Moon Festival 中秋节

The ancient China had their own calendar, call peasant's calendar or lunar calendar. As the name suggesting, it's the guide for farming. There are 13 months in a year, telling the seasonal weather, peasants follow this calendar to work on their fields.

The modern time, Chinese use the general calendar instead of their traditional calendar, but still keep the traditional festivals to celebrate, like Lunar year (sprint festival), Moon festival, etc, but the specific date is different every year in the general calendar. This year, Moon Festival is Sep 27, 2015.

The reason for celebrate is,  the moon in this day is the biggest and brightest, and the ancient Chinese people believe there are fairies on the moon, everything is beautiful.

Moon cake is indispensable food in this day, the tastes are various depending the area in China, usually Canton, Beijing and Shanghai styles are the most popular tastes, the ingredients are flour, sugar, bean, water lily seed, nut, yolk and meet, etc. Cheers!

Click the Chinese word to learn the pronunciation.
中秋节快乐
中 = mid
秋 = autumn
节 = festival
快乐 = happy