Moon Festival
September 10
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, is observed September 10.
According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the 15th day of the 8th month of the year (which lands on September 10th in 2022) marks the second largest festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival, sometimes called the Mooncake Festival, has been bringing families together through multiple dynasties and for thousands of years.
Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is also called the Moon Festival or the Mooncake Festival. It is the second most important festival in China after Chinese New Year. It is also celebrated by many other Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
In modern times, people mainly celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival as a time for family reunions much like how Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. The moon on the night of Mid-Autumn Festival is the brightest and the most beautiful. Chinese people usually set a table outside their houses and sit together to admire the full moon while enjoying tasty mooncakes and lighting lanterns as a family.
Parents with little kids often tell the legend of Chang’e Flying to the Moon.
Read more about the festival and Chinese traditions here.
Author Grace Lin
Grace followed that success with the publication of over a dozen more books, including DIM SUM FOR EVERYONE! and LISSY’S FRIENDS. Grace’s first children’s novel, THE YEAR OF THE DOG was released to glowing praise in 2006 and nominated to the TX Bluebonnet list, which she followed with THE YEAR OF THE RAT. Her novel WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON was awarded the 2010 Newbery Honor, chosen for Al Roker’s Today Show Kid’s Book Club and was a NY Times Bestseller. Grace’s early reader LING & TING was awarded with the Theodor Geisel Honor in 2011 and her picture book A BOOK MOONCAKE FOR LITTLE STAR was awarded the 2019 Caldecott Honor.
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