness and reunion. Thus, people will share and eat round moon cakes among family members during the week of the festival.

A notable part of celebrating this holiday is lighting lanterns. Some people like floating sky lanterns. Some others will write riddles on the lanterns and have other people try to guess the answers. 

In one word, it will be bright on that night and you will be happy.