It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is supposedly at its fullest and roundest.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes under the moon together also carrying brightly lit lanterns.
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